Quotes of: Showing-up Keyword

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

Margaret Cho

There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

Rick Perry

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Ashly Lorenzana

I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.

Terry Wogan

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

Willem Dafoe

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Tyra Banks

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

Natalie Massenet

I gave her a look. “Rachel.” “Grace, you have to admit this is pretty weird. Say it. You disappearing from the hospital and Olivia is — and Sam suddenly shows up with you and, well, the freaky hallucinogenic mushrooms are looking more and mor...

Shiver

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only r...

Orson Scott Card

[first lines] Radio announcer: President Truman'll be here tomorrow, so all you folks in Dallas turn out, chuh hear? This is Cowboy Rhythms on KTRN, Wichita Falls, here's Hank Williams' big hit tune, "Cold Cold Heart". Sam the Lion: You ain't ever go...

The Last Picture Show

[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that the job of the author is to show, not tell. Needless to say, many great novelists combine "dramatic" showing with lo...

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Dan Abrams

Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we don’t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That w...

Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life

You're my hero, Rhage." Ears pricked up, Rhage watched her closely. Anything she said was important to him, and how lovely was that? "I always thought I'd grow up and find my own hero." Rainie grimaced at herself in the mirror. Obviously she shouldn'...

Show Me, Baby: 1001 Dark Nights

Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.

Afghan

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

French

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to pa...

Hope Solo

When I was on 'Lost,' I used to have families who would come up to me, and they would push their little 5-year-old forward and go, 'Go say hi!' They would say, 'She's such a big fan of you and 'Lost,' and I would scold the parents. I'd tell them, 'Sh...

Evangeline Lilly

I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galler...

Jerry Saltz