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Tag Name "Suffocate" (28)

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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
Twyla Tharp
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For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!
Alexander Skarsgard
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There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
Cecelia Ahern
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
Chief Seattle
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What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
Deepak Chopra
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When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
Fausto Cercignani
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I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
Gao Xingjian
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Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
Hyman Bass
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They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.
Jerry Seinfeld
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I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.
Mary Hoffman
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I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.
Paulo Coelho
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Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
Richard Paul Evans
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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
Simon Van Booy
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I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.
Sue Enquist
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America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.
Tom J. Donohue
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Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
Allen Tate
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The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
Chief Seattle
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Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.
Dan Brown
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.
Elie Wiesel
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I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.
Francesca Lia Block
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A man can suffocate on courtesy.
Henry David Thoreau
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious.
Jennifer Worth
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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
June Jordan
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