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John Updike Quotes

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Tennis Drop Different Grip Overhead

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Jessica Savitch

Life Events Real Real Life Seem

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

Meaghan Jette Martin

Think Everyone Degree Accepted Wants

I'm no real expert on China.

Real Expert China

I hate to give myself credit for anything, but I will say I really enjoy, as an actor, and especially with comedy stuff, playing with different rhythms and with different ways around a joke. There's always an obvious route, and there's one that maybe is a little bit different.

Myself Hate Comedy Credit Enjoy Say

I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.

Myself Money Three Pay Half Million

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.

Live Creative Me Dinner World Think

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

Family Best Enough Year Find Goal

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

Children Budget Security More Thanks

The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

Family Father Place Important

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

Education School America New Why

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

Drunk Dangerous Persuasive Driver He

I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

Chord Overstreet

You Know Want Because Icon Anybody

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