Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.
I used to wonder, when my grandmother would tell me what the wolf said to the jackal, how these animals can talk. And, she would say, ‘in my stories, animals talk. Shut up and listen.’
I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
That’s violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.
I wasn’t the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn’t shut up.
Just because it is Christmas doesn’t mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up.
I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, ‘What’re you talking about? Shut up.’ And I realised that I was the weird one.
I know to shut up when I don’t know what I’m talking about.
If you don’t like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don’t keep talking about it.
We met Ferg at one of our shows in L.A. She gave us her number. For the song ‘Shut Up’ on Elephunk, we needed a vocalist. Someone said ‘yo, remember that white girl – we should get her in the studio.’ Since then, we’ve become friends. She’s one of the guys now, she isn’t just a girl.
I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can’t shut up about. When I hear people say things like, ‘If ‘we’ allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,’ I can’t just stand there.
I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, ‘Star’ and ‘Wars,’ said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.
Charles Blow’s memoir ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ was a breathtaking piece of writing.
If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
My dad’s a doctor, and he’d watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and he’d be like, ‘This is not okay. This isn’t what it’s like.’ And we’re like, ‘Shut up, it’s not about that. That’s not why we’re watching it.’
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there… when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You’re welcome; this bill is in the mail.
When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.
There are people who tell you to shut up because you’re just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they’re every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren’t any more qualified than the average man on the street.
When people say – ‘Well, do you miss being a judge since you’re in Congress,’ I go – ‘Only when I want people to sit down and shut up.’
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we’re forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
You’re playing or you’re not playing. If you’re playing, so just shut up and play.
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
I don’t know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don’t get me wrong – we get paid a lot of money. There’s a sense of ‘shut up and play,’ that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we’re like zoo animals. We’re not human beings.
When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don’t just shut up and say it’s none of my business.
I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing ‘Caroline Shut Up.’ That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it’s very personal.
When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.
If you’re lucky enough to have a position where people listen to you, you should say stuff you believe in – but not if you’re Jenny McCarthy. Then you should shut up. But if you’re right, like Amy Poehler, then speak up.
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
I just try to be authentic and speak from the heart. Sometimes it requires me to shut up and not say anything.
Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they’re right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.
100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it’s making noise.
You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It’s like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, ‘Shut up!’
Kids should speak to each other. They’re horrid to each other online, they bully each other – they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It’s too much, too young.
What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.
In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
I saw women that were repressed. When they’re in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They’re laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can’t really think.
I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I’m trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
I still sing every day – in the shower or on the set all day. I’m sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it’s not in the capacity that I would like to.
In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, ‘Shut up,’ or cry, even in front of your own family.
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I do sometimes, so she was being a good friend.
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.
There’s a long history and a pattern of Black athletes – and Black people, period – being told to shut up and accept whatever it is they’re given.
Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, ‘What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?’ everybody shut up.
You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won’t shut up about it, but it’s not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn’t choose to be exposed.
I always practice, even on the cat tracks or in those interstitial periods. My dad says, ‘Even when you’re just stopping, be sure to do it right, maintaining a good position, with counter-rotational force.’ These are the kinds of things my dad says, and I’m like, ‘Shut up.’
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