- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cornered Quotes
Words for when the walls close in.
Nobody plans to end up with their back against the wall, yet these lines keep returning to that exact spot — the second before you either freeze or fight. One writer even compares reading a tough book to being cornered into a long, uncomfortable reckoning. If that resonates, the Acceptance quotes make a fitting next stop.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
- Defend
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- Nov 07, 2020
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020