Up Quotes
-
My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
-
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!
-
She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.
-
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
-
That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.
-
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
-
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
-
I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
-
As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.
-
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
-
Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.
-
If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.
-
I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.
-
When I had kids, I had to work out how to keep my stamina up. I learned the power of protein and eating a variety of foods.
-
Night's son was drivingHis golden-haired horses up;Over the eastern firthsHigh flashed their manes.
-
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
-
Culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns - customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters - as has, by and large, been the case up to now, but as a set of control mechanisms - plans, recipes, rules, instructions (what computer engineers call 'programs') - for the governing of behavior.
-
I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That's where I really started playing all sports, and that's why I'm a big advocate for the work they do.
-
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
-
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
-
Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
-
Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
-
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
-
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
