Looking Back Quotes - Page 7

• I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

  Kate Moss

  Jobs, New York, London

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

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• Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

  Bill Griffith

  Character, Alaska, Feminist

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• When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

  Bryan Ferry

  Mistake, Moving, Thinking

  "Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry unwinds in Paris" by Talia Soghomonian, December 2002.

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• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Looks

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• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  Sam Waterston

  Waiting, Cab Drivers, Roles

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• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  Adam Clymer

  Book, Two, Reason

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• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Years, Play, Mexico

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• The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Looks, Way

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• We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Running, Knows, Accidents

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

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• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  Randy Newman

  People, Viagra, Mail

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• In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

  Ai Weiwei

  Keys, Hands, Neighborhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

  Colin Firth

  Mother, Dad, Mirrors

  "And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Growing Up, Role Models, Parent

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

  Javier Bardem

  Struggle, People, Mind

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Mean, Looks

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  The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.

  Sally Ride

  Views, Appreciate, Perspective

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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• I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

  Neil Young

  Next Week, Trying, Looks

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

  Hugh Hefner

  Magic, Mind, Age

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is.

  Herbert

  Sound, Tangible, Patterns

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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• I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Running, Jobs

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• Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

  Thinking, Retrospect, Shame

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• Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

  Dave Mason

  People, Retrospect, Way

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• The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

  Michael Moore

  Being Yourself, Integrity, Adversity

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• I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

  John Towner Williams

  Player, People, Way

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• To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Photographer, Film

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