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I’d still be nice to you if you were ugly.” “Okay.” A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, “I just wouldn’t offer you any cookies.

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

There's no down time any more.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if you still love the dirt, then I think you should stay on board.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

Jumping up and down is definitely sexy," Vayl assured me. "Would you like to do it two or three times right now before we get down to business?" Sterling and Cole groaned at the same time "Ewww!

YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me. "Dude, calm down, I'll wash it afterward. It's probably dishwasher safe.

You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.

People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!

Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.

I've had lots of setbacks. mainly injuries and undergoing surgery, but I just have to knuckle down and get on with it.

I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much