came up
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.