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We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

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.

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.