When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
Samuel Fuller
Related It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're alway... ALEXANDER WANG There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'... CHAD HARBACH Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week be... BETH BEHRS It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when yo... BJ THE CHICAGO KID It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have ... JAMIE DORNAN You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Tak... PATSY CLINE You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, y... JIMMY CHIN You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's... SONIA RYKIEL There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to ma... JEFFREY KLUGER I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting t... COREY TAYLOR Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you ... JULIA ROBERTS When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. GEORGE CARLIN It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and a... DIDO ARMSTRONG All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't... MICHAEL STRAHAN A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any cha... BOBBY BOWDEN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you ex... MICHAEL PHELPS Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere morta... ICE CUBE After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, direc... JOHN RATZENBERGER I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It c... FRANCESCA ANNIS Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocke... ADAM ANT It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It'... STEVEN WRIGHT An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's n... AASIF MANDVI In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you... CAITLIN FITZGERALD Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin... CINDY CRAWFORD Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain'... DENVER MOORE There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfort... ALEX LOWE I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you ha... JOSS WHEDON You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your h... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside... RICKIE FOWLER You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's somethin... DAVID LYNCH I believe the short and the long to life's trials, is when you wake up the next morning realizing yo... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and tha... CAROLINE BUCHANAN In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brai... FEDE ALVAREZ I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once,... ANDREW SHUE That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there t... ACE FREHLEY Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not fle... CHAD STAHELSKI It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That'... GEORGE TENET When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of ... JASON REITMAN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd... FRED ARMISEN You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to s... BRETT FAVRE All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your mus... GLORIA ESTEFAN How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of... EDIE CAMPBELL You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take... PAUL SAMUELSON Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hall... F. GARY GRAY Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it... TATIANA MASLANY The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your... TONY GILROY It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're... DANNY DEVITO Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. Yo... TONY LA RUSSA The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a cam... ERNEST BORGNINE The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elatio... HELEN FISHER You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got... MALCOLM WILSON One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the... NICK CANNON When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ... RYAN CARTWRIGHT When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you... JONAH HILL When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same ti... RICHARD LOUV You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices st... CHRIS KYLE It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who we... JANET SUZMAN That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You hav... STEVE JOBS We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important ... KELLY ROWLAND People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But th... BRYAN BATT You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something ne... ED HELMS Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my... EMINEM Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and ... NICK CANNON You can wet your foot and step on a brown paper bag. If you have a low arch you will see your full f... ELIZABETH WELLS I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet... TRAVIS FIMMEL When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of contr... HELEN FISHER People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is... EVE ENSLER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of you... BILL HADER When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to... GARETH BALE No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the... JON LESTER All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo... PAUL GREENGRASS One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do wel... JESSICA ENNIS I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't loo... MICHAEL STRAHAN Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you ge... JONAH HILL You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... CALVIN JOHNSON But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mi... AL ALVAREZ If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How impor... VICTORIA JUSTICE My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, t... EVA AMURRI People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you... FELICIA DAY With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose... KEVIN NEALON It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more bra... CARY FUKUNAGA When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It&... SEAN PATRICK THOMAS When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And... HENRY SELICK And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed th... MARCO RUBIO One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're su... LANE GARRISON That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and... PARMINDER NAGRA For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have... PAUL FARMER There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, ... TATE TAYLOR All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know... WALTER MOSLEY When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. CARMEN ELECTRA I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN
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