Down Quotes
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.
Garry Kasparov -
It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
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I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'
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It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.
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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
