Up Quotes
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When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.
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Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." "Shut up" Claire said.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.
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The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
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If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks.
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When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
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Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.
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I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but more something that was going on within me.
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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.
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Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.
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I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.
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It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.
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I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'
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My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
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I'm from Georgia and grew up eating Chick-fil-A. I'm obsessed with all forms of fried chicken, like chicken briskets and chicken sandwiches.
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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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If I'm not in work, I don't wear any make-up.
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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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 started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.
