John Updike Quotes

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

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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There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Jim Parsons

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Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GreatBeginningAmericanYouLabor

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird.

Skrillex

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Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter.

Lizz Wright

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Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Doc Hastings

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You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Dick Gephardt

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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

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The most effective way to preach the gospel is through example. If we live according to our beliefs, people will notice.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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What is right is not always popular.

Allison Tolman

RightAlwaysPopular

Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful.

Peter Morgan

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