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How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? — Rachel Klein

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion. — Alan Furst

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead. — Frances Hardinge

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along. — Martha Beck

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. — Jonathan Lethem

It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think. — J.K. Rowling

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it. — Jody Williams

You know, Leo's brother's hooking me up with a car when I get my license. I'm making you get in while it's moving. — Cath Crowley

At least when I bugger-up, I do it consistently. — Ashley Newell

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value. — Seth Godin

We're making this movie up as we go along. And we don't know how it ends or even if it does end. — Art Hochberg

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated. — Edie Brickell

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time. — W.P. Kinsella

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn. — Lawrence Taylor

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again. — Francine Prose

The clever are marrying the clever and manically educating their children, making it ever harder for the poor to catch up. — Anonymous

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will. — Brent Weeks

I'm the Iblis. There's a sword, and it's magical, and I can locate demons. It was total bullshit, but I'm not good at making stuff up on the fly. — Debra Dunbar

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. — Hasan M. Elahi

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes. — Taylor Swift

I'm not wearing no make-up!"
Burt - Book 1 "Making it — Jamie Scallion

Markets go up. Markets go down. We always make money ... Get used to it — Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting. — Joan Rivers

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. — Peter Diamandis

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you. — Elizabeth George

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to. — Sarah Brightman

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress. — Ralph Marston

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again."
"Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think? — James A. Owen

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it! — Will Rogers

Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And that's how I ended up making out with the love of my life in the storeroom of a comic shop where, it turns out, heaven really can be found. — Leah Rae Miller

I made the first move. Now it's up to him."
"Telling him you should hit the sack and get it out of your system is not making the first move. — Mary J. Williams

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. — C.S. Lewis

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it. — Eric Balfour

I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible. — Jason Woliner

You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in the present. — Guillermo Del Toro

Why is it that the people you care about the most end up making you feel so meaningless? — Sudeep Nagarkar

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

It's up to you, not fate. — David Levithan

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. — A. C. Benson

Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so
to see you sitting up there so prim. — Thomas Hardy

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making. — G-Eazy

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for. — Erri De Luca

I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint. — Rodney Dangerfield

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I never thought I'd end up living in Los Angeles while my children grew up in Britain, but here I am, and we are all making the best of it. — Hugh Laurie

Hooters McHoulihan, let's get the fuck out of here. This G-string is so far up my ass, it's making my brain hurt, Jane grumbled — Robyn Peterman

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. — Josh Billings

I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work. — Tim Gunn

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say. — Sandra Cisneros

I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

We're all just making it up as we go along. No one really knows what they're doing. — A.S. King

I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again. — Patrick Ness

If I catch you making eyes at Hunter Chenier tonight, it's over between us.'

She looked over her shoulder. 'That a promise? — Nina Bruhns

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick. — Joshua Harris

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! — Julia Glass

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you're making up. You shouldn't let that bother you. — Emma Hooper

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually. — Terry Zwigoff

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. — Brian K. Vaughan

I'm giving you one minute to play, Kenna, then it's time to start wearing you out. I'll be making up for lost time with that sinner's body. — Anonymous

I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under
because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G. — Snoop Dogg

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along. — Jane Pauley

You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage. — Tony Cleaver

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it. — Phil Plait

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really. — Patricia Nell Warren

Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it. — Hal Elrod

I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them. — William Green

It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind. — Steve Maraboli

The wind," Mary said again. "It was making everyone tear up. — Alice McDermott

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams. — Jimmy Carter

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too. — Claes Oldenburg

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. — John Grogan

Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one? — Sharon Weil

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up. — Deborah Meier

I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options. — Aleksandr Voinov

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots. — Chris Cleave

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man - they only want a vote. — George Eliot

Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making people look good. It's really creating the character. — Kristen Connolly

If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up. — Maurice Sendak

I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it. — Sambhav Ratnakar

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it. — Dontrelle Willis

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories. — Gerard Butler

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. — J.D. Salinger

Seeing her hit him in the chest, the burn in his gut moving up to flame in his lungs, compressing them, making it suddenly hard to catch a breath. He — Kristen Ashley

The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up. — Mike Lazaridis

I will not give up. I must not fail."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it — Jamie Scallion

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up — Jemaine Clement

Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn't keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way. — Alexandra Engellmann

No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead. — W.C. Fields

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up. — Bill Gates

But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me. — Robin Talley

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.' — Dave Foley

It's like she thinks she did me a favor by raising me to believe that the entire world was out to get me, by making sure I never get my hopes up. — Rainbow Rowell

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity. — Sean Lennon

Darkness has a way of creeping up on you, making its presence known before you even realize it's happened. — Melyssa Winchester

There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along. — Ben Aaronovitch

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. — Megan McCafferty