Stuck Quotes - Page 25

• If you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "What am I gonna do?" But my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. And he had already told me "Whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife."

  Anthony Ray Hinton

  Years, Wife, My Best Friend

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

  Stef Penney

  Would Be, Novel, Ifs

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

  Valerie June

  People, Forever, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Moving, Years, Typewriters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that. But the Earth has the power to shape us much more powerfully. To survive climate change, we'll have to realize how dependent we are on our ecosystems for our own survival.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Survival

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO

  Zachary Lazar

  Nice, Narrators, Peculiar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.

  Astra Taylor

  Believe, Creating, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

  Craig Finn

  Down And, Bigs, Big Things

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

  Dean Wareham

  Technology, Scary, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

  Tom Barbash

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Great Writers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

  Sam Amidon

  Singing, Lines, Singers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Writing, Style

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, March 1, 2015.

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• People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.

  Michael Helm

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

  Matthew Specktor

  Running, Records, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the immigration thing has really stuck to Marco Rubio. He was on the wrong side of what`s emerged as probably the most important issue for the conservative base.

  Josh Barro

  Thinking, Issues, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've had a reoccurring dream about hanging out with Britney Spears, so maybe it would be fun to chill with her for a bit? Like, see what makes her tick. I had this dream once about Britney, that we were going to get married or something, and so I had to meet her parents but we were stuck on a beach in these sand dunes - and at this point between the dreams and self-portrait, you know way too much about me.

  Gabriel Mann

  Dream, Beach, Fun

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• The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

  Owen Wilson

  Memories, School, Fields

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

  Tom DeLonge

  Labels, Band, Holding On

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• The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Eras, Publishing, Industry

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• When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Problem, Shops

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I kind of took inspiration from my time in Paris. That was kind of the real time when I discovered European fashion. It's stuck with me since University.

  Olivia Palermo

  Fashion, Real, Inspiration

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing.

  Christian Fennesz

  Fans, Attention, Austria

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.

  Carolyn Hax

  Talking, Knowing, People

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.

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• I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

  Carolyn Hax

  Successful, Filling In, Time To Kill

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.

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