#keep

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#down #him #hold #keep #long

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#frame #game #good #keep #manager

People tend to keep their distance. ↗

— Adam Ant

#keep #people #tend #their

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#before #chances #did #does #eight

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ↗

— David Antin

#format #henry #henry james #i #i can

Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away. ↗

— Will Arnett

#am #away #because #certain #certain point

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#doing #emotionally #flinching #getting #i

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#american #american music #band #because #got

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#coming #down #egos #foolishness #get

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home. ↗

— Eric Bana

#also #because #between #breaks #capable