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pull back

«To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.»
«Irving can be devilishly readable-just as your attention begins to flag, he sends in a troupe of midgets, pulls back incestuous sheets, tosses off a daring piece of slapstick.»
«My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.»
«It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.»
«Our journey is up-hill, with a dead body upon our backs, the devil doing what he can to pull us down»
Author: Philip Henry | Keywords: backs, dead body, pull back
«All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.»
« I would like people to live at ease, with all that is available on the outside. Don't be in a hurry, because anything left unlived will pull you back again. Finish it. And then there is no need to escape from your house or from your bank account, because they are no longer a burden on you. Perhaps they have a certain utility, but nothing is wrong with them.»
«You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bow string being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go...»
«I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.»
«A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.»