Shut Up Quotes - Page 12

• It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

  Peter Greenaway

  Miserable, Easy

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

  Joschka Fischer

  Years, Next, Topics

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• I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Miserable, Curse, Enjoyment

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.160, First Avenue Editions

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• Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Missing, Hot

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• We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.

  Katharine Hepburn

  School, Character, Essence

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• Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

  John Dryden

  Death, Woe, Kind

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.475

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• A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

  Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul

  Moving, Office, Political

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• There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

  Kevin Bacon

  Men, Average, Talking

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• If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

  Peter Welch

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles, especially the Shut Up, Stop Whining and the Grow a Pair. So the title is very, very important.

  Larry Winget

  Book, People, Important

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

  Jay Mohr

  Guy

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• I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Self, Sound

  "Interview: Anthony Hopkins (The World’s Fastest Indian)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. January 31, 2006.

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• My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

  Morena Baccarin

  Mom, Criticism, Would Be

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

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• I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

  Bob Balaban

  Hands, Always Trying, People

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• They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

  Michael Scott

  Character, Facts, Speak

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• There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Daddy, People, Hug

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• I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

  Beverly Cleary

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  Olivia Colman

  Mean, Clouds, Shoes

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• I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people turned off from it. It's like, "All you have to do is Wikipedia feminism to know that it's not about man-hating - so shut up." That makes me annoyed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stupid, Hate, Men

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• My son is 12 now, and is really getting into girls. A lot. But the thing about twelve year old boys is that they don't possess what I like to call that ... discretionary gene yet. We were walking home from the ballfield the other day and there was a woman walking towards us who was ... gifted. I saw them, and I saw him see them. But she was too close for me to go, "Dude, shut up." She hadn't walked two feet behind us and he goes "God dang, did you see the SIZE of those things?" And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Feb 12, 2013

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• I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Play, Differences

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. Nove,ber 1, 2010.

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• I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

  Maureen Johnson

  Motivation, Book, People

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• Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

  Max Irons

  Teaching, Car, Parent

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• Baby, shut up and let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Wine, Tea

  Song: Feed My Frankenstein, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

  Linda Gray

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Talking

  "Linda Gray on the return of Dallas and her best friend Larry Hagman". www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2011.

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