Up Quotes
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This house I grew up in was built in the 1800s, and the back yard was like a cemetery. Naturally, I grew up in an environment where ghosts and supernatural things were very unnerving to me, because my brothers and I dealt with it on a daily basis.
Adam Wingard
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
Alec Guinness
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To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.
Dave Franco
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It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
Brian K. Vaughan
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It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Both my parents are artists, so that just makes me look at everything slightly different. I listened to different music; I dressed differently. So I kind of grew up without following the pack.
Jason Momoa
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I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.
Donald Hall
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I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
Joan Smalls
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Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
Andrew Dominik
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I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
Benazir Bhutto
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When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.
Masaharu Morimoto
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Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
Dwyane Wade
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I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family where my mom is Christian and Caucasian, my dad is Jewish, my sister is Mexican and I don't know, I don't tan so well. I think I'm mostly Irish.
Andrew Breitbart
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I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in 'The Goodwin Games'... it did make me wish that was an experience that I had.
Adam Rodriguez
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
Charlie Pierce
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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Art Hoppe
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I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.
Peter Sis
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
