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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
First and foremost, that was always my passion: I wanted to wrestle, but unfortunately, it took me down a road that I can't do that anymore.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
- Melody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
- Ups And Downs
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020