"Sort yourself out in the present," Ms. Song's mother, concerned about her daughter's still-single, still-drifting status, advises when she hears her express the desire to be 17 again.
And he has learned to distill his wide-ranging theories into pithy sentences, including one that has become his de facto catchphrase, a possibly spurious quote that nevertheless captures his style and his substance: "Sort yourself out, bucko".
Fogarty added: "He's got everybody running around after him going: 'Oh it's a shame for him'... Hang on a minute – grow up, sort yourself out and take responsibility.
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The girl also appears to advise the boy not to sell marijuana in the area, by saying: "You best fix up, sort yourself out, and when my bredren or anyone on this estate comes for a draw you're not giving them dust, you understand?" One onlooker can be heard warning the girl: "You are going to have this on your phone, you are stupid if you do it.
You need to sort yourself out, Catherine!
If you've not checked it out yet, sort yourself out immediately.
We do that less now – say if you get into trouble, you sort yourself out".
"Then you sort yourself out and you're like, 'Nah!'" Jay, a former quantity surveyor, has a similar attitude to the grind.
