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The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

Michael Angelakos

Lines, I've Learned, Like You

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Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go.

Kevin Feige

Progress, Plot, Needs

"Exclusive: Marvel’s Kevin Feige Talks THOR, AVENGERS, ANT-MAN, DOCTOR STRANGE, Animated Movies, Reveals What’s in Odin’s Vault". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2011.

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In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Bill Vaughan

President, Republican, Congress

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Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

Fannie Hurst

Success, Sweat, Balls

Fannie Hurst (1959). “Imitation of Life”, New York : Permabooks

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The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.

Kirsten Dunst

Moving, Reading, Lines

"Melancholia and the Inimitable, Skyping Kirsten Dunst". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2011.

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In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

Harold Geneen

Ideas, Spontaneous, Results

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In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

Robert Reed

Couple, Cutting, Effort

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As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

Peter Russell

Building Up, People, Supportive

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When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

Paul Krugman

Fall, Investing, Rising

"Reckonings; Goldilocks And the Bears". www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2000.

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Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

Anne Sweeney

Commitment, Television, Definitions

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Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.

Kevin Kline

Independent, Sacrifice, Trying

"Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

Douglas Kennedy

Book, Writing, Matter

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Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who squeaked into office on a narrow margin accomplished much less; he was weakened right out of the gate, and Congress never seemed to let him forget it.

Dan Brown

Winning, Office, Vision

Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

Eric Davis

Revenge, Play, Bigs

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The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

Darren Criss

Years, People, Trying

"Inside Darren Criss' Plan to Create an Annual Music Festival With Broadway Performers". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2015.

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And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Dan O'Brien

Rocks, Get Better, Rolling

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Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.

Carson Ellis

Art, Book, Kids

Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

Lou Holtz

Attitude, Determine

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As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

Colm Meaney

Nice, Crazy, Character

Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 4, 2011.

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It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

Calvin Jillson

White, Ties, House

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And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Hunter S. Thompson

Beautiful, Military, Mean

"Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.

Greil Marcus

Running, Listening, Mountain

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At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At the heart of deep, new time is the creative spirit. But at the heart of our time is love.

David Spangler

Heart, Creative, Individuality

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The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

U.G. Krishnamurti

Life, Simple, Self

"The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Mark Helprin

Imperfect World, Bridges, Cities

Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.555, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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