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Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'
Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.
People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.
We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
People will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized. It's not going to work that way. Those days are over.
...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and died.
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.
I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.
Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!
My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.
The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.
For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.
You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.
There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.
Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.