John Updike Quotes

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Topics

ScienceScience FictionNeedKid

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

Maya Hawke

ParentsBraveGrowEnoughYouLucky

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

Mayim Bialik

WorkYouNowUsedFilmDifferent

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

Anna Kendrick

MeFeelBodyBecauseWellDifferent

Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.

Aneurin Barnard

WorkSuccessHappinessWork HardYou

When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.

Sophia Amoruso

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There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.

Dimitar Sasselov

LifeMePotentialUniversePowerful

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.

Dee Dee Ramone

MeGrowing UpWeirdGrowingGroup

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Colm Toibin

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As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.

Clemantine Wamariya

LifeStrengthChildSisterControl

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

Claudette Colbert

MeSoundAlwaysSeeLikeGlad

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Bruno Heller

LifePositiveFamilyMy LifeKind

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

FatherMotherPerfectAlwaysEven

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