Sticks Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

  Grant Bowler

  Running, Character, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

  Sheena Easton

  Eye, Trying, Scope

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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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• Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

  Alice Cooper

  Dust, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Hey Stoopid, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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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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• Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Games, May, Stones

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• Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

  Tracy Lawrence

  Heart, Games, Two

  Song: Sticks and Stones

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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've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

  Shenae Grimes

  Girl, School, Kids

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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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• While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Government, Carrots, Congress

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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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• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  Radha Mitchell

  Art, Ideas, America

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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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• Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

  Ian Dury

  Nice, Insanity, Rhythm

  Song: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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• What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

  Ron Rash

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

  Scott Ritter

  Government, Issues, Going Out

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