I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.
Bill Bryson
MeStandShyAudienceUpNatural
I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
Jennette McCurdy
ThinkWriteUpWouldPoemsMelodies
We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
Anne-Marie Duff
GirlThoughtBoyNamesOutUp
I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
The Notorious B.I.G.
SongOutUpLawnComeSome
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Robert Reich
PoliticsDoneUpGivePowerlessness
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
William Hague
ChangeGreatPeopleProcessFeelUp
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
Patty Griffin
BeautifulMeUpWholeApproachMuch
I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
Gary Jennings
WorkWordsWritingFindNeverUp
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
Michael Graves
GoodDesignCareerGoalAlwaysUp
Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.
Sheryl Sandberg
LoveLove IsPeopleYouHouseUp
I'm around 6'4' and 240 pounds. So I rarely feel that intimidated by other men. But I've got to give it up to Terry Bradshaw. That guy is a complete bulldog.
David Harbour
MenFeelUpGuyCompleteGive
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
Laurie Colwin
KitchenEndAlwaysUpFeedingCrowd
So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.
Danica Patrick
PeopleMeStoryGoalHighUp
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.
Jimmy Carr
SchoolBookThoughtSaidSheUp
I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.
Stefon Diggs
I CanTryUpAnythingThings
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
Colin Firth
I AmMindAmericanFeelAmericaUp
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley
WiseWorldInjusticeUpSentimental
We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.
Burnie Burns
GenuineSeeContentUpStartedOur
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
John Aniston
BusinessYouOutUpShow Business
It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.
Toyin Odutola
TimeTogetherFaceLanguageKindUp
I'm going to show up and do my job to the best of my abilities every day, every week.
Brock Osweiler
BestDayJobWeekEvery DayUp
I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
Alan Moore
CelebrityUpOnlySignWriter
I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
Maya Rudolph
GrowFantasyGrow UpUpBeingStill
It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
Arto Lindsay
IdeasNewNew IdeasPointUpSense
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