Down Quotes
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
