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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
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't finish it until eight years later.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Savio Vega kept pushing me, pushing me, as he was teaching me, too, how to be a heel and things. And how to... 'Let's just try this tonight: just, we'll lock up, you'll go behind me, rub up and down my chest.'
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the library and found lots of material about this time, about the Freedom March and what was going on down there in 1964.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.
- Entails
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- Nov 07, 2020
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Male bonding is the idea of having the confidence to say, 'I'm going to take you down.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020