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• Don't take anything personally. You're going to come up against a lot and the best thing is to ignore it and don't let the bastards get you down and keep moving forward because you are going to be treated differently.

  Leslye Headland

  Moving, Come Up, Best Things

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Government, Giving, Together

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.

  Ted Alexandro

  Home, Animal, Clubs

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.

  Tom Anderson

  Tv Shows, Ideas, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Whats great about The Avengers is that its the next step. Its not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. Its about superheroes that come together and interact. Its a clash of the egos. You could do Avengers 1 without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

  Louis Leterrier

  Fighting, Winning, Superhero

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• I wouldn't even feel sorry for us if I was going against us. I know teams are licking their chops. The Bulls or Milwaukee, they're excited. Even though somebody is hurt they're still excited because they feel like we're a man down and we might not be as strong, but we're confident here. We got the players to still make something special happen. Guys just have to step up as a unit.

  Tristan Thompson

  Strong, Hurt, Sorry

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• The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

  Mary Pipher

  Country, America, Two

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• Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

  E. L. Doctorow

  Running, Writing, Mean

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• The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.

  Johny Hendricks

  Thinking, Games, Vegas

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

  Jose Mujica

  Solitude, Trying, Shifting

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Jobs, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  "'Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks New Comic 'Jonas Quantum,' DC Crossovers & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. May 13, 2015.

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• There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

  Cate Blanchett

  Girlfriend, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.

  Shari Wiedmann

  Choices, Secret, Enemy

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand.

  Warren Mundine

  Eye, Hands, People

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• You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

  John Cleese

  Months, Mets, Assurance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Example, Students, I've Learned

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• I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

  Justin Verlander

  Curves, Guy, Lefties

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

  Hannah Kent

  People, Listening, Sitting Down

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Thinking

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• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

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• If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

  Muriel Spark

  Writing, Cat, Serenity

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• We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on pretty well. I have challenged him and he has challenged me. His form has been up and down and that can be tough. I suppose we've been lucky. Sourav and I complement each other. We are two different personalities. He is softer than me. I probably spoke my mind in the change rooms in a rougher way than him. Sourav and I formed an odd couple but it seems to have worked.

  John Wright

  Jobs, Couple, Ideas

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