- Mountain
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
- T-Shirt
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to wear a track suit and T-shirt while training. But that did not go down well with the villagers, because women are usually supposed to wear salwar kameez.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020