- Heart
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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
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once my pilot and I push and jump into the sled, I hold on for dear life in the back while she skillfully and hopefully quickly navigates the two of us down a mile of icy, often bumpy, sharp right and left turns. I then pull the brakes at the end.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit down to write a scene, I have a plan in mind, and I'm thrilled when a character disregards my goals and takes the story to a place I hadn't imagined.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
- Nov 07, 2020
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
- Sweet
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- Nov 07, 2020