Up Quotes
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I rang up this publisher and they asked me what I was doing at the time. I told them I was a house-painter, so first of all they had me come round and paint the place. Only later did they consider my work and Banished Misfortune was published.
Dermot Healy
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I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I didn't want to feel the fear of poverty again, and I suppose, in that way, I qualify as Thatcher Youth.
Abi Morgan
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I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
Lee Majors
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I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.
Cam Newton
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I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
David Antin
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When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.
John Madden
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White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.
Yance Ford
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There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.
Amy Heckerling
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Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.
Joe R. Lansdale
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I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'
George Best
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It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
Marlo Thomas
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By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.'
Nell Scovell
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I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
Blake Shelton
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I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
Jim Evans
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Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
Margot Kidder
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Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.
T. E. D. Klein
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Every fight, honest to say, in this division, at this level, is a toss-up. It's a 50-50 chance.
Alistair Overeem
