John Updike Quotes

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

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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People are really interested in economic security.

Jim Gray

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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Joel Hodgson

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'Star Trek' tends to take itself a little too seriously. They were either very dramatic shows, or if we did a humorous show, it was always a little like, 'Oh, we're doing humor on 'Star Trek,'' especially on the original series.

Robert Picardo

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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robin G. Collingwood

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I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person.

Rod Stewart

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It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

Jose Bergamin

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Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.

Courtney Barnett

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Sometimes I see myself in the mirror, and it's 'Oh, God!' But the minute you stick out your butt a little bit and suck it in, you go from a 6 to a 10.

Cindy Margolis

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Arthur Helps

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I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

Antony Sher

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When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

Allan McNish

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