- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back Quotes
Words about returning, backing up, and standing behind what matters.
This collection gathers lines built around the small word 'back' in surprisingly different contexts: political leverage handed back to Congress, actors returning from a shoot, and even a beauty routine built on backing up one step with another. See more reflective lines in our Always collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want to do entertainment anymore, I was discovered. And I couldn't back down from that.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.
- Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, back in the day, the ultimate trifecta was considered 'Harry Potter,' 'Lord of the Rings,' and maybe 'Star Trek.'
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially - this is back in 2002 or 2003 when I graduated - I wanted to move to D.C. and work on education reform, specifically with No Child Left Behind.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it's just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
- Through
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come through this world, and you become successful, you have to give back.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020