I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
Rita Vrataski: Come find me when you wake up!
Davis: Saddle up, ladies. We're sick of holding up your end.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: Stop lying to me. I'm sick of grown-ups lying to me!
Big Joe: [to Pvt. Little Joe] Shut up you pain in the ass!
Mud: She is like a dream you don't want to wake up from.
Marjane as a teenager: Shut up you bitches! YES I'M IRANIAN AND I'M PROUD OF IT!
Lucie: Don't tell me that I grew up; when you don't think that I grew up!
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
