Coming Back Quotes - Page 17

• The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

  George Orwell

  Mystical, Absurdity, Statements

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Dying, Let Me

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• Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Real, Culture, Shock

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.163, A&C Black

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• Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.

  Sylvia Day

  Red, Firsts, Dresses

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• Women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Elephants, Watches

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• The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

  Dan Harris

  Brain, Curls, Catching

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have no regrets coming back for a second Olympic team [in 2016]. It's been an amazing experience. It's been teaching me a lot.

  Gabby Douglas

  Regret, Team, Teaching

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• I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

  Vashti Bunyan

  People, Giving, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

  Alice Winocour

  War, Reality, Soldier

  "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.

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• It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, New Experiences, Together

  Interview with Cindy Pearlman, acttwomagazine.com.

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• I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all have an emotional home that we keep coming back to. Even if a foundationally angry or sad person has a good job and good family, they return to their emotional home, especially when experiencing life's inevitable setbacks.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, Home, Emotional

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.

  George Saunders

  Running, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Perfect, Universe

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 03, 2012

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Desks, Ability

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• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  Taye Diggs

  Broadway, My Favorite, Intention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

  Rick Wakeman

  Band, Felt, Left

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• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  Sally Schneider

  Thinking, Fundraising, People

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• Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Degrees, Nostalgia, Kind

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.

  Elliott Colla

  Christian, Home, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in a reflection of the times, is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Hats off to all these people who have done such incredible creative work and still do every week.

  Michael Uslan

  Character, Reflection, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.

  Howie Mandel

  Would Be, Stories, World

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• Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.

  Mark Hoppus

  Special, Buttons, Albums

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Honestly, you got to take care of the people that take care of you. I know that sounds like cliche, or borderline phony, but that's the case. The reason I've had the fans that I have is because I've been consistent over the years and kept coming back and doing the same runs. I'm never going to stop doing the cities I've gone through. I'm only going to add.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Running, Years, Cities

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