Get Up Quotes - Page 36

• It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

  Peter Shaffer

  Girl, Horse, Sex

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• It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

  Shepard Smith

  People, Faces, Sometimes

  "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

  Sissy Spacek

  Morning, Reality, Perception

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• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  Kate Voegele

  Unique, Night, Thinking

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• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  Kate Voegele

  Kings, Fun, Feelings

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  Dan Wheldon

  Two, Race, Able

  "Indianapolis 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies After Massive Crash", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

  Gillian Welch

  Hey, Arms, Kind

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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• I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing.

  Gucci Mane

  Fall, Proud, Way

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• When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

  Julie Mehretu

  Mom, Morning, Children

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

  Catherine McCormack

  Devices, My Own, Left

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

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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  Olivia Williams

  Fun, Worry, Age

  "Portrait of the Artist: Olivia Williams, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.

  Ricky Schroder

  Jobs, Next Day, Despair

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2010.

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• We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Morning, Art, Pain

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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• It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.

  Mike Piazza

  Morning, Mean, Sunday

  "Talking God and baseball with Mike Piazza". Interview with Michael Kress, www.seattletimes.com. July 21, 2007.

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• When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

  Gennaro Angiulo

  Guy, Killing

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• I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

  Philip Johnson

  Sleep, Bed, Nine

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• I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

  Martin Parr

  Writing, Phones, Up Early

  "My space". Interview with Edward Mostyn, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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• I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Morning, Coffee, Promise

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• I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.

  Steve McFadden

  Eye, Son, Views

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• On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  Morning, Fishing, Opposites

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• When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Sleep, Water

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• I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Morning, Creative, Desire

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• It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

  Leonard Cohen

  Peace, Morning, Distance

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• I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Alarms, Feels

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• I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

  Connie Chung

  Morning, Mean, Makeup

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