Up Quotes
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I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
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This is no game. You get up in there, and you take some punches. You risk your life, and then let me see you talk then. That's why I don't respect people who criticize fighters.
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There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.
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Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
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After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
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I would say to you, have faith in yourself - believe in what you are doing, and, most important, be a person of integrity. It is totally up to you, and no one else, how your life evolves.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.
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My mum never put those fashion ideals into the house. I didn't wear make-up, and I had my hair all frizzy.
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As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
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This time if you want me to come back, it's up to you.But remember I won't allow the things you used to do.You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line;This time will be the last time.
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There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.
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I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
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I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
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I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.
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I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'
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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
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I was always a tomboy growing up in Africa.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
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It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
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I'd eat, eat, eat, not exercise, go to sleep, eat and eat. I looked up in the mirror and said I had to make a change if I was going to continue to live.
