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“When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.”

Knows Needs Feels Trying Wells Ideas Next Lost Space Knowing Like You Internet Endure Checks Emptiness Online Helpful Hanging Out Cracks Not Knowing New Ideas Email Lost You

Author:Miranda July

“When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.”

People Knows Trying Different Character Know How Territory Uncharted

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.”

Trying Has Beens Childhood Veins Free Yourself

Author:Mat McNerney

“When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.”

Trying Years Littles Eight Little Things Finite Getting Laid

Author:Richard Linklater

“When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'”

People Trying Looks Felt Like You Easier Seasons Compare Girlfriend Parks Pilots Auditions Addict Intimidated Trailers Trailer Park

Author:Marin Ireland

“When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.”

Trying Two Easy Infidelity Adultery

Author:William Bell

“When you're trying to make people believe in what you want to do, you have to be really careful to figure out how you'll make it work, how to maintain the momentum that you're getting without sacrificing much. It's a complete learning process.”

People Trying Believe Sacrifice Careful Learning Process

Author:Ahmed Gallab

“When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.”

Trying Sometimes Periods Versions Defining

Author:John Calipari

“When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.”

Should Trying Kind Culture Stuff Hungry Disappointing Culling

Author:Joni Mitchell

“When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.”

Trying Sides Please Fence Both Sides

Author:Rakim

“When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.”

Trying Littles Problem Seems Easy Loses Numbers Steps Products Type Sight Solve Focused Abstract Problem Solving New Products

Author:Jonathan Ive

“When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.”

Riding Bike Bicycle Biking Riding A Bicycle Along For The Ride Bike Riding

Author:Ned Overend

Source: Mountain Bike Like a Champion

“When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.”

People Humans Human Beings Stress Behave Under Stress

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“When you're underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It's not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We're too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.”

Should Wells Said Home Night Fun Cry Paid Investing Beer

Author:Bill Gross

“When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.”

World Reading Sleep Eating Unhappy Buried

Author:Nick Hornby

Source: A Long Way Down

“When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.”

Way Should Loses Sleep Failing Ought Locks Going To Sleep Passwords

Author:Margaret Atwood

“When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully”

Sometimes Enemy Okay Superiors Bows

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!”

Trying May Faces Can Do Failing Trouble Feet Plant Shoulders Conquer Lifts Vain Do The Best Face To Face Chins Dodge Braces

Author:Edgar Guest

“When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.”

Two Planets Like You Band Separation Electric

Author:Keith Jarrett

“When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.”

Break Happenings Clock Rushing Rushing In

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.”

Trying Hard Shows Might Awards Oscars

Author:Marlee Matlin

“When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.”

Mean Different Canada Viewpoints Maine

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.”

Used Strong Healthy Ill Frightening Bangs

Author:Ann Romney

“When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.”

Ifs Eye Running Used Disease Public Eye

Author:Randy Jackson

“When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.”

Used Prepared Rejects Conventional Conventional Wisdom

Author:Mayim Bialik

“When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."”

Thinking Knows Want Real Enough Shows Reality Past Used Asks Realizing Fantasy Pieces Bread Hey Hopefully Meals Plates Pasta

Author:Barbara De Angelis

“When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.”

Used Animal Steps Taken Just One Electricity Wild Animal

Author:Jeff Kinney

“When you're used to making your money a certain way, especially when you fall in love with the way you're doing it, going back to pursue your true passion can be kind of nerve wracking.”

Way Kind Used Certain Fall Passion Falling In Love Pursue Nerves Be Kind True Passion

Author:Demetria McKinney

“When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.”

People Used Band

Author:Bootsy Collins

“When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.”

Long Ends Body Movement Arms Your Body Length Far Away Brushes

Author:Brice Marden

“When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.”

Trying Turns Successful Routine Careless

Author:Michael Schumacher

“When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.”

Facts Young Pieces Information

Author:Norton Juster

“When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.”

Young Freedom Exciting Prepared Marvellous

Author:David Hockney

“When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.”

Mean Turns Left Fairs Bargains Visiting Entrances Antiques

Author:Judith Miller

“When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.”

Waiting Smoke Things To Do Bus Cigarette

Author:Jane Alison

“When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.”

Way Littles Cities Missing Walking Little Things Pedestrians Shanghai Near Misses

Author:Eliza Coupe

“When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.”

Want Song Streets Car Listening Mom Walking Radio Hey Never Change Just Listen

Author:Afrojack

“When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?" It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally." For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.”

Want Real Moments Home Hands Running Night Secret Behinds Walking Quiet Yeah Stranger Silly Pulling Embarrassing Walking Home

Author:John Green

Source: Looking for Alaska

“When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.”

Looks Self Kids Steps Materials Walking Projects Stores Endless Candy Indulgence Canon Self Indulgence Candy Stores

Author:Josh Groban

“When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'”

Walking Shots Weight Stadiums

Author:Daley Thompson

“When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.”

People Trying Persons Different Levels Fronts Walking Competition Bus Different Levels

Author:Graeme Le Saux

“When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.”

Way Light Lost Darkness Depends Walking Rely Sparks

Author:Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel

“When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.”

Walking Eating

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“When you're watching a show like this or watching a movie, sometimes when you have big music in a scene, it tends to push the viewer out of the scene and makes someone feel like an audience member rather than like they're in the scene.”

Sometimes Audience Scene

Author:John Paesano

“When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.”

Action Film Audience Horror Fishes Boxes Swimming Thrillers Horror Film Action Movie Aquariums

Author:James Wan

“When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.”

Want Shows Watches Relationship Television Rose Work Out Sunshine Blossoming Watching Television

Author:Candice Accola

“When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?”

World Feels Watches News Feel Good About Yourself Miscellaneous

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“When you're watching yourself work, you're not really an audience member for yourself. Even being confronted by your own image can be jarring sometimes. The experience of making a movie or a television show is this really full one, and sometimes you see it and even if it's a great piece of work, it's not the experience - i t's almost sad because it reminds you of something that isn't anymore.”

Sometimes Audience

Author:Peter Vack

“When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.”

Thinking Way Feels Two Happens Film Watches Things Happen Two Things

Author:Steven Knight

“When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”

Ifs Whole Happens Fall Animal Emotion Expression Suits Hills Costumes Falling Down Skiing Stoic Facial Gorillas Facial Expression

Author:Demetri Martin

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