Up Quotes
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I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
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You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.
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I was fed up with being just plain Jane.
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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
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Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!
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I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.
Colson Whitehead -
The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.
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The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
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The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.
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Just going out and seeing friends, not being cooped up in my house because I don't want to get my picture taken or anything like that - I've tried to let go of that stuff a bit, accept that it's going to happen to me, and not let it prevent me from doing anything I want to do, which I have in the past.
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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.
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Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.
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I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it - but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural.
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A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
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You should wake up in the morning and say, 'What do I want to do today? What's going to make me happy?'
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If you're given gifts or blessings in your life, it's up to you to help the guy coming up behind you.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.
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I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can get. I always assumed I was going to be an actor. I don't know why. I didn't have any reason to think that. In fact, when I finally did try it, when I was in college, I was really bad at it and didn't enjoy it.
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Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
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Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.
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I grew up admiring Phil Mickelson. He loves competing, and he loves the fans' support, similar to me. In terms of my playing style, Steve Stricker and I are similar.
