Up Quotes
-
The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.
-
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
-
Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
-
I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?
-
So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
-
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
-
I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
-
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-
I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
-
I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
-
My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
-
I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
-
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
-
I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
-
Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.
-
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
-
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
-
I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.
-
When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.
-
When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.
-
If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.
-
There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
-
In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.
-
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
