#exercises

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#companionship #deprived #devise #exercises #human

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. ↗

— Jason Statham

#coordination #exercises #extensive #fight #lot

Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#about #back #body #core #create

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#exercises #floor #get #hurry #i

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work. ↗

— Dick York

#coffee #drink #drink coffee #everything #exercises

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#ago #anymore #bet #exercises #gave

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#exercises #faith #inevitable #influence #life

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. ↗

— David Duchovny

#breathing #cliche #day #down #every

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#ate #did #eat #exercises #food