- Me
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped and caught myself with my right arm. I felt something pull right then. Then, in '38, when I came back, my arm was messed up.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tombstones don't talk back.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.
- Lightning
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020