Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 2

• A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Long, People

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• But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Long, Perfect, Forever

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Believe, Black And White, Long

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• I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Tired, Thinking, Should Have

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Long, Negative, Way

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Long, Sides

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• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Writing, Nuts

  "The Most Important Writing Tip the Late Elmore Leonard Ever Gave" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. August 20, 2013.

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• I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

  Denis Leary

  Jealous, Long, People

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• Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

  Anne Lamott

  Cute, Mother, Giving Up

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• I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Forgiveness, Heart, Long

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• I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

  Anne Hathaway

  Being Yourself, Struggle, Thinking

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

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• You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Fighting, Winning, Nfl

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• Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Differences, Long

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

  Robert Moog

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  Jack Nicholson

  Long, Hollywood, Vote

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• I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Long, Black

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, Reality, Long

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• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  Carlos Santana

  Long, Language, Speak

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Long

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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  Pat Robertson

  Long, People, Devil

  "Pat Robertson: Haiti ‘Cursed’ By ‘Pact To The Devil’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Long, Dresses

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

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• I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

  Anais Nin

  Boyfriend, Father, Long

  1944 Under a Glass Bell,'Birth'.

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