Down Quotes
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
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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 don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
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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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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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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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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
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I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
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In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.
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I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.
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I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
