Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it."
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Slumps
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Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately."
Cartier Martin
Basketball Player
"We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath."
Shania Twain
Singer-songwriter
"I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things."
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"When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees."
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"We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers."
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