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“Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.”

Sometimes Numbers Republican Accounts Analysis

“Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.”

“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.”

“Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.”

Heart Mean Soul Sometimes Body Remember Spirit Spirituality Secret Draws Strive Flesh Senses Strife

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”

Feels Should Firsts Sometimes Watches Morning Husband Window Wave Awakening Lakes My Husband

Book:Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.”

Sometimes Morning Knowing Crazy Illness Mental Illness Imaginary Not Knowing Snakes Pits Converses Being Crazy Knowing What To Do

Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.”

Way Want Book Sometimes Certain Written Outlining

Author:Sara Gruen

“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.”

Source: Life After God

“I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.”

Ifs World Sometimes Pain Death Behinds Dying Tough Reluctant

Author:Alexander Dolgun

“I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.”

Ifs Feels Book Sometimes Strong Series Humiliation

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.”

Trying Stills Two Sometimes Roles Publishing Translate

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.”

Knows Sometimes Done Film Moving Choices Causes Tvs Train Painful Schedules Take Your Time Make Things Right

Author:Seth Gordon

“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.”

Knows Men Firsts Sometimes Done Jobs Choices Actors Games Directors First Time Jaded Ugh

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.”

Believe Sometimes Film Easy Acting Audience Quiet Theatre Collectives Satisfying Sigh Pins Preview

Author:Katie Leung

“Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.”

Sometimes Seems Song Radio

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.”

Writing Sometimes Fun Social Stuff Enjoy Voice My Own Records Standing Lonely Demos Standing Alone So Lonely

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.”

Want Feels Made Sometimes Wanted Records Creation Couple What You Want

Author:Sondre Lerche

“Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.”

People Way Sometimes Seems Strange Listening Magazines Blogs

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.”

People Thinking Sometimes Used Strong Easy Voice Ability Common Effects Instruments Core Used To Be These Days Underrated Craftsmanship

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.”

Want Kind Sometimes Kids Behinds Watches Musical Heavy Nerd Rico

Author:Rico Love

“I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.”

Way Feels Sometimes Moments Kids Turns Half Bedtime Half Way

Author:Steve McFadden

“I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.”

Thinking Want Sometimes Like You Freak Like Yourself

Author:Bonnie Wright

“Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.”

Needs Different Sometimes Character Actors Boundaries Admire Characteristics Different Things

Author:Bonnie Wright

“The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.”

Humans Sometimes Use Moral Driving Manners Boards Motive Sophisticated Automobile

Author:Charles Mengel Allen

“Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden.”

Men Looks Sometimes Certain Black White Fine Comfortable Suits Ties Designer Brown Chocolate Black And White Uniforms Jeans Casual Variables Borderline Loafers

Author:Peter York

“...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”

People Sometimes Felt Known Movement Serious Activity Direct Theater Various Harm Uplifting Lacking Idealism

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.”

Needs Sometimes Intense Relax

Author:Brady Anderson

“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.”

People Firsts Sometimes Careers Albums

Author:Peter Asher

“I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.”

Knows Writing Littles Sometimes Bits Emotion Little Bit Prose Purple

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”

Children Sometimes Forget Responsibility Filial Filial Piety Filial Duty

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.”

Knows Trying Kind Country Sometimes Lost Pleasure Cities Cadillacs

Author:Black Francis

“Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.”

Thinking Want Sometimes Pay Effects Summer Dollars Spectacles

Author:Jan de Bont

“Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Rage

Author:Amy Clampitt

“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”

Thinking Sometimes Hard Used Culture Air Subjects Extremes Breathe Comment Mainstream Popular Culture

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Sometimes Three Come Up Angle Frustrating Fitting Measuring

Author:Beth Gibbons

“I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.”

Sometimes Areas Lips Surface Brown Sugar Lipstick Brown Sugar

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.”

Mind Kind Sometimes Guy Felt Goal Caught Caught Up Other Guys

Author:Cory Lidle

“Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.”

Kind Sometimes Loses Personality Losing Yourself

Author:Julie London

“Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.”

People Sometimes Guy Asks Names Down And Ask Me Talk To Me

Author:Leonard Little

“Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.”

Needs Wells Sometimes Lying Order Fields Gains Nutrients

Author:Cheech Marin

“In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.”

Trying Sometimes Deeper Holes

Author:Wellington Mara

“As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.”

Looks Sometimes Turns

Author:Jose Padilha

“People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.”

People Giving Sometimes Church Deals Race Class Issues Perspective Hypocrisy

Author:Jose Padilha

“All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.”

Book Sometimes Seems Worry Hobbies

Author:Tom Paulin

“Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.”

People Humans Sometimes Shows Social Common Race Share Projects Arguing Silly Genes Constructs Genome Genome Project Human Genome Project

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.”

Ifs Sometimes Problem Actors Differences Directors Photographer Height Massive Tall Not Happy

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.”

Feels Sometimes Heard

Author:Benmont Tench

“Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.”

Important Sometimes Stories Direct Relation

Author:Linda Vester

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