Get Up Quotes - Page 22

• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  William Faulkner

  Pain, Hangover, Thinking

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• To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Kids, Grease, Firsts

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• It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

  Al Pacino

  Morning, Fun, Waiting Around

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• You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

  Nancy Reagan

  Feet, Different, Each Day

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 5, 2001.

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• I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Silly, Ideas, Band

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• You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Years, Dodge

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• The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.

  Colin Hay

  Energy, Sofas, Shows

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• I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.

  Eric Burdon

  Kids, Rocks, Style

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• I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

  Patrick Duffy

  Buddhist, Morning, Coffee

  "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.

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• What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

  Judy Blume

  Morning, Writing, Character

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

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• I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Hate, Mean, Talking

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

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• Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

  Andrew Bird

  Morning, Trying, Shapes

  "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.

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• I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

  Anton du Beke

  Kicking It, Done, Easy

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• If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

  Dave Brubeck

  Hate, Up Early, Normal

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• I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

  Melvin Burgess

  Coffee, Cutting, Water

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• In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

  Melvin Burgess

  Book, Writing, Mail

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• When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

  Scott Brooks

  Player, Choices, Get Better

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• When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

  Eric Church

  Song, Writing, Records

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• And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

  Justin Cronin

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

  Allen Carr

  Believe, Lazy, Havens

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• When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?

  David Agus

  Morning, Moving, Shoes

  "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Fun, Mistake, Fall

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• If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

  Robert Caro

  Excited, Ends, Chapters

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Morning, Brother, Jobs

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• I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

  Adam Garcia

  Sunday, Trying, Watches

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