Up Quotes
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I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.
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When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
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'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.
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I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.
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Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.
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Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
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Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.
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I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.
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When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
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Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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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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When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.
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I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.
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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.
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And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
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I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.
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I think it's fun to dress up, although sometimes you do get a little tired of it, but I definitely try to have a different look every day.
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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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Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at.
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Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
