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Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting...

Yana Toboso

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

Zack Snyder

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Ben Fountain

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

Ben Shapiro

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

Carl Lewis

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

Deborah Cox

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Edith Evans

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.

Kiesza

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

Rachael Harris

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Richard King

I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

Scarlett Johansson

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

Susie Bright

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense was breaking through – And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum – Kept beating – beating – till I thought My Mind was...

The Complete Poems

And then there is that day when all around, all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one by one, from the trees. At first it is one here and one there, and then it is three and then it is four and then nine and twenty, until the apples plumme...

Dandelion Wine

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down...

Eat, Pray, Love

I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their ...

Empathy

The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the limp prick. The banner of the enemy's encampment: the prick at half-mast. The symbol of the apocalypse: the atomic warhead prick...

Fear of Flying

He slid his hand onto Riley's bare abdomen. "I got to thinkin' that a few years down the line, when yer older, what if that was our baby and I could feel it right here under my hand. Feel the life we'd created." Riley's eyes moistened. "Girl or boy?"...

Foretold