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- Nov 07, 2020
Flailing Quotes
The messy middle before things click.
Some quotes admit to years spent flailing in their twenties and thirties without a clear plan, pushing back on the idea that they were simply chaotic. See Advice quotes for guidance on getting unstuck.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's just noise. And without knowing why you're moving your body, it's just flailing of arms.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
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- Nov 07, 2020