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• I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

  Harriet Martineau

  Inspiration, Hands, Finding Myself

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.156, Broadview Press

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• Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long.

  Phil Robertson

  Prayer, Mean, Two

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

  Yamada Koun

  Drinking, Sleep, Laughing

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

  Robert Hunter

  Sitting, Bathtubs

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• I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Writing, Down And

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• You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

  Zig Ziglar

  Lucky, Ifs, Good Fortune

  Zig Ziglar (2007). “Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Handbook for the Complete Sales Professional”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you're about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Water

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Thinking, Down And

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• Meditation
  practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on
  the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your
  life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are
  capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of
  that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and
  simple.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Kings, Queens, Simple

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

  Martin McDonagh

  Block, Thinking, Laziness

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• Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.

  Debi Mazar

  Home, Heart, People

  "'Extra Virgin’s' Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos on how they stay sweet". Interview with Holley Simmons, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

  Woody Allen

  House, Dinner, Bergman

  "Woody Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

  Dave Winer

  Art, Mind, Trying

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• If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Hands, Able

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• A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Animal, Boys

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• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Sleep, Meditation Practice, Breathing

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• I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say.

  Jimmy Smits

  Independent, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Important, Sitting, Can Do

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Ideas, Inspire

  Source: deadline.com

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• Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Animal, Eight, Cereal

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• I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Fall, Hug

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2009.

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• Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Names, Grass

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• All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

  Dorothy Parker

  Being Thankful, World, Busted

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.94, Penguin

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