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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.
- Guitar Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
- Calmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a role on a TV show for me, I'll take it. If there's a role in a movie, I'll take it. I just wanna act. That's all it comes down to.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.
- Journal
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- Nov 07, 2020