Making Up Quotes - Page 6

• The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Ideas, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

  James Fallows

  Military, Party, Names

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• I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

  Meg Cabot

  Notebook, Home, Kids

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

  Ruth Glick

  Jobs, Hero, Best Job

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• Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Character, Plot

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

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• Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

  Malachy McCourt

  Song, Silly, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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• While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'

  A.C. Newman

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

  Rashad Evans

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• After three League games, we have the same number of points as last year even if we have played two away games this time round, ... As we got back on the right track last season, including making up an eight-point gap in a few games, we just need to stay calm.

  Adriano Galliani

  Eight, Years, Games

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• In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

  Denise Duhamel

  Fun, Writing, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

  Kary Mullis

  Successful, Fabric, Fit

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• I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".

  Mike Mignola

  Hate, Book, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Adventure, Games

  "This Ames is True". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

  Patsy Cline

  Thinking, Mind, Stage

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• Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

  Cordell Hull

  Government, Years, One Day

  Remarks in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505, April 26, 1913.

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• I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

  Suzanne Vega

  Character, Stories, Inventing

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• After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off - off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved - the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Crazy, College, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

  John Lasseter

  Fun, Play, Stories

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• If the US had a relationship with Russia, North Korea - which is our single biggest problem right now - North Korea, it would be helped a lot. I think I'm doing very well with respect to China. They've cut off financing; they've cut off bank lines; they've cut off lots of oil and lots of other things. And it's having a big impact. But Russia, on the other hand, may be making up the difference. And if they are, that's not a good thing. So having a relationship with Russia would be a great thing - not a good thing - it would be a great thing, especially as it relates to North Korea.

  Donald Trump

  Cutting, Thinking, Problem

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Example, Stories, Limits

  "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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• Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.

  David Small

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes. When you put a sound to something and it's wrong, it's so obvious. When it's right, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's a magical thing that can happen in cinema.

  David Lynch

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a big rift. Then you get older and you realize it's not. But for a while there, we really didn't have much to do with each other - mostly because I should have been a better older brother. I'm making up for lost time. I want that in print so she can read it.

  Peter Vack

  Brother, Growing Up, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

  Edie Brickell

  Easter, Crazy, Eggs

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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