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I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

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.

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.