Standing There Quotes - Page 2

• Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Writing, Dedication

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• Lesbian?” Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there. Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson’s. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the “New Payton,” or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D. It’s just an excuse, the lesbian thing,” she said.

  Julie James

  Wine, Successful, Promise

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• I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

  Denis Johnson

  Mother, Husband, Leaving

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.39, Macmillan

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• If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

  Barbara Corcoran

  Forever, Way, Guts

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Apr 22, 2014

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• I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Thinking, People, Balls

  "Phil Jackson talks Lakers, his future, Dwight Howard, more". Interview with Jack Mccallum, www.si.com. February 19, 2013.

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• How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Girl, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

  Scott Walker

  Winning, America, Issues

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• It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

  Bruce Beresford

  Character, Singers, Wonderful

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• When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"

  Jim Sturgess

  Baby, Real, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Life Is Good, America

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• I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.

  Sarah Paulson

  Thinking, Play, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

  Blake Lively

  Heaven, Needs, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

  Aaron Neville

  Prayer, Book, Years

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• I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

  Hope Davis

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

  Walter Murch

  Hard Work, Hands, People

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• I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

  Daryn Kagan

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  "Oscars and the 'Oh, wow' factor" by Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2003.

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• I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Talking, People, Goes On

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• At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

  Lance Armstrong

  Christian, Book, Judging

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, 2000.

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• Vinyl, CDs or laptops, it doesn't matter - you should use whatever
  you're comfortable with. If you're on the dancefloor and there's
  good music coming out of the speakers, that should be enough. If
  you're standing there storing your chin going: 'This would sound
  better if it was on vinyl', yes it might do, but at the end of the
  day, people want to go to a party.

  John Digweed

  Party, Cds, People

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• I have the mohawk,even though people still call it the mohawk I say "I don't wanna be disrespectful to the Mohican Indians but there is a tribe in Africa called the Mandinka warriors." They're in the west coast of Africa in the country of Mali.I was reading National Geographic Magazine back in 1977, and I saw the warrior standing there with his spear and his beads around his neck and whatnot and the stuff on his ankles. That was what gave me the idea, I said "Wow, let me bring respect to them," so basically what I wear is called a Mandinka cut.

  Mr. T

  Country, Reading, Warrior

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

  Stephen Dillane

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.

  Charlize Theron

  Jobs, Life And Love, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do.

  Holly Madison

  Easter, Kids, Useless

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• I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

  Elton John

  Clever, Fans, Stuff

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