Down Quotes
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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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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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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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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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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 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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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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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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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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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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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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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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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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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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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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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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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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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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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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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
