Cold Feet Quotes

• I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

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  Ingmar Bergman

  Struggle   Writing   Air  

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• You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

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  Patti Smith

  Mistake   Drumming   Improvisation  

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.185, A&C Black

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

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  Karl Marlantes

  War   Writing   Feet  

  "A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.

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  Patti Smith

  Mistake   Simple   Feet  

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• You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

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  Bill Watterson

  Running   Feet   Rodents  

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• Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was going to co-star in it. We had a deal with Sony, we got paid to write it, and it was a musical, but it never got made because...I think Arnold kind of backed out at the last minute because he was getting cold feet because ;The Last Action Hero' had come out, where he was parodying himself. But it was a really funny script, and I wish it could've seen the light, because I think it would've done really well.

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  Kevin Nealon

  Stars   Hero   Writing  

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• She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.

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  Patricia Briggs

  Moving   Fall   Sleep  

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.178, Penguin

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• Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

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  B. C. Forbes

  Writing   Men   Opportunity  

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• Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

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  Franz Grillparzer

  Feet   Imagination   Body  

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• You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.

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  Robert Griffin III

  Success   Heart   Feet  

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• Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

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  Janet Evanovich

  Night   Feet   Bed  

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• You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

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  William Booth

  Heart   Feet   People  

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