When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.
I've always stood up for country music.
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.
Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you say so," he said. "I say so," said Magnus, and he turned to follow Isabelle out of the room.
I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.