Up Quotes

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Long
  • Path

• I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Record

• I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Sometimes
  • Try
  • Stairs

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • House
  • Stop
  • Said

• I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'

  

  Sia LSD
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Dance

• I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • American
  • Nature
  • Attitude

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Growing
  • Baby
  • Growing Up

• I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's.

  

  Amy Childs
  • Up
  • Food

• Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Time
  • Job
  • Kids

• Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Why
  • Friend
  • California

• The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Important
  • Long
  • Job

• I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!

  

  Bob Hope
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Friends
  • Growing
  • Singing

• Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Week

• My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Good
  • Age
  • House

• I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Up
  • Monster

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Game
  • Skills

• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  

  Alan Bradley
  • Great
  • Family
  • House

• When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you're 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.

  

  Darius Khondji
  • Up
  • Light

• When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Day

• Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Fear

• I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.'

  

  John McEnroe
  • God
  • Guy
  • Player

• I think it is up to the judge to say what the Constitution provided, even if what it provided is not the best answer, even if you think it should be amended. If that's what it says, that's what it says.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Up
  • Judge

• My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Opportunity

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