Up Quotes

• For me, having a daughter made me much more efficient and productive. I would wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to organize my day so that I could get home. The phone calls with friends, the lunches out with colleagues - all of that got scrapped so that I could be as efficient and productive as possible.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Friends

• I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Action

• When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Up

• I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Up
  • Religious
  • Gay

• Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Mind
  • Night
  • Worth

• I grew up in a film-loving family. We watched the Oscars every year. My favorite thing in the whole world was film. The Oscars obviously was the holy grail.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they're really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that's my terrible workout. I know that's not really a workout.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Workout

• After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Couple
  • Weird

• I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Up
  • Road

• Apple's big weakness is its control-freak nature and insistence that there is only one way to make a smart phone. No matter how many carriers sign on to carry the iPhone, in the long run, Apple has again set itself up to be a niche player in smartphones, just as it is in PCs.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Control

• Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Joy

• I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

  

  Allan Carr
  • Up
  • Frustration

• I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Proud

• If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

  

  Anita Hill
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Christian

• You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up

• I enjoy getting an artist at the beginning stages, and then I'm able to pull out something that is so pure and actually create their individual style. From how they pick up the microphone, to how to look on the stage, to their dance steps, to their talk, their opinions, to what they wear, so it really gets to be developed from the beginning.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Style
  • Beginning
  • Dance

• I've basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn't see myself moving there. That feeling exists for my mother and people of her generation. They say, 'Hopefully, one day.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • America
  • Mother

• I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Up
  • Different

• Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Strong

• I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Grit

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