It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It’s nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
I’ve lived an amazing life. There’s no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don’t want to be stuck in the rut? Then don’t look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else’s style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
Being on television is a little constraining. You spend six to eight months filming, and you get stuck in that gear. I feel like doing movies is a lot more my style.
I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.
For me, I’m just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.
I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.
If we didn’t have understanding of our journey, we wouldn’t be able to go on. We’d be stuck, like, ‘Why me?’
When you’re stuck, and sure you’ve written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it – or you will never know if you can.
I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.
I’m not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I’m not that guy. I don’t want people being like, ‘Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.’ It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
There is no such thing as a cleanse. Cleanses tell you that you need to get rid of that piece of gum you swallowed in fifth grade that is still stuck to your intestinal lining. That’s not true.
One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show ‘Small Wonder’ – the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it’s one I think about a lot. It’s stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It’s a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
What’s crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving forward.
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.
I’ve never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante’s 10th circle of hell.
Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There’s nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors… I’d never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?
Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to land a reporting job at ‘The Washington Post,’ which pretty much put me in a state of constant awe. Bob Woodward would dish up ice cream sundaes for anyone stuck working on the weekend.
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it’s 4 A.M.
We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let’s be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let’s take our own hand and say, ‘There, there, sister. You’re doing a good job. I’m proud of how you’re handling all this craziness down here. Don’t give up. Carry on, warrior.’
If you study both ‘Gilligan’ and ‘Brady,’ you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it’s possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.
Once I take a case, I’m stuck with it.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don’t look in other directions.
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it’s very nice and I’m very honored. It’s nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
I was friends with everybody. I never stuck to one clique.
For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector – from film and pop music – since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
I don’t like feeling stuck, like I’m not going anywhere.
I don’t care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like ‘White Hope.’ What about other guys like Tex Cobb – they never had those labels?
There were times people tried to get me to change trainers, but I stuck with my dad.
I have stuck my neck out to stand with a party whose ideologies are closest to mine.
It’s so true: the fight is won or lost in the gym, and those words really stuck with me throughout my career.
Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he’s treated.
Some reporter called me ‘the angriest gay man in the world’ or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
130 of Automattic’s 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything’s been done and there’s nowhere left to go.
Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.
Music draws me in. As soon as I hear it, I’m there. I’m stuck in it.
If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you’re stuck.
I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life’s short and there’s so much that I wanna do, and I can’t do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.
As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.
Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn’t abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.
I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the ‘New York Times’ to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They’re stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
I generally don’t like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.
Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
Truthfully, I’m pretty stuck in the ’80s.
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you’re stuck and you can’t figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can’t be good.
I’m sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.
If you watch the movie ‘Ghost’ with Patrick Swayze, you see an accurate portrayal of what I believe. Spirits are stuck here. They want to convey a message to the living, but they can’t – they are on a different frequency. But when they are heard, they are helping both us and themselves.
