Up Quotes
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Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.
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I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.
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I used to wear long jumpers, but they made me look like a bag tied up in the middle.
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I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.
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We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.
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After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company.
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The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
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Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.
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Everyone works hard for each other, and if we're having an off day, everyone else is there to pick things up.
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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
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I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
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I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.
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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
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When I'm sick, all I want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep for days!
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I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
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I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.
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People feel like they know me, in a strange way, like they grew up with me or they went to high school with me!
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A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'
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Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.
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Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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It's sad when people break up.
