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You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
Ian Hislop
Life
,
Confidence
,
Why
Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.
Anne Robinson
Busy
,
Together
,
Put
'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
Ben Lovett
Mean
,
Different
,
Strange
The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
Thomas Dolby
Dreams
,
Mad
,
Goes
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
Rose Tremain
Real
,
Until
,
Research
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.
Shane Black
Together
,
Means
,
Action
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
Anatole Broyard
Book
,
Makes
,
Read
I write very slowly.
Carla Bley
Write
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
George Grey
Great
,
Beautiful
,
Sunrise
Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
Leah Remini
Focus
,
Saying
,
Give
It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
Peter Stuyvesant
Intention
,
Proceed
,
Trenches
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
Norton Juster
Learning
,
Kids
,
Realize
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Cory Lidle
Failure
,
Down
,
Wrong
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.
Gene Cernan
Strange
,
Short
,
Around
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
Susan Faludi
Idiot
,
Used
,
Culture
You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
Sellapan Ramanathan
Hope
,
Important
,
Progress
I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.
Jennifer Sky
Change
,
Good
,
Attitude
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
Yao Ming
Everybody
,
Distance
,
Improving
I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.
Jennifer Ehle
Love
,
Thought
,
Few
Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
Time
,
Freedom
,
Thought
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
Fredric Jameson
Everything
,
Universe
,
Idea
I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.
Tomas Transtromer
Through
,
Walk
,
Empty
The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
Laura Innes
Character
,
Feelings
,
Done
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.
Colson Whitehead
Writing
,
Coffee
,
Step
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
Charles Van Doren
Life
,
Work
,
Writing
Religions die slowly.
Franz Marc
Die
,
Religions
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
Alexander Dubcek
War
,
After
,
Against
Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.
Laurent Lamothe
Friends
,
Indeed
,
Surely
I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.
Hume Cronyn
Time
,
Bad
,
Together
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
Robert Hass
Pain
,
Spring
,
Early
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