Made It Quotes - Page 17

• After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

  Brittany Snow

  Character, Play, Littles

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• I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

  Bobby Darin

  Want, Legends, Made

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• I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Dream, Reality, America

  "Jean-Claude Van Damme Re-Evaluates Career: 'I Will Never Do Another Movie I Would Not Like'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2008.

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• Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

  Gretchen Mol

  Energy, Opinion, Made

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• Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

  Gene Kelly

  Kids, Archives, Tape

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it!

  The Miz

  Kids, Men, Should Have

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• Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

  Richard Chamberlain

  California, Actors, Culture

  "Richard Chamberlain Advises Other Gay Actors: Stay in the Closet" by Bryan Alexander, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Money itself isn’t lost or made.  It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

  Michael Douglas

  Perception, Lost, Made

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• I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

  Judith Light

  Wish, Safe, Made

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• Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, He Man, Guru

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

  Bill Mumy

  Years, Style, Ambitious

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• On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Glasses, Long

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• It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

  Bill Cowher

  Christian, Years, Guy

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• People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Hands, Years

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• Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

  Kim Novak

  Thinking, Made, Combination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

  Claudette Colbert

  Casting, Made, Couches

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• Most teams have one All-Star, whether that guy made it this year or earlier in his career, and some teams have two All-Stars. What theyre showing is that a group of five guys that play together and play hard will always beat a team with two All-Stars and three average players.

  Ray Allen

  Stars, Team, Player

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• Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

  Ray Allen

  Somewhere Else, Choices, Made

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• I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Mother, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said I made it. Everybody knows who you are now. At that point everything in my life was flawless… I was just overwhelmed, I was happy, I was successful as an artist. I think I was in cruise control – like a little bit of bliss.

  Chris Brown

  Successful, Artist, Thinking

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• People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.

  Jonathan Vilma

  Football, Player, Reality

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• At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

  Peter Jurasik

  Graduation, Numbers, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

  Joseph Barbera

  Romantic, Fighting, Boxing

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

  Haley Reinhart

  Thank You, Crowds, Firsts

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• President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says "thank you" to its most exceptional men and women.

  John F. Kerry

  Thank You, Home, Men

  John Kerry's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, nationalpost.com. September 7, 2012.

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