Up Quotes

• I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Different
  • Like
  • Africa

• Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

  

  James Lasdun
  • Up
  • Work
  • Holiday

• What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Up
  • Good

• A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Women
  • Real

• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

  

  Gene Siskel
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Women
  • Change
  • Myself

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Everyone

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Energy
  • Band
  • Style

• The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Up

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Brain
  • Thought
  • Snow

• A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

  

  Danny Wallace
  • Work
  • Great
  • Game

• I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Practice

• I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Children
  • True
  • Small

• I love the way Tyra Banks dresses up - she looks so elegant and glamorous in whatever she wears. The confidence and attitude she exudes on and off the ramp is remarkable.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • She
  • Confidence

• I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Life
  • School
  • Sunday

• I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Audience
  • Mirror
  • River

• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Never
  • Horse
  • Fast

• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Progress

• Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Up
  • Food

• You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Growing

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