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John Updike Quotes

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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New York Space City New Within Only

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Andre Leon Talley

Love Dress People Fashion Never

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

Confident Enough Way Talk Years

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

Truth Animal Sympathy Truth Is You

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

Month Last Taliban Case Which

Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Work Camping Things Differently Very

I get meals when I can, or I have protein shakes.

I Can Meals Protein Get Shakes

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Journey Freedom Courage Stand Battle

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.

Michael Ritchie

Work Job Rest Reading Planning Year

I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.

Decision Money Smart People Choices

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

Perfect Sound Production Beatles

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

Ride Short You Talk Over Late-Night

People find pleasure in hating someone. I think it's the beginning of kali. If someone has betrayed you, it's understandable that you hate them. But hating someone you don't even know... that's something I will never understand.

Hate Beginning People Think Someone

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