Staying Quotes - Page 39

• I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.

  Geena Davis

  Home, Good Luck, Always Trying

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and were selected for. Biding your time, deferring gratification, staying still, foregoing sex for safety, and so forth, is essential in getting food, in surviving, and in successful reproduction.

  Patricia Churchland

  Strong, Sex, Successful

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

  Winona Ryder

  Advice, Mermaid, Teens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fly almost every week to and from Vancouver, so staying hydrated is super important.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Important, Vancouver, Week

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!

  Rahki

  Beautiful, Sky, Knowing

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.

  Shane Bunting

  Cutting, Artist, Roots

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Well there's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand. But offseason is really important because generally I'm staying off the sand and getting my feet under me, and it's really important for my body to know what it feels like to have sound footing under me.

  Kerri Walsh

  Volleyball, Beach, Feet

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Every time I've gone to Brazil I've gotten sick upon return. You know, it's just a different situation there. And I take every precaution - eating cooked foods and staying away from tap water, brushing my teeth with bottled water - and yet I still manage to get sick. So I'm just going to stay on point, bring my probiotics.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sick, Water, Brazil

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

  Ayshay

  Mother, Stories, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.

  Laura Mullen

  Pain, Real, Healing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Home, Trying, Records

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Easy, Relevant, Marketplace

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Chaos, Steering

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

  Frank Gaffney

  Military, Europe, President

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• Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

  Bill Gates

  Creativity, People, Creative

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, Reading, School

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

  Al Goldstein

  Cheating, Stay Strong, Divorce

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• It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

  Larry Hagman

  Cancer, Believe, Worry

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• We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Stay Strong, Winning

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• Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

  Horatio Nelson

  Night, Order, Years

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• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sleep, Late, Happens

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• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Sympathy, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

  Suze Orman

  Risk, Financial, Well Being

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• Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

  Bobby Orr

  Stay Strong, Helping, Boxes

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• People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Girl, Party, Home

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