Up Quotes
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since.
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When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
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Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.
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Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.
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I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
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In 2013, I had the chance to try cross-country skiing on snow and just fell in love with being in nature and how hard it was to pick up the sport. And the snow is sparkly.
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You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
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I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
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Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!
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Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.You know it doesn't seem fair,That I'm living for something I can't even define.And there you are right there, in the mean time.
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Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.
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My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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I really didn't know it would feel this emotional. Everybody was excited, especially these seniors. They went four years without beating these guys, but we made up for everything tonight.
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The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
