Up Quotes
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Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
Doris Lessing
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I want to get on base every single time I get up there. Whether it's a walk or a base hit, I really don't care how I want to get on base. I just want to be on.
Bryce Harper
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Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
Jocko Willink
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Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people.
John Scalzi
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The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
Lisa Madigan
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When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!
Lynda Barry
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Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.
Anna Paquin
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If I ask for money, all I get is advice. But if I ask for advice, I end up getting money.
John Quelch
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It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.
Alan Stern
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I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.
Ashley McBryde
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I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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I want to bring meaningful conversations to the table, and I want to shake some things up.
Andy Mineo
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Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
Alex Gibney
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A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.
Pierce Brosnan
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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
Alison Krauss
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Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
Lupita Nyong'o
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You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'
Maria Shriver
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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that's just not in me.
Eddie Alvarez
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I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.
Asa Butterfield
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I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.
Joanna Newsom
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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
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If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.
Brett Favre
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I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.
Art Alexakis