Down And Quotes - Page 20

• For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Team, Thinking, Years

  "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

  Robert James Thomson

  Tears, Gone, Sometimes

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

  Mike Vogel

  Way, Sometimes, Surprise

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Thinking, Would Be

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.

  Scarlett Alice Johnson

  Lonely, Way, Matter

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Couple, Book, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it to mean anything. You can't intellectualize it. It's like why movies are cool. It's a combination of pictures and design and acting and music can create an experience that is outside of the experience that you can actually have in reality, which gets to my motion picture philosophy. People are like, 'aren't you trying to make the movies as real as you can?'

  Zack Snyder

  Philosophy, Real, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Nice, Mean, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

  India.Arie

  Crazy, Yoga, Meditation

  "India Arie Talks Vulnerability, Meditation And The Creative Process (PHOTOS)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

  Biz Stone

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Jobs, Kissing, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Teaching, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

  Craig Finn

  Bigs, Stuck, Big Things

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

  Annie E. Clark

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Believe, Writing, Fate

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• There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

  Matthew Specktor

  Wall, Believe, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

  Pam Houston

  Home, Writing, Going Out

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Certain, Relate

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• I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Reading, Weekend

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

  Maggie Siff

  Fall, Get Back, Keep Going

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.

  Brooke Fraser

  Skins, Adults, My Own

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• I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it`s very different than the way Sarah Palin explained it.

  Jon Soltz

  Stress, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.

  Bridget Everett

  Thinking, Taste, Explosions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.

  Molly Crabapple

  Thinking, People, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  Rhys Darby

  Ocean, Kraken, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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