#making up

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost. ↗

— Quintilian

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I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down. ↗

— Herb Ritts

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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ↗

— David E. Kelley

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People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants. ↗

— Joss Stone

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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

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I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage. ↗

— Patsy Cline

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Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

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As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

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He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast. ↗

— Frank McCourt

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I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country. ↗

— David Plouffe

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