Sitting Quotes - Page 14

• You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

  Katy Perry

  "Katy Perry on 'Wide Awake,' Film Aspirations and the 'Part of Me' DVD Release (Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 5, 2012.

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• There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

  Matthew Perry

  Giving Up, Fighting, Two

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• Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

  Rick Perry

  Mean, Men, Ideas

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• I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

  Rick Perry

  Coffee, Men, Talking

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• Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

  Pink

  Reading, Home, Careers

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• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  Natalie Portman

  New Year, Party, Lectures

  "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.

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• I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Glasses, Hands

  "I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK", www.dailymail.co.uk. August 3, 2009.

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• I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Keeping Secrets, Perception

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• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Inspirational, Birthday, Quilts

  "The Power and Solidarity of Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 09, 2016.

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• Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

  Ryan Reynolds

  Believe, New Orleans, Agents

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• Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

  Condoleezza Rice

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

  Don Rickles

  Hurt, Fun, Insecurity

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• I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

  Don Rickles

  Book, Writing, Tired

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• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Waiting, Explosions

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Hate, Teaching

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 1" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

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• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Thinking, Rooms

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.9, University of Illinois Press

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• I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

  Adam Sandler

  Writing, Buddy

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

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• I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Jobs, Grieving, Nurse

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

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• I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

  Eric Schmidt

  Believe, Book, Reading

  "Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is "Unlikely" To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. Mar 7, 2009.

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• I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

  Amy Sedaris

  Writing, Feet, Sitting Down

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2006.

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• I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

  David Sedaris

  Book, People, Records

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