Upstairs Quotes - Page 6

• I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  Rafe Spall

  Drama, School, Play

  "Rafe Spall: from fat to fit". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.

  Carrie Fisher

  Baby, Anchors, Pie

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

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• Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

  Roberta Flack

  Music, Heart, Firsts

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• When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]

  Claire Messud

  Mother, Love You, Thinking

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• There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Men, People, Dying

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• The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

  Mario Andretti

  Men, Names, Pushing

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Divorce, Dark

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

  Stephen Fry

  Sleep, Doors, Sneak In

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.48, Soho Press

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• The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?

  Warren Leight

  Husband, Drama, Games

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

  Warren Beatty

  Trust, Thinking, Law

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

  Keeley Hawes

  Beautiful, People, Looks

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Might, Checks, Basements

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• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

  Robert Hughes

  Music, Tired, Player

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• In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Airplane, Good Luck, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.

  Dani Shapiro

  Morning, Coffee, Iphone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

  Winona Ryder

  Advice, Mermaid, Teens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

  Don DeLillo

  Fire, House, Alarms

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

  Ayn Rand

  Uplifting, Sky, Peculiar

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.713, Penguin

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• I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

  Michelle Dockery

  Past, Class, People

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

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• My husband would say my signature dish is pasta with a tin of tuna plonked on top. So, no. Although I make a good bangers and mash. I have been known to stick cocktail umbrellas in it, take a photo and send it to James upstairs with a text saying, 'Your food's ready'.

  Joanna Page

  Husband, Cocktails, Sticks

  "Joanna Page: 'Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him'". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Trying, Comfort

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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