John Updike Quotes

My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.

John Logan

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The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.

John McEnroe

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Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

Robert Gottlieb

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Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Stafford Cripps

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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Simon Schama

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I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Ron Rash

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The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Rush Limbaugh

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The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of 'The Interview' are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.

Michael Lynton

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If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.

Jason Fried

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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

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Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.

Bruce Springsteen

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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Alfred Nobel

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