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John Updike Quotes

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Looking Publishers Loves

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

Life Football People You Why Should

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

Robert Grosseteste

Seed You Know Kind Soil Land

You can certainly draw a picture of 2016 which makes it look like the 1930s, which, of course, is what everyone is doing.

Picture Doing You Look Everyone

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

Michael Douglas

Marriage Myself Up Rehab Save Wound

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.

Night Energy Wish Doing Plan See

That's why, to this day, K.I.S.S. can sell out wherever they go... because they sell tickets, and they have that core fan base. You may not hear K.I.S.S. on the radio with a new single today. And they can still sell out anywhere.

Today Day You Go New Why

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and very fast, and so all of us submerged into the deep end and only really came up for air once we had wrapped.

Deep End Fast Air Everything Days

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Government Constitution Wrong Liberty

Until you have a child, you won't really understand that you would actually throw yourself in front of a bus for your child. Like, you don't really get it. Like, it's like, 'Hell no.' You know, 'She's only two. I can make another one.' You know? But, you know, you have a baby, and then you actually care about this person.

Yourself Child Baby Care Hell You

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

Jayne Mansfield

Perseverance Coffee You Will More

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

World Born Changes Always Everything

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Women Words Thrive Edgy Never Curse

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