Stuck Quotes - Page 33

• You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

  Andrew Davies

  Being Yourself, People, Important

  "This much I know". Interview with Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Boys, Phones

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• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Way, Comedy

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• But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Air, Amsterdam, Scripts

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• I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Average, Ridiculous

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

  Brian Eno

  Country, Years, Weight

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• With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Rapper, Play

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• As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Frozen, Movement, Ends

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• A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

  Mary Garden

  Moving, Anger, Creativity

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• I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Random Things

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

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• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Loss, Thinking, Years

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

  Keith Henson

  People, Skins, Gullible

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• When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Morning, Jobs, Years

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 03, 2006.

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• Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Math, Winter

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Long, Fans, Done

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• I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Drama, College, Years

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• I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

  Anthony Hopkins

  School, Promise, Acting

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• I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

  Hugh Jackman

  Summer, Good Friend, Night

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• You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

  Janet Jackson

  Style, Veins, Flavor

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• You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

  Janis Joplin

  White, Racism, People

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• When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Ice, Play

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• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Life, Encouraging

  "Happy to be Here". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1983.

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• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  Val Kilmer

  Next, Beatty, Ifs

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

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