- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up Quotes
Growing up, getting through, adding up.
This set of up quotes centers on growing up in a tough neighborhood and the resilience that experience builds over time. One entry treats that upbringing as proof of a law-abiding life that followed. Related themes continue in our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.
- George W
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W Bush (and, in their image, Tony Blair) bitterly annoyed their antagonists because they were - at least until the Iraq war caught up with Blair and Bush - Teflon. David Cameron is in this model.
- Frederick
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
- Firm Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020