Get Up Quotes - Page 19

• In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

  Milton Berle

  Men, Three, Speak

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• Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Winning, Trying, Sound

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• You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  War, Redneck, Church

  CMT Awards, 2007.

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• It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Cutting, Needs, Sand

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• I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it!

  The Miz

  Kids, Men, Should Have

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• I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

  Ethan Hawke

  Nice, Sunrise, Sigh

  "Ethan Hawke: What I've Learned About Life...and Marriage". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 16, 2013.

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• The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Laughing, Comedian, Style

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• I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me, it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Dna, Acting

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

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• I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

  Jon Heder

  Stories, Want, Clean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

  Glen Hansard

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• I'll be goddamned if I'm going to stay in a business where I have to get up earlier and earlier and it takes longer and longer for me to get in front of a camera.

  Grace Kelly

  Cameras, Ifs, Fronts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Awards, People

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  Jackie Cooper

  Morning, Home, Night

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• The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

  Michael York

  Humor, Python, Play

  "Interview: Michael York actor". www.askmen.com.

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• My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always Out of the house! There was no watching television on weekends.

  Anna Torv

  Mom, Horse, Weekend

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• You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

  Martin Mull

  Morning, Thinking, Long

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• Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

  Audie Murphy

  Running, Firsts, Scared

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• Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

  Groucho Marx

  Believe, Up Early, Bed

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Spring, Secret

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.

  Newt Gingrich

  Morning, Reality, Thinking

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• What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.

  Michael Buerk

  Taken, Government, Issues

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• We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s great. Everybody loves life in its mundane, daily aspects. It’s what makes us feel secure. But I also start to go numb a little bit and I don’t see what’s around me. So I put myself in a new situation and suddenly I’m really seeing the person next to me, hearing music, and I’m smelling, and I can’t help but want to write it down.

  Dorianne Laux

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• Someone spoke to me last night,
  told me the truth. Just a few words,
  but I recognized it.
  I knew I should make myself get up,
  write it down, but it was late,
  and I was exhausted from working
  all day in the garden, moving rocks.

  Dorianne Laux

  Moving, Writing, Night

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Sweet, Moving, Writing

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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