My Way Quotes - Page 5

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  Marat Safin

  Father, Rich Family, 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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• In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friends, Heart, New Relationship

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

  Martha Wainwright

  Brother, Interesting, Childhood

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• Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

  Curt Schilling

  Speech, Way, Trust Me

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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 have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Feelings, Progress

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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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• I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

  Suze Orman

  Stupid, College, Thinking

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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 suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  Patsy Cline

  Couple, Fighting, Mind

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• Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

  St. Jerome

  Song, Ideas, Voice

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• Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Struggle

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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• I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Past, Trying

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Wise, Rap, Moving

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• My way of thinking is better than yours.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Thinking, Way

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• Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Writing, People

  Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.

  Dean Stockwell

  Thinking, Political, Environmental

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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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• This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

  Celeste Holm

  Inspirational, Home, Memorable

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