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Related I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually ... CHERYL TIEGS A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect wa... T. J. PERKINS DEYTH BANGER MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was thinking when I made that 3-pointer that they'd probably try to answer it. But I had a lot of ... CHRISTOPHER JONES My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my a... SONNY ROLLINS That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out. DAN SNYDER LANA DEL REY My career's had a lot of ups and downs. Once I started playing with John Peers in 2013, that gav... JAMIE MURRAY I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into mu... ZACHARY QUINTO EDMUND WHITE FAMKE JANSSEN HARPER LEE DARREN ARONOFSKY ED WEEKS He was fine, he sort of ducked and it came down on his back. BRUCE ROBERTSON A really great album came out of it, but what it did was leave all these other tracks that I'd done ... GLENN TIPTON FRANK DARABONT KARRIE WEBB As soon as he went down I prayed for him and hoped for all of the best for him. I was watching it. I... DOMINIQUE BYRD I kind of went in with a goal. I had the surgery. It's something I had to do. I looked at it like pr... BYRON TINKER EDDIE REDMAYNE This has been a season of ups and downs. I had mono for more than a month and it was frustrating bei... LAURA FALKENBERG When my sister came here, I knew her. I finally had a sister, and now she's gone. I miss that. LUHANNA CHESLEY JESSE ANDREWS NICOLE KRAUSS SUFJAN STEVENS NICHOLAS SPARKS AUGUST WILSON I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I firs... JASON WU I'd gone through it myself. So I sort of knew what someone needed to have done for them. It was grea... CAROLINE BARRY The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago. I heard it more than once that som... DAVE LANE We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. JEFF ATTINELLA DEYTH BANGER When I realized when (Stardust) was born, that sort of ignited an interest I had in the late '60s, .... DON SILVER You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for i... ANGELIQUE KERBER It has its ups and downs for sure, but when you take a second and look at life, it's beautiful. Cele... CASSIE LIEGH I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take m... BRYAN BROWN To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I like how it comes in solid colors. It's not some sort of ugly plaid or ducks and bunnies. I love i... CHRIS FORD HANYA YANAGIHARA DEBBIE HARRY I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?'... JONATHAN COE To go on a roller coaster of life sometimes the downs are scarier than the ups. But when the ups com... GARY F EVANS... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN STERLING K. BROWN We had a tough season -- we had a lot of ups and downs -- but at the end, it was memorable for us. JUSTIN CAGE GERRY COONEY JESSIE J TRACY AUSTIN RACHAEL LEIGH COOK The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that... ANN DUMAS I had a lot of support from my mom. She was my backbone. She's a single parent, she's been through m... CLINTON SOLOMON I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like... CAROLINE LELAND She's obviously sort of volatile ... big ups and downs are not completely foreign to her and obvious... JEAN SMART But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it reall... KATEY SAGAL When life has its ups and downs like a yo-yo the only thing that we can try our best to do is get it... GARY F EVANS... BRUCE WILLIS 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON LOUIS C. K. When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost... BEFORE VEEDER When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost... BEFORE DAVID VEEDER HARUKI MURAKAMI DREW BARRYMORE 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries arou... FEIST DENZEL WASHINGTON I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just ... DAN O'BRIEN It didn't sound that appealing and it wasn't paying much, ... They liked a character that I was doin... CASSANDRA PETERSON One-hundred-meter hurdles is my strongest event. I've had my ups and downs with it, but I love hurdl... ASHLEY GOOD WALTER ISAACSON I sat down with Gerard and we brainstormed, and the children being stolen started coming in as a mot... DUSTIN KENSRUE I sat down with Gerard and we brainstormed, and the children being stolen started coming in as a mot... DUSTIN KENSRUE Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing ... WILLIAM SEARS I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so... KAREN ELSON It definitely got the team up and going. When they scored that first one, the [fans] sort of got dow... BRIAN SAVAGE I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures tha... JAMES STEWART ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH BILLY IDOL TERRY BRADSHAW Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE We knew they had to foul down the stretch and shoot threes and make us miss. It was big to finish li... KYLE COSTON I always thought of him as a stoic, solid person, that I think was typical of that era of the 1950s,... DICK SCHAAP I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with ea... JANE WIEDLIN When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became publi... TRACEY GOLD I try not to think about all of that and put it behind, but I can't deny this has been a season of m... CHRIS NELSON I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not. BRYAN FULLER When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid cre... SARAH HALL KARA LINDSAY CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think it was not the best game. One-on-one, he had more downs than ups. FERNANDO CLAVIJO It was the scariest wave that I had ever ridden, but it was a huge adrenaline rush. I was scared, bu... TIM BROLASKI I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that chara... NORMAN LLOYD When I jumped, I lost my balance, ... I thought someone was behind me and I was securing the catch. ... ANQUAN BOLDIN I was filled with angst all the time, but when it came down to it, I dove into what was in front of ... JANE LYNCH I knew that if I wanted to make any sort of living, I had to go there. HARRISON WHITE ETHAN CANIN W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Everybody sort of fell over to the side. There's no cushion to it. It's all solid metal with bolts s... JIM MARSHALL CATHERINE LACEY
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What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... 
It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort o... 
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I ... 
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa... 
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came ... 
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik... 
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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of mid... 
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so ... 
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George! ... Actually, I sort of like it when she does that. 
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I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I f... 
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When he came down, he was slower, and clutching something his hand. He leapt down the last 5 feet or... 
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I've had a long, long road with lots of ups and downs. But that's all behind me now. 
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The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most p... 
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It's been tough, but it has been fun, ... This business has its ups and downs, just like any other o... 
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Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
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I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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Poetry lies its way to the truth. 
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