Stuck Quotes - Page 32

• I can say that if you're a writer who happens to be a woman, you'll get a book cover that depicts a woman with no head, or a woman turning away, or a pair of high heels. You have to fight to not get stuck with these covers. In the U.S. women are chick-lit writers unless they prove otherwise, and that's frustrating.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Fighting, Frustrating

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• I saw this film Moon, it's directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son. Sam Rockwell plays this astronaut that is stuck in a space station on the moon. You just have to see it. It's easy to do something really cheesy with sci-fi, and to do something that's already been done, but I think the story was something I hadn't heard before, so it was really great.

  Kelcey Ayer

  Son, Moon, Thinking

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• I think Stanley Tucci was having an affair with his mother. He had this odd quality that I haven't seen him ever get to do again in a movie that just made me think he's got some chops. He's got a strangeness to him, but he's also clearly been stuck in this role because of his looks and his type. He's been really pigeonholed, I felt.

  Greg Mottola

  Mother, Thinking, Quality

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• I decided, when I started having kids, that I'd try not to do anything that I wouldn't be proud for them to see. I've kind of stuck with that, and I don't regret that at all, although I've lost money and passed up a lot of projects because of it. But I feel good about that.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Regret, Kids, Feel Good

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• In general, the musicians we met that made the most sense just said to do what feels right and try not worry about what other people think. I know that sounds stupid and simple. I feel like Neil Young has done that and he's still making albums. He's one of the people I really look up to as someone who has kind of stuck to their guns their whole career. Just making music for music.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Stupid, Gun, Simple

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• I had a mom and a pop who kept telling me that I was wonderful at a very early age. So when someone said to me, "Oh, you're stuck up. Who do you think you are?" I'd say, "I know who I am, and I don't mind being stuck up".

  Diahann Carroll

  Mom, Thinking, Mind

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• My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Giving, Beggar

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• The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  Malin Akerman

  Character, Years, Creating

  "Malin Akerman: The new face of adult swim?". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

  Tyra Banks

  Running, Athlete, Want

  "Tyra Banks takes final spin on the runway". Interview with The Associated Press, chronicle.augusta.com. December 5, 2005.

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• A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Teacher, Memories, Latin

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• I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck ,so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it.

  Lewis Black

  Stress, Trying, Way

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• If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

  Mary J. Blige

  Journey, Understanding, Goes On

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• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

  David Bowie

  Lasts, Drag, Resorts

  The FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

  Jo Brand

  Moving, Thinking, Trying

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• The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Rocks, Games, Band

  "Rock Band vs. Real Band". www.slate.com. November 27, 2007.

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• New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

  Herb Caen

  Gloomy, Mutual, New Yorkers

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• I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Speech, Language

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• Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Differences, People

  "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.

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• The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Business, Commitment, Weight Loss

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

  Diablo Cody

  Mean, Past, Self

  "Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dream, Princess, Cowboy

  Colbert's Commencement Address at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 17, 2011.

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• An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

  William Cowper

  Tails, Way, Epigrams

  William Cowper, Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (1971). “Poetical works”

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• I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

  Roger Daltrey

  Fighting, Broken, Way

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

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• My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Chocolate, Antlers

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