Down And Quotes - Page 5

• Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Color, House

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.

  Tim Gunn

  Encouragement, Teaching, Offering

  "Tim Gunn on ‘Project Runway,’ New Book, Current Fashion". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. October 26, 2010.

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• I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Writing, Tears, Sometimes

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• Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

  Ralph Lauren

  Come Up, Stomach, Knots

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• When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

  Blake Griffin

  Girl, Honesty, Important

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

  Chris Hardwick

  Writing, Ideas, Waiting In Line

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

  Marietta Holley

  Neutrality, Advantage, Situation

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.197

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• Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.

  Susan Jacoby

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

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• The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Lying, Impact

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press

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• We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Wall

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• In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

  Gertrude Lawrence

  Successful, Hopeful, Earth

  Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

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• The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Taken, Hands

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

  Paul Dano

  Light, Theatre, Littles

  "Paul Dano: there's light at the end of his journeys into darkness". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

  Jamie Dornan

  Book, Wife, Hyper

  "Jamie Dornan: ‘I hated it when people called me cute’". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Retirement, America, Space

  "Why We Should Keep Flying the Space Shuttle" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

  Isla Fisher

  Baby, Calm, Feeding

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

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• I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Slow Down, Savoring, Enjoy

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• The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

  Horace

  Mind, Excess, Body

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• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

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• For the air of youth,
  Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
  A melancholy damp of cold and dry
  To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
  The balm of life.

  John Milton

  Air, Blood, Hopeful

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.494

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• It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

  Avril Lavigne

  Song, Writing, Boys

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• No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need balance. With myself, I'm very in touch with my masculine side. And I'm 50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine, same as I think a lot of us are. And I think that is important to note. And also I think that if men went down and women rose to power, that wouldn't work either. We have to have a fine balance.

  Shailene Woodley

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

  Scott Adkins

  Training, Roles, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

  Kanye West

  Stuff, Slow Down, Futurist

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• Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

  Tika Sumpter

  Weed, Moving, Auditions

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