John Updike Quotes

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

John Fogerty

ProudDemonsKnowBeenSongsBeaten

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.

Mayer Hawthorne

LoveBrainNeverWouldPickKelly

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Stephen Sondheim

MotherWomanMeAmbitionHandsShe

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

Brenda Laurel

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One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.

Bryan Callen

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I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.

Brian Setzer

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I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Anthony Michael Hall

ResponsibilityManWorldSomeone

It's hard to give specific advice because there's so many different types of animals. In making movies, you just have to figure out what type of animal you are and then find the road.

Anthony Russo

AnimalRoadAdviceYouFindMovies

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Norman Jewison

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Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

Norah Jones

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