John Updike Quotes

It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.

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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That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

Joe Wright

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I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.

Joel Grey

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I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

Andy Cohen

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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

John Hodgman

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I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.

Angourie Rice

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No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

Siobhan Fahey

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I hate Gordon Ramsay's programmes: I don't know if he's been told it makes good television.

Mary Berry

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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Lou Holtz

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I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

Logan Lerman

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There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

Denis Lavant

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It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Armand Assante

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