- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Down Quotes
Working the count, and watching things slip.
This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
- Optimistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020