Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.
Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.
You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.
You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.
I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge.
I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about.
It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.
I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.
For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now. ' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.