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“Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

“In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.”

People Knows Want Years Sound Five Self Esteem Thirds Down And Sticks Inspired Albums Finished Settling Five Years Mum Settling Down

Author:Adele

“In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.”

People Ifs Thinking Accepting Break Tough Down And Dieting

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.”

People Night Sleep Gone Path Bed Wake Up Down And Phones Dinner Checks Email All Night Iphone

Author:Curtis Stone

“I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.”

People Looks Song Singing Down And Excited

Author:Taylor Swift

“Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.”

People Knows Want Giving Wanted Song Dies Music Know How Special Ears Down And Caught Wanted To Die

Author:Mary J. Blige

“At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.”

People Way Years Firsts Hard Happened Position Months Skins Down And Thick Thick Skin

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.”

People Knows Feels I Can Moments Light Turns Imagination Dark Sleep Down And Scared Disappear Worried Take Me Waking Anxious My Imagination Turn-on Dark Places Nighttime Sleepers

Author:Florence Welch

“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”

People Knows Love Writing Real Difficult Down And Affair Real Love Biographies Love Affair Real Truth

Author:Rebecca West

“As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.”

“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”

People World Way Feet This World Mirrors Down And Suicide Distance Glasses Odd Barriers Rest Of Your Life Upside Down Self Harm

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.”

“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”

People Thinking Littles Ends Body Might Would Be Imagine Standards Jokes Down And Faithful Attractive Nudity Being Faithful Stripping Submarines One For Me Torpedoes Propeller

Author:Charles Bukowski

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Might Eye Young Enjoy Views Havens Down And Chosen Lifts Climbs Summit Looking Down Formality

Book:Reflex

Source: Reflex

“I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains”

People Ifs Two Body Lying Felt Brain Blood Streets Standing Window Down And Miles Pavement Looking Down Licking

Author:Doris Lessing

“And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.”

Source: All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet

“Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.”

People Looks Earth Lines Walks Half Draws Down And Assuming Miles Boundaries Maps Fascinated Imaginary Relevance Imaginary Lines

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.”

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Author:Alice Hoffman

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“Which is why you deal with demons. (Acheron) Who are even more pathetic than humans when you think about it. Personally, I’d rather play video games. Wouldn’t it be great if we could suck the souls of the people we hated into the box, shoot them down and then dance on their entrails? (Jaden)”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Soul Play Games Deals Down And Boxes Video Hated Demon Pathetic

Book:Acheron

Source: Acheron

“I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.”

People Want Wells Lying Guy Fighting Down And Arguing

Author:Sandra Bullock

“There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away." Bones to Cat”

People Way Fighting Walks Lows Shots Cat Down And Clean Blow Bones One Way Dirty Kicks Gentlemanly Cheap Shots

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.”

People Wells Ideas Today Goal Down And Bother Artificial Synthetic

Author:Tom Robbins

“I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick, who looked more relaxed when he'd been stabbed, slowly lifted his hand from his chest and laid it on the tumbled sheets between them, fingers half-curled into his palm. He was still regarding the ceiling with a fixed glare. "Because you trust them not to hurt you?" Mae asked tentatively. "No," Nick said, his voice harsh. "Because I'd let them hurt me.”

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Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”

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Author:Tobias Wolff

“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.”

“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

People Two Different Done Language Talking Sun Down And Leaving Warm Twilight Dew People Talking Different Languages Chilly

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.”

People Trying Long Happens Energy One Thing Down And Listen To Yourself

Author:Chris Colfer

“I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.”

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Author:Carl Rogers

“don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!”

“I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.”

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Author:Willie Aames

“Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.”

People Turns Waiting Down And Pursue Muse Attempting Unreliable

Author:Nick Cave

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

People World Want Running Waiting Class Down And Slow Down

Author:Jessica Sorensen

“People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.”

People Wells Looks Real Moving Stuff Tree Creatures Summer Standing Down And South Chaos Winter Physics Stuck Likes Complexity Geography Fashionable Meteorology

Book:Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld

Source: Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld

“I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".”

People Spirit Sides Community Building Worship Down And Liberation Torn Constituents Power Of God Invading

Author:James H. Cone

“Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?”

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Author:Rosser Reeves

“The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles.”

“I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.”

“Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.”

People Life Enjoy Journey Right Now Down And Live Life Happy Life Take Time Slow Down People In Your Life Enjoy The Journey

Book:Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week

Source: Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week

“If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.”

People Ifs Life Inspirational Enjoy Simple Love You Down And Blessed Happy Life Things In Life Slow Down Life And Love Simple Things People In Your Life Simple Things In Life

Author:Joel Osteen

“If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.”

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Author:Lakhdar Brahimi

“The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.”

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Author:W. Clement Stone

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