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You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.
No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.
Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.
All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.
I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.
Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.
I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.
Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.
It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down.
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.
I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.
I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.
I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.
I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.
I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: "I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent." That makes me just die inside.
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.