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I don`t want to turn my back on that (Bush) family. They`ve been gracious to me. We`re supposed to evolve from frontier justice. I think that the old west mythology is a good thing to have in your spine. But it shouldn`t operate your brain. It`s nice to know that you are willing to fight, but it`s good to know how smart you are about not fighting. -- On the Iraq War.

- Kevin Costner

(Ethan Coen) once described the way we worked together as: one of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book open flat. That`s why there needs to be two of us - otherwise he`s gotta type one-handed. That`s how you "collaborate" with someone else.

- Joel Coen

(Talking about his work with a movement coach to capture Superman`s physical presence): "We worked on posture. Spine straight, hips forward, neck in line - just a clean motion moving through the world. (On the bright side) I slouch less."

- Brandon Routh

Ethan once described the way we worked together as: one of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book open flat. That`s why there needs to be two of us - otherwise he`s gotta type one-handed. That`s how you `collaborate` with someone else.

- Joel Coen

I don`t want to turn my back on that (Bush) family. They`ve been gracious to me. We`re supposed to evolve from frontier justice. I think that the old west mythology is a good thing to have in your spine. But it shouldn`t operate your brain. It`s nice to know that you are willing to fight, but it`s good to know how smart you are about not fighting. - On the Iraq war

- Kevin Costner

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

- Sally Field

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

- Don Henley

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

- Lawrence Welk

Getting to meet him brought chills to my spine. He`s a special person. Not only was he a great boxer, but he was an outspoken person.

- Paul Lo Duca

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah`s husband. It`s tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

- Tallulah Bankhead

So someone who has had a fracture, whether it be a spine fracture, wrist fracture or hip fracture, and who has low bone density, would be considered to have severe disease,

- Robert Lindsay

He`s come downstairs and I pivoted a little bit too much and he came around the back and he smashed me that hard on the spine that I have broken two vertebrae and I just felt my whole bottom go completely numb straight away.

- Danny Green

I`ve cried, and you`d think I`d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

- Conor Oberst

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

- Robert Nelson

(Milwaukee guard T.J. Ford, who missed all of last season after a spine injury midway through his rookie year, has been working out near Houston with former NBA player and coach John Lucas, to good reviews.) I know this is going to sound like a crazy comment, ... but I consider myself to be among the top three non-athletic point guards of all time. And the other two are John Stockton and T.J. Ford.

- John Lucas

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it`s not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

- Brian Lumley

Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

- Amrik Bhela

I have to admit that a shiver runs down my spine when I see Newcastle struggling at the moment,

- Anthony Parham