Down And Quotes - Page 25

• It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

  Reggie Watts

  Moving, Kind, Possibility

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• I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.

  Keith Carradine

  Kings, Couple, Years

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I'd met Harrison Ford before, but he was just finishing a meet with Jon Favreau and the other producers on the film, and we said "hello" as he walked out and I walked in and sat down and had this meeting with those guys. They basically described what they were looking for, and they thought that I brought a certain amount of authenticity to the genre, and would I want to take part? And I said, "Absolutely! I'd love to!"

  Keith Carradine

  Guy, Finishing, Want

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Beach, Brother

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

  Zachary Levi

  Struggle, Hard Times, Planning

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Choices, Drug

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Cancer, Writing

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.

  Nate Parker

  Kissing, Say Anything, Stopping

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.

  Van Morrison

  Book, Writing, May

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time.

  Dan Mangan

  Kids, Waiting, Feelings

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.

  Dan Mangan

  Art, Couple, Book

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Sometimes it could be just during the day, when I'm riding in the car or on the plane. I'll hear somebody say something that strikes a chord and I write it down and write bars at a time, and then when I'm in the studio I go to those bars and I'm like, "Maybe I should make a song about this."

  Tyga

  Song, Writing, Car

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• People will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized. It's not going to work that way. Those days are over.

  Donald Trump

  People, Waiting, Way

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Sacrifice, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.152, e-artnow

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• My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

  Ray Liotta

  Careers, Up And Down, Has Beens

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

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• You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.

  Aya Cash

  Never Expect, Happens, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound On The Moon" .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.

  Vera Nazarian

  Moon, Two, Stories

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Typewriters, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

  Kathy Freston

  Giving, Important, Breakfast

  "The 7-Day Lean Challenge, Day 1: Have a Hearty Breakfast" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

  Spike Milligan

  Eggs, Cynical, Politics

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• The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it.

  Shauna Niequist

  Ears, Alive, World

  Shauna Niequist (2009). “Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life”, p.8, Zondervan

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• I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes on my phone. I often come up with a phrase that I really like, I write it down and it stays in my notes folder, and when I'm writing I will scroll through and see if it kind of fits and if I can mould a verse around it.

  Thomston

  Song, Writing, Phones

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• Being able to interact with [studio president] Kevin Feige and have him know who I am and know me as a person, and be able to then sit down and have a conversation about story with someone who's familiar and comfortable is invaluable.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Who I Am, President, Kevin

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Philosophy, Ego, Identity

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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