Roller Coaster Quotes - Page 5

• But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Running, Climbing, Aerodynamics

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

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• Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

  James Patterson

  Book, Thinking, Promise

  "How To Write A Killer Thriller". Interview with AskMan, www.askmen.com.

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• Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with their own moral centers. We might feel those moral centers are mis-calibrated, but they are there and are the rudders that propel them. This makes reading my work a visceral roller coaster, 'cause the reader must embark on the journey of the protagonist equipped only with his or her own moral center.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Reading, Character

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

  Lydia Davis

  Rereading, Mail, Speed

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Names, Perfect

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

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• My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book.

  Steve Valentine

  Book, Blow, Cards

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• My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel

  Gina Gershon

  Goes On, Next, Scared

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• I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

  Diahann Carroll

  Careers, People, Trying

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• Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

  George Papandreou

  Coasters, Up And Down, Greece

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• I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

  Samantha Mumba

  Knowing, Next, Ridiculous

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• My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on "Boardwalk," because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

  Jack Huston

  Girlfriend, Character, Long

  "Jack Huston on Playing ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Masked Fan Favorite Richard Harrow and Making Peace With the Possibility of Getting Killed Off". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2012.

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• In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action.

  Peter Guber

  Creating, Attention, World

  "How to Harness the Power of Storytelling for Your Small Business". Interview with Melinda Emerson, succeedasyourownboss.com. November 21, 2012.

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• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  Aaron Stanford

  Heart, People, Safe

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Approval Rating, Track

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• I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

  Maria Bello

  Lasts, Monogamy, Coasters

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• The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

  Brent Sexton

  Grief, Emotion, Sometimes

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• When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

  Sean Patrick Thomas

  Night, Play, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Heart

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

  Sara Rue

  Emotional, Weight, Coasters

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• There are certain creative jobs where you know you are the person on the line, and there are few guarantees that you're going to be able to crank out hits every year. For the most part, it's a roller coaster. You look at Fox, you look at NBC, you look at ABC, and they've been up and down over the years and in every different position. So if you are somebody who is not afraid of risk and you love the creative process, it's great. Why would you not do it?

  Susan Lyne

  Creative, Risk, Different

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• When I was a kid my dad would say, "Emo, do you believe in the Lord?" I'd say, "Yes!" He'd say, "Then stand up and shout Hallelujah!" So I would ... and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Emo, Dad

  "The best God joke ever - and it's mine!". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• My best career moments have come being a fan first. Because that's why we love sports, and that's why I got into sports - those highs and lows on that roller coaster ride that I don't want to get off - because I enjoy the highs as much as I enjoy the lows. The highs are even better when you experience the lows, and that can apply when rooting for your favorite sports team or your career. It's also important not to get too high or too low, and it's also important not to listen to the noise. You just have to do it for you in those career moments because they're gonna come.

  Linda Cohn

  Sports, Team, Careers

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• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, Thrill

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• When you have nothing but big friends, you never get into arguments - except one. And that is, who is the biggest? I'll let you know right now, there's only one way to settle this. We all get in a bus and we go to Disney and we get on a roller coaster - whoever gets the least amount of clicks on the safety bar is the big one.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Safety, Bars, Way

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• Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

  Alexander Elder

  Winning, Emotional, Missing

  Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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