"I used to sit and watch Elmore when I was a kid, actually all through my life, and I would see him in different stages, " Peter said.

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But, instead, all I could do was sit there and watch as resistance and skepticism built and rippled through the assembled group.

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I'd usually sit down and watch exactly what was happening.

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"My family would laugh at me, because when (my grandson) was just beginning to move around, I was happy just to sit and watch him without any dialogue going on, " Tucker says.

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How could I respect myself if all I did was sit on the couch everyday and watch the snow fall?

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If I watch rugby league or football I just sit back and enjoy it.

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While working that kind of schedule, the only thing I wanted to do in my free time was sleep or sit on the couch and watch TV.

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It is by no means an easy goal, nor is its success ensured, but the majority of Syrian women I have met over the last two years through my reporting are not going to sit silently by and watch while their freedoms are stolen from them or their future dictated to them.

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But the savior is that I think there's an amnesiac effect on you when you sit down and the lights go off and you watch the movie.

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