Stuck Quotes - Page 28

• I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he's stuck on roach patrol.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Attitude, Character

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.

  Allison Maslan

  Life, Unknown Worlds, Choices

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• I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

  Bette Davis

  Stuck Up

  Bette Davis (2017). “The Lonely Life: An Autobiography”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.

  Sam Pressman

  Moving, Tourists, Population

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

  Doug Rice

  Challenges, Mind, Together

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she's stuck in that: "Oh my God, this is cute" phase, so when I go shopping with her and my wife, I can only last about 10 minutes before I have to start exploring other parts of the store.

  Bode Miller

  Cute, Girl, Fashion

  "Bode Miller on Life Off the Slopes and His New Deal With Aztech Mountain". Interview with WWD, wwd.com. September 10, 2016.

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• If you're stuck in traffic, call a friend or listen to a favorite podcast. If you're waiting in a long line, make friends with a person in line with you. There are lots of ways we can change the vibe.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Long, Waiting, Lines

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'

  Ed Gordon

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I tell my kids no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. But the world is so competitive that if you're stuck on drugs or alcohol, you're not going to be able to compete. It's going to be a disaster. And you know, it potentially can ruin your life.

  Donald Trump

  Kids, Alcohol, Drug

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Dr. Oz was just as amazingly strange as we thought it would be". www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."

  Ian Bogost

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Reaching, Stop Dreaming

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.

  Chris Hayes

  Moving, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Be bold before you get stuck not being bold.

  Hilary Duff

  "Younger Stars Hilary Duff and Miriam Shor Share Their Best Advice for Twentysomething Women". Interview with Darla Murray, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 26, 2016.

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• What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

  James W. Loewen

  Littles, Narrative, Stuff

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• I had these couple of hippie guy friends who were super broke and living in the attic of somebody's house and they were like, "We don't have any food, man." And so I decided to go to the grocery store and steal chicken pot pie. And I stuck it inside my clothes. I took a couple frozen chicken pot pies and stuck them inside my pants, and I got caught walking out of the store. And they took me in the back room, and - luckily, I was 14, but I had a fake ID saying I was 18, so they didn't call my parents.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Couple, Hippie, Men

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

  Petra Haden

  Dog, Would Be, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

  Petra Haden

  Jobs, Eight, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

  Elton John

  Piano, Feet, Nine

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with different photographers for fashion shoots, or different art forms. You're never stuck. You're going at a different level. You're sucking in things, rather than closing. You're trying things out.

  Sergei Polunin

  Fashion, Art, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood, but I do feel that some of the things my parents said to me and how they raised me really stuck with me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Childhood, Parent, This Life

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

  Sonia Braga

  Memories, Blade Runner, Stand By Me

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

  Van Jones

  Entrepreneur, Energy, Calling

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, Long, Identity

  Source: www.npr.org

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