- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folded Quotes
These folded quotes cover a range of meanings, from a dark mood folding away after hours of writing to a compact travel kit and the body language of folded arms.
Something folded can mean closure, compactness, or a defensive stance, and these quotes about being folded touch on all three across Life and creative work.
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- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program.
- Eraser
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember what it feels like to be fourteen or sixteen, to have the world folded out in front of you, and to have a million choices ahead. I also remember what it feels like to be so open and impressionable and to want something so badly it's impossible to see that maybe it isn't the best thing for you.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.
- Protein
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.
- Combustion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020