"I actually feel more productive reading things online and on social media like Twitter and Facebook than if I was just sitting and watching a TV show, " she said.

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Very often I feel like I'm being driven by a different person, and I (the real me) is just sitting back and watching what this other person is doing.

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There are a lot of other people who are just sitting around and watching things happen.

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She's incapable of doing anything more than just sitting by and watching while her family falls apart.

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And he's stopped for a while in a motel room and he's just sitting there watching TV and using his little laptop computer and trying to come to grips with his situation, and he's pretty depressed.

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"If you're just sitting in a virtual world and watching a Web presentation, you're wasting your money, " Rozwell says.

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We sit out front, on stone steps polished smooth from centuries of just such sitting, and dine whilst watching locals pass by.

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"Really it's just sitting in a quiet posture that's comfortable, closing your eyes and watching your breath, " she said.

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"I was sitting there, that Saturday night, just up reading the week's papers and watching the program, " says Rand with a hearty Southern accent.

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