Sticks Quotes - Page 24

• I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

  Jenna Elfman

  Mean, Pieces, Comedy

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Thinking, Knowing, World

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• It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

  Lou Gramm

  Down And, Moved, Seventies

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• It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• I can fish from a stick and a string.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Strings, Fishes, I Can

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

  Garth Ennis

  Wall, Book, Superhero

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• I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

  Alan Furst

  Office, Brain, Want

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• I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

  David Bowie

  Baby, Years, Compliment

  Song: Golden Years, 1976

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• Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to your vision and you're true to yourself, it kind of works. I mean, it's tough. It's a big Fitzcarraldo journey, but then you'll have your good karma at the end of the day. You'll have your good soul. You know, if you start to sell little bits of it, you, you become nothing and nobody, and you don't have any vision remaining.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Karma, Mean, Journey

  "Lynne Ramsay Talks WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, the Patti Smith Biopic, Adapting FRANKENSTEIN & Her Sci-Fi Take On DAS BOOT Meets MOBY DICK In Outer Space". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

  Little Richard

  Girl, Skinny, Macaroni

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

  Chubby Checker

  Games, Nimble, Nursery

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

  Don McLean

  Fire, Games, Devil

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• The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

  Edie Falco

  Long, World, Enough

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• My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

  Michael Franti

  Hurt, Fighting, Names

  "'The troops thought: this guy's got balls'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can't stick to one ensemble, I don't think I could stick to one tattoo.

  Dree Hemingway

  Tattoo, Thinking, Ensemble

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• My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Mom, Baby, Jobs

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• The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

  Brande Roderick

  Challenges, Hiv, Mature

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• Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

  Chubby Checker

  Ducks, Dancing

  Song: The Hucklebuck

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• Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

  Billy Bragg

  Gay, Common, Turns

  Billy Bragg (2015). “A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  Stevie Wonder

  Veins, Unanswered Questions, Needles

  Song: Jesus Children Of America, Album: Innervisions, 1973

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• I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Perseverance, Thinking, Way

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

  Dean Norris

  Teacher, Kids, Gun

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

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• The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Reading, Skills, Personality

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

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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