Stuck Quotes - Page 24

• I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.

  Corey Taylor

  Years, Guy, Trying

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• I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.

  Bradford Dillman

  Character, Support, Challenges

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

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• When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

  Rufus Sewell

  Drama, School, Opposites

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I want to get married but I look at husbands the same way I look at tattoos. I want one, but I can't decide what I want, and I don't want to be stuck with something I'd grow to hate and have surgically removed.

  Margaret Cho

  Tattoo, Husband, Hate

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• Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Communication, Inspiration

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.107, Random House

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• Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

  Rodney Yee

  Practice, Boredom, Feelings

  "Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee on Finding Your Inner Yoga". Interview with Eva Norlyk Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.

  Kate Upton

  Good Friend, Thinking, Two

  "Kate Upton Talks Friends, Fears And Guilty Pleasures For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

  Meg Cabot

  Teacher, Dad, Regret

  Interview with Joyce Lamb, www.azcentral.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Long, Healthy, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

  Masi Oka

  School, College, Taught Us

  "Masi Oka: Coder, actor, hero". www.wired.com. October 25, 2006.

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• What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people's heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That's what the great filmmakers did for me. I've got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Brain, Important

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• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Snakes, Pistols, Moses

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• If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

  Ron Paul

  Country, School, Gun

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• Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

  Rajneesh

  Secret, Movement, Life Is

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

  Jana Kramer

  Determination, Might, Too Much

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

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• It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? It was one thing to be totally alone on V-day, but another to want to be with someone who would rather spend the evening protesting love instead of making it.

  Kate Madison

  Party, Valentine, Home

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• I bought a house right before the housing crisis happened. So I paid too much and then I was stuck with it for a long time. So that was sad for me. I was like, "I'd better make a movie about this to get it out of my system."

  Hamish Linklater

  Long, House, Too Much

  Source: screenrant.com

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• In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up in rooms they are freer than when they are wandering about in the world.

  Paul Auster

  Book, People, World

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• When I was 14 years old, I literally just had to cut off all my ends because I was just a frizzball from the sun, like I absolutely killed my hair. So from that day on, I had leave-in conditioner stuck to me 24/7.

  Laura Enever

  Cutting, Hair, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

  Grimes

  Thinking, Music Is

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

  Jess Walter

  Thinking, Stories, Pops

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Editors, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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