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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
- Exerting
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- Nov 07, 2020
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories.
- Break
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
- Lovely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020