Come Up Quotes - Page 17

• One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

  Matthew Reilly

  Book, Writing, Careers

  Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Great Zoo of China”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.

  Jared Leto

  Song, Winning, Video

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• It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Stories, Way

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• If I listen long enough, the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Long, Adequate

  "The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur".

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• If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Taken, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Imagine

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• You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Sheep, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.39, New World Library

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• I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

  Raven-Symone

  Beautiful, People, Weight

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
  Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

  Paul Krugman

  Skills, Offering, Complaining

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• I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

  Thom Yorke

  Monday, Mean, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

  Amy Adams

  Jobs, Mean, Actresses

  "An interview with Amy Adams". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 8, 2003.

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• I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Mean Girls, Who I Am, Ideas

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• Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

  Leah Remini

  Men, Numbers, Conversation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  Harry Shearer

  Sleep, Kids, Writing

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• I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it.

  Sienna Miller

  Men, Thinking, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Into the Woods" was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

  Bernadette Peters

  Running, Kids, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

  Lexa Doig

  School, Brain, Wanted

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4050, Delphi Classics

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• [A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Opportunity, Talking, Differences

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• I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

  Coleman Young

  Moving, Years, Sometimes

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• The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

  Andrew Keen

  Media, Interesting, World

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• The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Ocean, Vacation, Ice Cream

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• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  James Gunn

  Ideas, Dozen, Brilliant

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