Up Quotes
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As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.
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Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
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Every game we played them (Dallas) was close, other than the last game. Actually we were up 19 points in that game, and we let them come back and beat us, we know we can win a game there. I think for us, it's can we finish games?
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I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
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I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.
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Each word is pumped up with consonant cholesterol. It's full of fat words. The pages cream with subcutaneous fat. New letters are gilded like showy teeth, making comprehension constipated and exorbitantly metalled.
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I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.
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Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
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I feel like the networks always end up doing similar stuff at the same time.
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I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.
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I won't watch that Amir fight from now until I fight Alvarez. I'm not a blown up 147 or a Miguel Cotto. I'm a big 154 lb., and I'm coming of age and coming to win.
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I feel like I'm in a weird state, and I wake up in Hollywood, and I've got a couple of studio movies underneath my belt, and I take these meetings with people. Sometimes it's this great, weird sense of oddness that comes at you, because I've never really stopped thinking the way that I started thinking.
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If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page.
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The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
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Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
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When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
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Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.
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Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.
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Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.
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I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
