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• I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.

  Rainn Wilson

  Photography, Block, Writing

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Basically, it's somebody who got stuck having to interview me who really wants to be a novelist, so they're writing these novellas and I was like, "It's not true, that didn't happen, they just made all that up! Why don't they just go ahead and be a novelist instead of bothering with interviewing me?"

  Christian Bale

  Writing, Novelists, Want

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.

  Brad Tavares

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Shadow, Caves

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• Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom, Strive, Strife

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• Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. We articulate the truth of a situation by carrying the whole experience in the voice and allowing the process to blossom of its own accord. Out of the cross-grain of experience appears a voice that not only sums up the process we have gone through, but allows the soul to recognize in its timbre, the color, texture, and complicated entanglements of being alive.

  David Whyte

  Adversity, Color, Voice

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.93, Crown Business

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• Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.

  Patrick McEnroe

  Games, Long, Tennis

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• When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed - thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Believe, Thinking, Air

  "The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran". Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1973.

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• I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Spy, Desperate

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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• So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Yale, Guy, Speech

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

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• Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

  Laura Riding

  Learning, Thinking, Bridges

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• I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

  Marni Jackson

  Inspirational, Baby, Sorry

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• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Humility, Responsibility

  Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul. I'll see you in hell. I see the devil linger on, stuck in my hell.

  Kid Cudi

  Rip, Soul, Devil

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• No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

  Annie Dillard

  Way, Helping, Possibility

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• My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Worst Nightmares, Nightmare, Worst

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• If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

  Rick Warren

  People, Addiction, Temptation

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• The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity. Move to the heart. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem. The only problem is that we think too much. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head. The heart is innocent. The heart is a fountain of love.

  Vasant Lad

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• I'm more influenced by people's attitudes and spirits than by their particular style. Whether it's Elsie de Wolfe or Pauline de Rothschild, I always admire women who had a vision and stuck to it. Because ultimately, the way you live has to be a reflection of you.

  Charlotte Moss

  Attitude, Reflection, People

  "Women in Design: Charlotte Moss". Interview with Mitchell Owens, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Stars, Clever

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• When your dream dies, create another dream; don't waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don't stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Too many people are stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but instead are not, some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment. In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.

  David Cameron

  Life, Issues, People

  "David Cameron calls on obese to accept help or risk losing benefits" by Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.

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• It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, Night, Years

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