Up To You Quotes - Page 16

• It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

  Pamela Anderson

  People, Surprise, Easier

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Way, Pity, Certain

  "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Responsibility, Important

  "Interview: Julie Andrews Reflects on Writing, Reading, Libraries, and Film". Interview with Leonard Kniffel, americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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• Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Hands, Play, Yang

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• I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

  John Zorn

  Art, Believe, Giving

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

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• Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

  Amy Poehler

  Awards, People, Ends

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Dream, Strong

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• Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

  Teresa Mummert

  Fighting, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Apr 19, 2012

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• as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Loneliness, Law

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• My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.

  Marion Barry

  Gay, Simple, Views

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

  Jane Fonda

  Writing, Scary, Pages

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.

  Debra Granik

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Crazy, Trouble, Should

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

  Mau Piailug

  Teaching, Men, Two

  "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

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• I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'

  John Cena

  Loyalty, Dad, Children

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

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• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Change, Kings, People

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• I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

  Leona Lewis

  Taken, People, Kind

  "QA: New Leona Lewis CD echos growth, strength". Interview, newsok.com. November 16, 2009.

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• You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Mean, Form

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.87, Macmillan

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• ... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

  Leonard Cohen

  Falling In Love, Passing, Back And Forth

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.148, McClelland & Stewart

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• It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

  Isaac Asimov

  Mirrors, People, Common Sense

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Spectra

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• My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

  Elise Broach

  Dad, People, Helping

  Elise Broach (2007). “Shakespeare's secret”

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• You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Loss, Winning, Faces

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

  Ray Bradbury

  Responsibility, Too Late, Goes On

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• Well, I guess I’m just not as special as you are. (Urian) No one knows their true mettle until it’s been tested. This is yours. Whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. I can’t tell you what to do, but I know where I’ll be tonight. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Special, Tonight, Failing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.273, Macmillan

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• When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?

  Helen Fielding

  Missing, Together, Add

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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