Sitting Quotes - Page 36

• I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

  Dolly Parton

  Fall, High Heels, Wind

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

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• I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

  Sandra Bullock

  Grateful, Blessed, Want

  "Sandra Bullock Opens Up in Vogue About Son Louis and Her Career". www.latimes.com. September 17, 2013.

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• Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

  Brian Eno

  Shelves

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

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• I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

  Elton John

  Selfish, Years, Drug

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• So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.

  Demi Lovato

  Crazy, Two, Forever

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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, Sitting Down, Want

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

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• I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

  Kim Hunter

  Writing, Doctors, Pills

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• It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

  Karl Pilkington

  Dying, Pandas, Eating

  "3 Minute Wonder (Some Thoughts by Karl Pilkington: Life)". TV Series, August 14, 2006.

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• A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Waiting, Waiting For You

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• All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

  Kelly Lynch

  Believe, Dark, People

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• The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Air, Dashboards, Top Gear

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• If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Thinking, Media

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• My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.

  Joel Madden

  Christian, Mom, Brother

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• If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Wall, Artist, Rooms

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• Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Lockers, Rooms, Locker Room

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• That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

  Alison Krauss

  Song, Rain, Car

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• I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.

  Sheryl Crow

  Stupid, Thinking, Law

  "Sheryl Crow Under Fire for Toilet Paper Proposal" by April Rabkin, www.motherjones.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

  Sheryl Crow

  Squares, Paper, Toilets

  "Singer's toilet paper musings leave Rove untouched" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I love Fear Factor, but I think they're running out of fears. It's only a matter of time before they're sitting around doing shots of Hepatitis C.

  Dave Attell

  Running, Thinking, Hepatitis C

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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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• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Men, Preparation, Gestures

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

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• I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

  Katie McGrath

  People, Actresses, Looks

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• I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

  Renee O'Connor

  Thinking, Knowing, Joy

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• My kids learned to color on this table. There's been a lot that's went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to 'Good Hearted Woman.' Sitting in that chair. This table's a bit like life. It's a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Believe, Kids, Color

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• The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

  David Gilmour

  Ideas, House, Listening

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