Up Quotes

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

Garth Nix
- Work
- Writing
- Sales
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

Aaron Paul
- School
- Growing
- Team

I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.

Adam Ferrara
- Done
- Know
- Doing
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

Chris Rock
- Up
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

iO Tillett Wright
- People
- Music
- Together
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- People
- School
- High
I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.

Chris Milk
- Up
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

Edmund White
- Time
- Long
- City