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I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.

Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Fares are higher [and] people don't travel as much. If they don't do that, it doesn't have the trickle down effect into the economy and the other sectors.

Even though Brazil has been up and down and had some difficulties, it's still a very big country, and a very important country. It's got the fourth largest domestic market in the world.

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.