Down And Quotes - Page 24

• I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

  Amanda Palmer

  Song, Ideas, Enough

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

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• I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

  Jon Anderson

  Believe, People, Get Better

  "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.

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• The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. Were the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that were down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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• God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?

  Sheryl Crow

  Strong, Fighting, Men

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• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  Hank Johnson

  Jobs, Feet, Faults

  "Ryan Budget More Fuzzy Math and Magic Asterisks" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that's just me) as if you've never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And often, when you get to the end you'll be both enthusiastic about it and know what the next few words are. And you do it all one word at a time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Irritation, Up Early

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• To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women.

  Kate Bornstein

  Children, Growing Up, Hero

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• I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

  Shane Carruth

  Hard Times, Tv Shows, Philadelphia

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• When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

  Dan Auerbach

  Simple, Play, Hip Hop

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• From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.

  Katie Aselton

  Thinking, Actors, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

  Woody Allen

  Brother, Symphony, Giving

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.

  Tony Robbins

  Home, Thinking, Government

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays it all out on the line and baits the artist, like a light baits a mosquito. And you go right into it. With every comment on the internet, you go up, you go down, and it's a big shitshow full of uneducated people.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Artist, Light, Issues

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

  Russ Wilcox

  Eagles, Essence, Flying

  "Newspapers: The Future". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2005.

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• The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being.

  Misha Collins

  Angel, Animal, Sea

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

  Yoko Ono

  Insecure, Feelings, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

  John Travolta

  Issues, Passing Away, Resolve

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• My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.

  Young Jeezy

  Cat, Ghetto, Games

  "Status Ain’t Hood Interviews Young Jeezy". Interview with Tom Breihan, www.villagevoice.com. August 23, 2005.

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• The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

  Bill Gates

  Military, War, Atlanta

  "A Q&A with Bill Gate". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

  Jason Aldean

  Notebook, Dad, Teaching

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". A-T Interview, www.audio-technica.com.

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• I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

  Creed Bratton

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.talive.com

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• Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.

  One9

  Art, Integrity, Technology

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• I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Writing, Dark

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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