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• I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

  Grimes

  Character, Findings, Whole

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Deuces, Questions And Answers

  Henry Adams (1951). “Selected letters”, New York, Farrar

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• ...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Wisdom, Running

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• The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

  Fannie Hurst

  Mind, Criticism, Letters

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• In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Voting, Mind, Citizens

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Sex, Pain

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

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• I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

  Dido Armstrong

  Childhood, Decision, Stories

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• For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

  Anita DeFrantz

  Sports, Book, Thorough Understanding

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• There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

  Randall Munroe

  Adventure, Thinking, Interesting

  "xkcd (Choices: Part 4)". Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com. (May 29, 2005 - ).

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• I've always felt bad that I never had more information to give people when they asked me about it, but I guess people kind of got frustrated by that and they just started kind of making up their own sort of "well, we haven't heard that much" or "news hasn't changed so it must be going away".

  Jason Bateman

  People, Giving, Frustrated

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2009.

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• Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ice Cream, Flavor, Green

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• I remember making up songs in my head.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Remember

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• Have you ever made her angry?" If the cop said that he and his wife lived in a state of constant connubial bliss, Andrew decided he'd have full cause to throw a punch. Max raised an eyebrow. "Sure, I'm human." He slid the phone into the pocket of his suit pants and rose to his feet with a distinctly amused glint in his eyes. "Making up is the un part, in case you haven't figured that out yet.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Phones, Feet

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• If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Song, Brother, Sleep

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• I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Curran wasn’t handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he’d called me at the office claiming that he couldn’t find his socks. We talked for two hours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hurt, Fighting, Two

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.81, Penguin

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• What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

  Thomas Harris

  Eye, Waiting Rooms, Mind

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

  Tom Wolfe

  Forever, Stories, Journalism

  "Mummy Wrap" by George Neumayr, "The American Spectator", spectator.org. January 10, 2005.

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• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Silly, Mean

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

  Shannon Hale

  Crazy, Reading, Writing

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• She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, People, Mind

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.651, Scholastic UK

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• We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

  George Eliot

  Our World, Discovery, Facts

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.223, Penguin

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• A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Sheep, Littles

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Three, Alex

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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