- Doing
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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
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the 1940s, people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now, in the modern age, we're down to around 6.7, 6.8 hours a night.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Madonna is untouchable. She is absolutely lovely. On a personal level, she's everything you would expect. She's so down to earth.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.
- Nov 07, 2020
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.
- Dancing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was offered 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I turned it down because that celebrity world is not what I'm into.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extremely difficult to dink and dunk all the way down the field. Defenses are just too good.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
- Fiction Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020