Pulling Quotes - Page 15

• [Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

  William Kristol

  People, Political, Attention

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• I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.

  Genie Francis

  Kids, Hair, Sea

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• When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

  Richard Beymer

  Next, Tricks, Exciting

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• I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

  Alex Haley

  Thinking, People, Groups

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• A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Morning, Thinking

  "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

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• Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

  Billy Campbell

  People, Cooking, Sailing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Fake, Documentaries

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

  Aaron Tippin

  Reality, People, Weight

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• My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Inspirational, Heart, Dark

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• Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.

  Iggy Pop

  Real, Pussy, I Can

  Song: Pussy Power

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• Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

  Seth Gabel

  Baby, Children, Blessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

  Shirley Henderson

  Coffee, Brain, Theatre

  "Shirley Henderson: I'm every woman" by Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2011.

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• The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.

  Sharon Horgan

  Writing, People, Competition

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• When the world outside my arms is pulling us apart, press your lips to mine and hold me with your heart.

  Gene Pitney

  Romantic, Heart, World

  Song: True Love Never Runs Smooth

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• I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

  Michael McKean

  Thinking, Robins, Rope

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• I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

  Dev Patel

  Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

  Amy Ryan

  Couple, Pulling Away, Stories

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• I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

  Nicole Richie

  Gone, Bigs, Deals

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• When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Hair, People

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• It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Long, Trying, Teeth

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• If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

  Michael Shannon

  Believe, Sky, Principles

  "Michael Shannon: 'I'm not trying to exorcise any demons'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

  Paullina Simons

  Writing, Mean, Forget You

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• I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

  Gemma Ward

  Thinking, People, Pulling Away

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