Standing Quotes - Page 19

• Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

  John Grisham

  Country, Book, Cards

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

  Emmitt Smith

  Thinking, Decision, Important

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• I'm standing for real freedom.

  Todd Akin

  Real, Real Freedom

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• Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

  Nina Bawden

  Girl, School, College

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• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  Karen Bass

  Office, Community, Standing Out

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• People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

  Katy B

  Hate, People, Cartoon

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• I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Talking, People, Goes On

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• The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

  Russell Banks

  New York, House, John Brown

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• Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

  Jack Antonoff

  Fighting, Gay, Majority

  "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

  Emma Caulfield

  Thinking, Worst Nightmares, People

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• I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Song, Jesus, Thinking

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• When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Way

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• When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Jumping, People

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  Vince Cable

  Skills, Long, Growth

  "Full text: Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

  Dick Dale

  Son, Ovation, Months

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• I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

  Hope Davis

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Feelings, Preparation

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• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Mother, Tough, Self Made

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• The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

  Robbie Fowler

  Moving, Two, Next Move

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• You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

  Billy Gardell

  Hero, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  Harold H. Greene

  New York, Next Day, Lines

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• If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Talking

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into ‘Toy Story 3’ and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 07, 2010.

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• At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

  Guy Berryman

  School, Thinking, White

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• I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

  Jerry Buss

  White, Chocolate, Lines

  "Jerry Buss, Lakers Owner and Innovator, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2013.

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