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I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

I never fall down. I always fight.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

It's important to face down your demons.

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.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.