Come Up Quotes - Page 21

• If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

  Chester Bennington

  Fans, Ifs

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

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• I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Play, People, Boba Fett

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• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?

  Lance Bass

  Gay, People, Up To You

  "'NSYNC's Lance Bass reveals he's gay: 'I'm not ashamed ... I don't think it's wrong'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2006.

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• As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Dream, Doctors

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• People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  People, Stories, Inspired

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• I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

  Gwendoline Christie

  Nice, Years, Feet

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

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• Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

  Alan Cumming

  Kids, Piercings, Want

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

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• Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

  Alex Chilton

  Years, Trying, Sometimes

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• The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

  Alex Chilton

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

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• So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

  Catie Curtis

  Writing, Eight, Guitar

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

  Emma Caulfield

  Would Be, Lines, Timing

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• George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

  Gary Coleman

  Trying, Stories, Election

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• Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

  John Cornyn

  Morning, Thinking, Obamacare

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• I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

  Simon Callow

  Answers, Mankind, Situation

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• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Phones, Gaps, Would Be

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

  Anita Diament

  Couple, Book, College

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• I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book

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• Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Issues, Mind, Immigration

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• There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

  Ari Graynor

  Ideas, Pressure, Rough Drafts

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

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• Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

  David Graeber

  Hate, Thinking, Agreement

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• I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

  Alex Garland

  Character, Ideas, Different

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

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• I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

  Greta Gerwig

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

  Lisa Gardner

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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