My Way Quotes - Page 4

• In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Summer, Thinking, Class

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

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• By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

  Robert Quine

  Summer, Jobs, Sick

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

  Olivia Williams

  Way, Pressure, Projects

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

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• I lost my way for a long time.

  Jayson Williams

  Long, Way, Lost

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• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Giving, Competition, Outcomes

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• I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

  Stephen Dillane

  Guy, Way, Looking Good

  "The unknown heart-throb". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2000.

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• I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

  Nicole Kidman

  Class, Giving, Acting

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• What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Color, Ideas

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• I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

  Bill Walton

  Cheer, Team, Boston

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• I don't see any coronation coming my way

  Lindsey Graham

  Way, Coronation

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Fire, Personality, Style

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• To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Labels, Letters

  Robert Motherwell, David Rosand (1997). “Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

  Mary Oliver

  Talking, Tree, Black

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• I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dancing, Body, Way

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• My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Fists, Way, Combat

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

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• When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

  Lana Parrilla

  Risk, Way, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

  Melissa Manchester

  Long, Despair, Way

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• I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

  Devon Sawa

  Theatre, Way, Company

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

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• If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

  Asne Seierstad

  Book, Writing, Way

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

  Maggie Q

  Gun, Car, Way

  "Maggie Q Interview Nikita". Promo Interview, collider.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Example, Littles

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

  Chrisette Michele

  Believe, Creativity, Answers

  "Natural Hair Celebrity- Chrisette Michele". Curly Nikki Interview, www.curlynikki.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

  Nico

  Father, Racing, Way

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• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  Kara Lindsay

  Teacher, Rain, Mean

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