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• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  Bear Grylls

  Sweat, People, Tables

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• You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

  Dorothy Parker

  Being Thankful, World, Busted

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.94, Penguin

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• Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Names, Grass

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• The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Reality, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.286, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Love You, Forever

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.18, Grove Press

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• I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Fall, Hug

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2009.

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• There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Writing, Night

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.88, BookBaby

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• Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Thinking, Race

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• Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ham, Pouring, Drink

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• How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fighting, Simple, Thinking

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.576, Macmillan

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• Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wizards, Crowds, Standing Out

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• According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Lying, Law, Movement

  Gilles Deleuze (2005). “Francis Bacon”, p.29, A&C Black

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• So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Girl, Mean, Gay

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• The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Desire, Down And, Conjuring

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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• Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Memories, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.436, Wordsworth Editions

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• You write by sitting down and writing.  There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.  How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Down And, Matter

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.

  Cherie Priest

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Men, Race, Other Worlds

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• Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Animal, Eight, Cereal

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• I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

  Wole Soyinka

  Writing, Important, Gestation

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• I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

  Nat King Cole

  Fairy Stories, Piano, Tooth Fairy

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• There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Epic

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• I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

  Joanne Whalley

  Decision, Want, Down And

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

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• If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

  Janis Joplin

  Men, Thinking, Rock And Roll

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