Up Quotes
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Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.
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I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.
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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.
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I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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...organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.
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So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
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Magic Johnson is my biggest role model and I am his biggest fan. I actually met him recently and ran up to him and said, "man, I am your biggest fan, I'm P.K. Subban," and he said "I know who you are," and I was like, "what!" I was blown away just standing there talking to him and he was so nice.
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When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!
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Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
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I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.
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You don't want one teacher going up against another because money's going to be out there.
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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
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It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.
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People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.
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When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.
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People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.
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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.
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I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
