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• I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

  Eric Schmidt

  Believe, Book, Reading

  "Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is "Unlikely" To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. Mar 7, 2009.

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• I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

  Amy Sedaris

  Writing, Feet, Different

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2006.

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• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Interesting, Needs, News

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• When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hate, Differences, Creating

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2006.

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• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Writing, Positive Thinking

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.

  Darynda Jones

  Two, Doe, Three

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.

  Naomi Novik

  Together, Firsts, Skirts

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.212, Del Rey

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• I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Eye, Tea, Asking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.101, e-artnow

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• Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.

  Graham King

  Talking, Creating, Likes

  Source: collider.com

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• It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

  Gerald Brenan

  Morning, Attitude, Writing

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• Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

  Maria von Trapp

  Memories, Hands, Games

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• There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Writing, Mad

  "That difficult first novel" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2007.

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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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• John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don’t read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.

  KL Going

  Powerful, Book, Love Life

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• If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

  Joe DiMaggio

  Salary, Statistics, Dave

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• The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Voice, Perfect

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• It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

  Robert E. Lee

  Walking Away, Doors, Feelings

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• I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Dance, Swans

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• One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

  J. K. Rowling

  Regret, Knowing, Would Be

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• There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Issues, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Commitment, Persistence, Stumbling

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