Up Quotes
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This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
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Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.
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I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.
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I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
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coming away from the doctor's after a check-up Get interested is the advice, but in truth you are interested in less and less. It's Nature's way.
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America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
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There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
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In New York, a 13-year-old Indian girl came up to me crying, saying to everyone nearby, 'This is where I come from.' It's easy to forget that actors have the ability to instill a sense of self in viewers. That's the greatest compliment.
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Ultimately, refiners, like all of us, are going to have to clean up their emissions.
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My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, 'this child will either end up on stage or in jail.' Fortunately, I took the easy route.
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I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
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I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.
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I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
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I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.
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I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.
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As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.
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A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
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I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
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The word 'Playboy' alone doesn't exactly give most women a warm, fuzzy feeling, yet many of the Playboy photos end up in the most praised photo and art magazines and in critically acclaimed photo exhibitions.
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I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
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I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger, and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores, so... vintage was like a step up.
