Making Up Quotes - Page 6

• As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Fun, Character

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• If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Mean, Rights

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• People should be allowed to express their opinion. But, Americans need to know I'll be making up my mind based upon the latest intelligence and how best to protect our own country, plus our friends and allies.

  George W. Bush

  Country, People, Mind

  "Bush defends planning on Iraq", www.cnn.com. August 16, 2002.

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• I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.

  Leslie Pietrzyk

  Dream, Real, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Character, Plot

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

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• I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

  Ruth Glick

  Jobs, Hero, Best Job

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• I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

  Meg Cabot

  Notebook, Home, Kids

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

  James Fallows

  Military, Party, Names

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• I think the biggest pushback comes from people who perceive me to be a threat. Having bloggers who are dedicated to making up false information about you, having anonymous people write nasty emails and letters, having organizations file legal requests for your work-related emails, and all the other things that happen can be very depressing and discouraging.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Depressing, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really next level genius cryptic weirdos. And then I realized when I got older they are just using a lot of British words, and I didn't know what they meant. But I thought, Oh, they are making up their own language.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Next Level, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

  Edie Brickell

  Easter, Crazy, Eggs

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• One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

  John Lasseter

  Fun, Play, Stories

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• I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

  Suzanne Vega

  Character, Stories, Inventing

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• Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

  Cordell Hull

  Government, Years, One Day

  Remarks in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505, April 26, 1913.

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• I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Adventure, Games

  "This Ames is True". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2011.

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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• People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

  Joss Stone

  Country, People, Tea

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• I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Driving, Restriction

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

  Patsy Cline

  Thinking, Mind, Stage

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• Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

  William Gibson

  Character, Giving, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

  Carolyn Chute

  People, Mind, Littles

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• All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Lying, Writing, Sound

  "Comics Q&A: Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 1, 2008.

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• Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Giving Up, Target

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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