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Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
'Madam, you inquire as to how I write. I write while seated.'
2.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole
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If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
Dave Gibbons
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Wole Soyinka
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No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.
Chris Hadfield
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According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
Gilles Deleuze
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If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'
Joe DiMaggio
9.
I don't split poles. When I'm walking with my friends by lampposts, we all walk on the same side. And I won't cross over your legs. If you're sitting down and like chilling on the floor, I won't walk over your legs because then you'll go to jail.
Curren$y
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
Dorothy Parker
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I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.
George Burns
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You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
Duke of Wellington
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering
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I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.
Bob Dylan
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Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
Roland Joffe
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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.
Clint Eastwood
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People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.
Linda Evangelista
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I love sitting down with my friends at dinner and actually telling them a story, as opposed to going, "Hey, did you see that thing I posted on Instagram?" For me, I would so much rather sit there and actually share a story with somebody and have somebody tell me about their trip, or things like that. I don't need to see it.
Tyler Hoechlin
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I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.
Samuel Palmer
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I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.
Holly Valance
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I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
Charles Barkley
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
Kamala Harris
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If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.
Guy Forget
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Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.
Deepa Mehta
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Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.
Woody Allen
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Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.
Darynda Jones
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I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.
Itzhak Perlman
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
Christopher Morley
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I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
Kristen Stewart
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You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.
Zig Ziglar
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I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.
Martin McDonagh
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I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.
David Finch
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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.
Van Morrison
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It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
Hannah Kent
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I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.
Frank Herbert
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My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.
Jose Gonzalez
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Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.
Henry B. Eyring
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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.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley
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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.
Graham King
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I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists: you're an anarcho-syndicalist; you're an anarcho-communist; you're an anarcho-individualist.
Murray Bookchin
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I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.
Joseph Conrad
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
Bear Grylls
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I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.
Joanne Whalley
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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.
Lucinda Williams
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.
Tom Riley
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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
J. K. Rowling