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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
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never go to another club in the Bundesliga. After Bayern Munich, it would only be a step down.
- Pasta
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- Childish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020