Back And Forth Quotes - Page 8

• I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

  Avicii

  Writing, Lines, Want

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

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• I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.

  W. G. Sebald

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Art, Atmosphere, Trying

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• You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

  Michael Nesmith

  Years, Data, Ideas

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• Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Moving, Blood, Unhappy

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  Dan Chaon

  Different, Three, Hops

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• There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Jobs, Mean, United States

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• And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.

  Griffin Dunne

  Independent, Long, Stories

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

  Karen Allen

  Son, Parent, Missing

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• Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

  Jane Campion

  Reading, Eight, Years

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• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  Zachary Knighton

  Jobs, Drama, Giving

  "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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• My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

  Stephen Root

  Jobs, Careers, Done

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  Laughing, Energy, Levels

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• He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.

  William Kristol

  Crazy, Thinking, Eight

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• When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Moving, Book, Giving

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• I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  Geoff Stults

  Drama, Blessed, Careers

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• I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Library, Remember

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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• CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

  Chris Stein

  Real, Rocks, Elements

  Source: time.com

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• I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.

  Donal Logue

  Lucky, Enough

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview Terriers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

  Ben Shahn

  Shapes, Painting, Affair

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Hands, Long, Technique

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.120, Northwestern University Press

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• Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

  Will Rogers

  Character, Watches, Politics

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.

  Lucy Liu

  Country, Chinese, Age

  "Lucy Liu Talks 3 Needles". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. November 27, 2006.

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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