Up Quotes
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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
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Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
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People think we just wake up looking perfect, but it's all about the hair and the make-up, staying in shape, and eating healthily.
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If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
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When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.
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I think that what is always true when you run against an incumbent president is, is that you end up talking more about that president's record than your vision for the future, and I think that the Democrats do have to present a proactive agenda and vision for the country and not simply run against something if they're going to be successful.
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I love to be comfortable, but I also love to play up the glamour.
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I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
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My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
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Growing up, I learnt to think, 'Let's make it a big night tonight, as you never know what's going to happen next.' So now I have enough, I take too much; when I get the chance to have a fine dinner, I will. And it's had an effect on my health.
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I don't like when people seem to put every single thing on and just walk up and down outside waiting to be photographed. I think that's a bit lame.
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With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
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That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
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It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.
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Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
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In daily life, I'm not a heavy user anyway, but I'm extra careful online because of the kids who look up to me. That's the fun part of being an actor - that kids like you - because they are very pure and transparent in their likes and dislikes. There's no filter like the ones on Instagram.
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I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
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In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.
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Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.
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I'd want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.
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If Turkish or Moroccan boys misbehave here, it's up to us to re-educate them and, when necessary, to punish them.
