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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
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the studio from its financial straits and it gave a real boost to my movie career.
- Busily
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.
- Nov 07, 2020
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that I can try that's different that I can put my heart into? I'm so down.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never fall down. I always fight.
- Nov 07, 2020
For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020