Doing Me Quotes - Page 4

• I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Ability, Disabled

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• Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Brother, Dad, Gold

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• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

  Damien Hirst

  Looks, Answers, Faces

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• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Odds, Perfect

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Helping

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

  Steven Tyler

  Grateful, Drug, Aids

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• I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

  Johnny Vegas

  Birthday, Party, Kids

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• I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Campaigns, Film

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• Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

  Shannon Hale

  Son, Goes On, Bleeding

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.366, A&C Black

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

  Suzanne Collins

  Favour, Hunger, Dies

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.

  Alex da Kid

  Song, Home, Artist

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• We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Organization, House, Okay

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

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• I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.

  Emma Thompson

  Girl, Writing, Night

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• For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

  Lloyd Bridges

  Character, Doors, Years

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• There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

  Paul Auster

  Dog, Writing, Boys

  "An Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.

  Winona Ryder

  Giving, Parent, Mermaid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies.

  Iggy Pop

  Song, Morning, Writing

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

  Iggy Pop

  Home, Thinking, Shopping

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

  Julie Bowen

  Writing, Doors, People

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• But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

  Peter Scott

  Knowing, Way, Areas

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• We had met with Ben Stiller here in LA when I was shooting The Ring and he was doing Meet The Fockers and we have friends in common. But we didn't know each other well. He's fantastic and we really had a great time on this and we were both laughing at where we were at, this other couple, and how it was mirroring what we were going through as well. It was clever writing in that way.

  Naomi Watts

  Clever, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.

  Rands

  Jobs, Long, House

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• Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.

  Michelle Beadle

  Careers, Choices, Feelings

  "Thoughts on a weekend". Michelle Beadle @MichelleDBeadle, www.twitlonger.com. May 5, 2015.

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