I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would. . . make money.
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
I never back down and I never quit!
It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.
God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down
On going vegetarian. " I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat. "
I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge.
I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.
I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. . . . the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.