Come Up Quotes - Page 18

• I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Thinking, Guy

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• I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

  William Saroyan

  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

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• Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Eye, Expression

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• So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

  Joseph Beuys

  Stress, Priorities, Different

  Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum (1987). “Warhol/Beuys/Polke”

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• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  PJ Harvey

  Lucky, Way, Obstacles

  "Shy girl or she-wolf? Will the real Polly Harvey please stand up". Interview With Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.

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• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  Terrence Malick

  Struggle, People, Important

  "Terrence Malick Punched Out A Producer & 10 Other Things We Learned About ‘Badlands’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 03, 2011.

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• With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'

  Sam Kinison

  People, Fans, Hey

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• I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

  Gerrit Smith

  Republican

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• Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Real, Writing

  "Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge, prejudice, customs and habits. This means we are standing up in our individual place, not the universal perspective. This egoistic behavior makes it very difficult to see the overall picture. But buddhas and ancestors recommend that we first stand up in the appropriate place. Just stand up, be present in the Universe itself.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Real, Mean, Knowing

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, Ideas, People

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

  John Breaux

  Leader, Trying, President

  "CNN Live Today", Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

  Claud Cockburn

  Success, Dog, Fall

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Summer, Weed, Believe

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• Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

  Bill Drayton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because were trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is.

  Isabel Toledo

  Ideas, Luxury, Track

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• Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

  Ninette de Valois

  Way, Easy, Weak

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• Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

  Julie Mehretu

  Race, Detroit, Conversation

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• Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.

  Linwood Barclay

  Work Out, Design, Foundation

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• Ever since ADCC 2003 people come up to me and say, 'Did you see your bracket? It's the toughest one there is!' And I always reply with 'I didn't even look.' It's always the tough- est bracket, but thank God I al- ways win it.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Winning, People, Thank God

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• I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

  Robert Wyatt

  Years, Suits You, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, Ideas, People

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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