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“When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”

Home Wish Adventure Safe Travel Funny Travel Wish You Trekking Strolling Inspirational Adventure

Author:Thornton Wilder

“When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.”

Source: Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary

“When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.”

Thinking Giving Mind Fall Brave Scared Panic Falling Apart

Author:John Marsden

Source: The Dead of Night

“When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.”

Inspirational Made Life Is Hurt Scared Hanging On Hurting You

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.”

Ifs World Giving Stills Done Seems Dies Ready Giving Up Scared Familiar Let It Go Hanging On Ready To Die

Author:Sebastian Junger

“When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."”

Feels Voice Like You Void Drowning One Friend That One Friend Fill The Void

Author:Nelly Furtado

“When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.”

Life Mean Given Say Anything Given Up Last Lecture

Author:Randy Pausch

Source: The last lecture

“When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.”

Should Pleasure Example Drink Seeking Contemplating Food And Drink

Author:Peter Adamson

“When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.”

Language Perfect Products Politician Selling Wrong Words

Author:Frank Luntz

“When you're sending emails, you live and die by your subject line. Making it personal or funny can increase your open rate 10 times or more. At the very least, try to pitch some value rather than pointless bragging. 'Work Faster!' is better than 'Version 10.4 now available!'”

Trying Values Dies Lines Subjects Increase Rate Available Versions Faster Email Pointless Bragging

Author:John Wall

“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.”

Want Firsts Ends Lasts Song Order Records Journey Sticks Maps Listeners Sequencing

Author:Dave Grohl

“When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.”

Lying Serious Addict

Author:Diamond Dallas Page

“When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.”

Done Strong Levels Locals Serving Things Done Personal Relationships Strong Person

Author:Wendy Davis

“When you're seventeen or eighteen, you bomb on in pre-season immediately, try to impress. But then at the end of pre-season because you were so fast at the beginning, your times aren't getting any better and it looks like you actually aren't getting fitter.”

Trying Looks Ends Like You Seasons Bombs Impress Eighteen Seventeen Pre Season

Author:Colin Kazim-Richards

“When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.”

Ifs Trying Kind Age Creative Figures Twenties Impact Who You Are Work Out Artistic Seventeen

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.”

Years Grateful Green Guidance Seventeen Seventeen Years Old Guidance And Direction

Author:Christina Aguilera

“When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.”

Hell Holes Mud Sub Saharan Africa

Author:Dennis Miller

“When you're sharing the music, you're not buying the CD. When you're sharing that video, you're not buying the TV. But we thought, really, there'd be a firewall. While near-zero marginal cost would impact virtual goods, we never thought it would move over to the physical world.”

World Moving

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.”

Want Next

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.”

Want Lasts Seasons Scripts Shooting Odd Tone Episodes

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.”

I Can Film Dad Husband My Family Shooting Drag Location

Author:Eric Bana

“When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.”

I Can Eye Imagine Hair Directors Lows Aspect Productions Luxury Shooting Budgets Department Part Time Catering

Author:Amber Sealey

“When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.”

Thinking Interesting

Author:Mark Sheppard

“When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.”

Home Shooting Amazing Things Away From Home

Author:Adam Sandler

“When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.”

Different Shows Television Performances Response Scripts Shooting Finding Yourself Episodes Rating Television Shows Different Directions Lizzy

Author:Lizzy Caplan

“When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.”

Use Acting Skills Clubs Shooting

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.”

Knows Looks Ends Reason Dream Loses Wake Up Track Shooting Hotel Staying Where You Are Singapore Hong Kong

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.”

Thinking Should Mind Different Character Moving Particular Clothes Shooting Different Characters

Author:Kate Moss

“When you're shopping you forget about eating!”

Forget Eating Shopping

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“When you're shopping, too, you feel like you're designing as you're shopping. You're like, 'I love this, but I wish it was shorter or I wish it was purple. I wish it was a different fabric,' you know. It starts there, but then when you have to start from scratch, it really comes with an idea first, and then... you want to tweak and then you come up with something else and you want to add to it or change. It's fun. It's like an ocean - you can do whatever.”

Knows Want Feels Firsts Ideas Different Fun Wish Can Do Design Like You Ocean Add Come Up Shopping Fabric Scratches Purple Tweak

Author:Rihanna

“When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.”

Kind Behinds Photography Cameras Active Shy Passive Observers Shields Entry Shyness

Author:Lynn Johnston

“When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.”

Care Like You Mom Sick Take Care Your Mom

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.”

Health Sick Credit Cards Credit Card Medicare

Author:Jack Layton

“When you're signed to a big label you're always in the position of convincing them, especially now because labels are barely keeping the lights on, so getting them to spend a little bit of money is really hard.”

Littles Hard Bigs Light Bits Position Little Bit Labels Convincing

Author:Moby

“When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.”

Thinking Men Want I Can Song Girl Sex Boys Singing Singing Songs

Author:Joan Jett

“When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.”

Way May Done Might Singing Picks Patterns Phrases Remarkable Vocal

Author:Robert Plant

“When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.”

People Love Life Dream Bigs Audience Relationship Singing Happenings Sight Echoes Single Word

Author:Taylor Swift

“When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.”

Ifs Way Stories Song Can Do Audience Special Singing Dialogue Connecting Entertainers Monologues

Author:Naturi Naughton

“When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.”

People Ifs Advice Exercise Singing Breathing Therapy Extras Muscles Sissy

Author:Willie Nelson

“When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.”

Want Jobs Lord Sweet Months Six Smart Optimistic Sensitive Six Months Mammals Really Smart Day Jobs Really Sweet Single Again

Author:Carol Leifer

“When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.”

Looks Twenties Pairs Fabulous Jeans

Author:Sheena Easton

“When you're single, you go out and party and it's fun, but in a relationship, you experience things together. It's just sharing the memories and looking back on them together, remembering that it was an amazing time. And then thinking about it like it was just yesterday.”

Thinking Together Remember Fun Memories Party Yesterday Looking Back

Author:Andrew W.K.

“When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.”

Spirit Strong Figures My Family Independent Raised Males Household Independent Women Strong Spirit Matriarchs

Author:Tichina Arnold

“When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.”

Feels Writing Mind Seeing Like You Sitting Connections Down And Clicks Sitting Down Channeling Blocked

Author:John Hodgman

“When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.”

Way Use Kids Fronts Sitting Screens Senses

Author:Richard Louv

“When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.”

Way Years Looks Six Adults Old You Six Year Olds

Author:Dwight Henry

“When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.”

Stills Six Draws Balls Floating Tanks Bingo

Author:Stephen King

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.”

Way Feelings Courses Brain Struggle Cutting Identity Twenties Appetite Adolescence Ongoing Remarks Starvation Daydreaming Sixteen Hormones Retrospect Groove So Sad No One Cares

Author:Kate Christensen

“When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.”

Ifs Trying Fall Skiing

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.”

World

Author:Leon Panetta

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