Pulling Quotes - Page 18

• Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Couple, Airports

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Once people see you pulling off one role, they think youre a safe bet to do a similar role.

  Margot Robbie

  Thinking, People, Roles

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• On Death Valley, I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  Caity Lotz

  Fun, Jumping, Guy

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Caity Lotz". Esquire Interviwe, www.esquire.com. January 14, 2015.

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• Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dust, Storm, Cyclones

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• Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Golf, Opportunity

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• My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

  Gail Sheehy

  Mother, Age, Way

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• Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Skills, Understanding

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

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• Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Blessed, Writing

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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

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

  Shelley Long

  Lunch, Plot, Looks

  Source: www.gq.com

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Goal, Together

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• you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Light, Car, Rope

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• Confidence: It's the difference between the girl with the perfect body in a one-piece bathing suit, pulling at it and thinking she's not thin enough or doesn't have big enough boobs - and the girl who people call a bit overweight, but meanwhile, she's wearing a bikini and guys are saying, "God, she's sexy." It all has to do with how you feel about yourself - it's about projecting the attitude, I'm OK with who I am.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Sexy, Attitude

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

  Michael Gira

  Song, Real, Commitment

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

  Bernard Membe

  Country, Uncles, Blow

  "Unity will end crises, Membe tells Africa" by Austin Beyadi, The Guardian, March 28, 2008.

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• Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.

  Vance Havner

  People, Vision, Venture

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• Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.

  Aimee Liu

  Safety, Anxiety, Inward

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• You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Team, Exercise, People

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• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

  Selma Blair

  Voice, People, Acting

  "Selma Blair interview: 'I could be living in a castle right now, with Tom Cruise'". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2012.

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• I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

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• In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

  Jean Hersey

  Spring, Winter, March

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  Ed Stoppard

  Jobs, Book, Two

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• Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.

  Richard Wyckoff

  Reading, Successful, Judging

  Richard Wyckoff (2006). “Studies in Tape Reading”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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