Away From You Quotes - Page 9

• Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.

  Derek Holland

  Taken, Giving, Trying

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• Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Laughing, People

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• That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

  George Jung

  Taken, Years, Apathy

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

  Travis Barker

  Teacher, Play, Tilt

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• What you can't run away from, you have to face

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Running, Faces, Running Away

  Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Dante Valentine”, p.590, Hachette UK

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• Don't be in such a hurry. That little white ball isn't going to run away from you.

  Patty Berg

  Running, Golf, White

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• Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Crazy

  Twitter post from Jun 20, 2012

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• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Death, God

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

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• This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Love, Beautiful, Artist

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.488, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

  Susan Sontag

  Taken, Writing, Body

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.547, Macmillan

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• If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, People, Walks

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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• Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.

  Austin Carlile

  Persons, Be Your Own Person

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• Find something that makes you happy and don't let anyone take it away from you.

  Luke Hemmings

  Make You Happy

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2013

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• If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Blessing, Teach, Knows

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• It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

  Patti Smith

  New York, Struggle, Taken

  "Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The Work always leaves you with less of a story.
  Who would you be without your story?
  You never know until you inquire.
  There is no story that is you or that leads to you.
  Every story leads away from you.
  Turn it around; undo it.
  You are what exists before all stories.
  You are what remains when the story is understood.

  Byron Katie

  Stories, Turns, Remains

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.

  RZA

  Inspirational, Life, Home

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.21, Penguin

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• No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

  Barry Mann

  Running, Song, Musician

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• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Believe, Fighting, Telling The Truth

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• If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Care, Know How, Knows

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• The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Projects, Mark, Humans

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• Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Dark, Past

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Real, Knows

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• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  Abel Ferrara

  Editing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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