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This body is breaking down, but I am not.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

All the little things add up. Whether they were positive or negative, eventually you either see the amazing result or the biggest let down.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.