Up Quotes
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Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you've grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective.
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I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.
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To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.
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In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.
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Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I'd fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as 'He's going to fight again.' It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again.
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When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'
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The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)
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But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year, And a sphere.
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Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.
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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.
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The older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.
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I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
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The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
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All three of us - two sisters and a brother - were brought up with an emphasis on academics.
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I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
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When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
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People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we're more comfortable with.
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I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
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Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.
