Up Quotes
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
Rachel Joyce
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
Bam Margera
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Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
Ram Shriram
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I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
Daniel Silva
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
Martin Mull
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I think actors worry too much about age. They should just get out there and make sure they're up for whatever jobs come along.
Neil Morrissey
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
Queen Latifah
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My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'
Jake Tapper
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
Samuel E. Morison
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber
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I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.
Jennifer Egan
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I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!
Gabby Douglas
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Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.
Walt Whitman
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
Macaulay Culkin
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
Randy Schekman
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
