Nat King Cole
Singer, Pianist
"I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories."
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Sitting Down
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Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted."
Clint Eastwood
Actor, Director, Producer
"When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso."
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"You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down."
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"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
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"I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working."
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"Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit."
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"Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort."
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"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
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"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."
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"Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out."
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"I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still."
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"Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub."
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"One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic"
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"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."
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"Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing."
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"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."
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"I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all."
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"One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it."
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"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."
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