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“I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.”

Ifs Games Player Mets Losing Teenager Pool Basements Snooker

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements.”

Left Mets Demon Comment Basements

Author:Robert Pattinson

“You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.”

Parent Parenthood Legends Basements

Author:Joe Walsh

“Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.”

Ifs Said Two Crime Tables Laughed Mentor Basements Ping Ping Pong

Book:Pale fire

Source: Pale fire

“The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.”

Knows Want Business Crazy Debt Neighbor Finance Aunt Basements

Book:United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

Source: United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

“I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.”

Writing Stories Home Written Computer Aunt Basements Writing Stories

Author:Xavier Dolan

“If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.”

People Ifs Together Community Church Findings Ordinary Phones Working It Activist Ordinary People Posters Phone Calls Basements Netflix

Author:Avi Lewis

“If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?”

Ifs Character Sells Bargains Basements Retail

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.”

Knows Writing Years Dream Song Fool Years Ago Dreams Come True Ghetto Writing Songs Basements

Author:R. Kelly

“No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.”

Needs Home Cooking Basements Home Cooking Curfew

Author:Mike Trout

“As a kid I was always writing and directing plays in my basement with my neighborhood cronies. But please don't get me wrong, I have zero regrets when it comes to the acting stuff. I think it's made me a better director.”

Thinking Writing Made Play Kids Stuff Acting Regret Please Directors Neighborhood Zero Basements Cronies

Author:Coley Sohn

“Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.”

Way House Awareness Fronts Denial Pushing Lawns Basements Showing Up Burrowing

Author:Howard Sasportas

“In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.”

Thinking Ends Night Gold Basements Prom Prom Night

Author:LIZ

“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.”

Growing Up Growing Player Dad Band Instruments Musical My Dad Bass Latino Basements Musical Instruments Bass Players

Author:Lindi Ortega

“High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.”

People Years School Sleep College Band Musician High School Paid Punk Vans Basements Hardcore Sleeping In Formative Years

Author:Steve Aoki

“Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.”

Thinking Men Ends Painting Hero Fame Difficulty Possession Dues Great Men Buying Publishing Underwear Basements Hacking Forts Unawareness

Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

“Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.”

People Helping Cities Lord Study Hills Towers Our Lord Bible Study Basements Babel Tower Of Babel

Author:David Chilton

“When I learned to build on my faith, the fear pretty much went away. I'm in a dark basement in a home that's demonically infested - that's not my idea of a fun evening, but again it boils down to your faith. That's your protection. That's the only protection we have.”

Ideas Home Fun Dark Protection Evening Basements

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.”

Trying My Own Grew Please Band Grew Up Nostalgia Sensibility Basements Hardcore

Author:Geoff Rickly

“No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.”

Matter Lows Basements Unexplored

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.”

“When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.”

Mother Found Names Rocks Kings Twelve Rock And Roll Basements Creole

Author:Klaus Nomi

“If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?”

Ifs Wells Periods Ill Affected Hiding Organisms Immune Basements Immune System Time Periods Hiding Out

Author:Brit Marling

“For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.”

Ifs Real Would Be Faces Belief Strange Claims Aliens Nuts Time Travel Traveler Face To Face Bolts Basements Outlandish Nuts And Bolts

Author:Zal Batmanglij

“My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.”

“The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.”

Kids Ego Busy Basements

Author:Tim Allen

“I recently attended a pro-drug rally... in my basement.”

Drug Basements

Author:David Cross

“To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.”

Ifs Night Knowing Comedy Projects Majors Presses Finals Starting Newspapers Release Apples Not Knowing Basements Dorms Press Release

Author:Eugene Mirman

“Ever since I was little I would always be singing and dancing. I learned dance moves from Michael Jackson and *Nsync. My brothers, Rydel, and I would always put on shows for family members in our basement and we charged everyone $1 to get in.”

Littles Shows Moving Brother Members Singing Dancing My Brother Family Members Basements Singing And Dancing Dance Moves Nsync

Author:Riker Lynch

“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.”

Ifs Stage Car Cry Serious Singing Performances Dishes Showers Basements Fright Stage Fright

Author:Michelle Chamuel

“So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.”

Ends Mother Streets Wall Majors Accomplishment Initiative Basements Occupy Wall Street

Author:Ann Coulter

“I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.”

Whole Band Basements

Author:Sebastian Bach

“I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.”

Thinking Looks Beautiful House Rooms Areas Window Decided Glasses Studios Paris Sunshine Old Man Countryside Basements Dining Parlor Dining Rooms Idyllic Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Feist

“It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.”

Knows Art Done Would Be Wanted Film Moving Form Culture Levels Taken Band Late Musician Pops Decades Posts Punk Pop Culture Basements Do It Yourself

Author:Guy Maddin

“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.”

Kings Eating Bread Honey Towers Basements Eating Bread

Book:Black House: A Novel

Source: Black House: A Novel

“I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.”

“Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.”

People Thinking Mean Ideas Seems Christian Church Steps Drink Republican Sitting Recovery Mainstream Basements Very Mean 12 Step Recovery 12 Step

Author:Bucky Sinister

“It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their profits from every square inch of the place means that there just aren't any scruffy little basement clubs left. Those scruffy little basement clubs were the areas lifeblood. Now, it's all penthouse flats and global brands. They destroyed the very thing that drew people there in the first place - it's superficial sleaziness.”

People Needs Firsts Mean Littles Stills Left Areas Profit Clubs Destroyed Brands Flats Squares Inches Superficial Bucks Tourists Flocks Basements Developers Gentrification Penthouses

Author:Derek Ridgers

“My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.”

Play Wanted School Parent Player Brother Band Guitar Neighborhood Peers Rehearsal Just Listen Basements Guitar Player Older Brother After School

Author:Jill Sobule

“Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.”

Writing Play Term Levels Basements

Author:Stephen Karam

“I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We'd sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our chest. I don't think they still do that. They're sort of sobering. You leave recess and come in for the apocalypse drill.”

Thinking Stills School Used Next Wall Knees Chests Ducks Shelter Apocalypse Grammar Textbooks Basements Drills Recess Grammar School Fallouts

Author:Adam Reed

“I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.”

Ifs Involved Reunion Basements

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room.”

House Stuff Rooms Special Effects Shots Theater Green Screens Basements Special Effects

Author:Vickie Winans

“We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.”

People Needs Made Today Song Practice Environment Fashion Huge Wide Volume Festivals Surreal Basements Fashion Today

Author:David Pajo

“When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.”

Ifs Play Use Kids Wanted Three White Rooms Hell Five Stage Dad Scene Built Red Blue My Dad Neighborhood Curtains Dressings Spotlight Basements Nighttime Dressing Rooms Backdrop

Author:Paul Reubens

“With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.”

People States Community United Company United States Gone Groups Huge Agents Sophisticated Basements Hacking Inside And Outside

Author:Tim Cook

“After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.”

Book House Names Written My Family Died Grandfather My Grandfather Basements Anthology Father Died Grandfather Died

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.”

Needs Jobs Lasts Moving President Daughter Google Unemployed Basements Millennials Love For Her

Author:Kate Siegel

“He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.”

Knows Mother Father Activity Household Constructs Basements Workshops Sewing

Author:Paul Smith

“I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.”

Firsts House Safe Gun Built Letters Originals Shelves Basements Velvet Refrigerators Barbara Lettuce

Author:Victoria Wilson

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