Sitting Quotes - Page 13

• When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

  Ang Lee

  Couple, Schedules, Research

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  Damian Lewis

  Play, Two, Roles

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• After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

  Demi Lovato

  Home, Auditions, Wonder

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• Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Tolerance, Trying, Prejudice

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• If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Business, Book, Mean

  Stanley v. Georgia (1969)

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• My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Writing, Perfect Days, Heaven

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• One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Song, Guitar

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• Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Party, Past, Political

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• At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

  Paul Merton

  Heart, Night, Sausage

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• When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

  Joyce Meyer

  Blessing, Thinking, Talking

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• It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

  Joyce Meyer

  Salad Dressing, Together, Add

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• Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Popcorn, Roles

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• I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then give back. That way, they're not sitting in my wardrobe with me looking at them and feeling guilty. I love that, and I think when people have a fabulous function to go to, I'd recommend renting.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ghost Stories, Japan, Hands

  "Shigeru Miyamoto talks 'Legend of Zelda',' 'Mariokart'". Interview with Darren Franich, ew.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Inspiring, Girl

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.43, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Stars, Trying

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.70, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

  Michael Moore

  Guy, Three, Target

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

  Errol Morris

  Phones, Might, Next

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• It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

  Van Morrison

  Play, America, Sitting Down

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• I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Exercise, Everyday

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• Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Cutting, Hair

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• I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

  Bess Myerson

  Style, Rooms, Conniving

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• I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Sitting Down, Outsiders, Castro

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• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  Barack Obama

  Class, Mind, Special

  "Obama Tells Republicans to 'Sit in Back'". Speech, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

  Carre Otis

  Mean, Long, Watching Tv

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