Because I Can Quotes - Page 4

• I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.

  Tituss Burgess

  Song, Believe, Night

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

  George Meyer

  People, Car, Provocative

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

  Lissie

  Skills, Community, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My show is an adult comedy show, but it isn't offensive. Your kids could listen to it, even though I hope they wouldn't 'get' most of it. But I get a lot of fan mail from soccer moms saying 'I love having your CD because I can listen to it with my kids in the car.'

  Henry Cho

  Soccer, Mom, Kids

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• I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

  Heath Ledger

  Confused, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". NY Post, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Moving, Looks, Pumps

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• I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Running, Giving

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, People, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.

  Stuart Hill

  Queens, Night, Thinking

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• I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Blow, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

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• Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

  James P. Carse

  Strong, Play, Wish

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• He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

  John Fowles

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• The only person on this ship who gets paid for what they do is you, Alix. The rest of us live off our trust funds and we use those funds for our humanitarian missions. I do what I do because I can’t stand to see innocent people bullied by a corrupt government. I don’t want to see a baby starve and die because some fat politician wants to work its parents into the ground for a mineral most of them can’t even pronounce. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Government, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sunset, Numbers, Missing

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.192, Scholastic

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• You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

  Alison Weir

  Giving, Praying, Praying To God

  Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC

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• ...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Smarter, I Can

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• “And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”

  L. Frank Baum

  Awkward, Helping, Filling

  "The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection".

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• I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

  Elaine Stritch

  Acting, Talent, Explaining

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• Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

  Meryl Streep

  Undisciplined, Show Business, Shows

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• I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

  Robert Smith

  Explaining, Feels, Bothered

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• No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

  Mary J. Blige

  Competition, Trying, Relax

  "Singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2013.

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• I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Tired, Views

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Wrinkles, Mirrors

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• You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

  Bernie Mac

  Home, Years, Games

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• I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

  Shirley MacLaine

  Ideas, Rooms, Get Away

  "Shirley MacLaine grows old and mean - for "Bernie"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, in.reuters.com. April 24, 2012.

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