Never Quit Quotes - Page 11

• Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

  Martin McDonagh

  Actors, Dynamics, Stuff

  "Martin McDonagh on the violence and camaraderie of his Seven Psychopaths". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Military

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  Hallie Ephron

  Writing, Preparation, Fiction

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• It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Believe, Miracle

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• L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

  Kelly Macdonald

  New York, Long, Brilliant

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?

  James Lee Burke

  Hurt, Wall, Mistake

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• I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Country, Quitting, Cornerstones

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• I never quit. I just got fired.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Quitting

  Source: nation.foxnews.com

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• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.

  Donna Tartt

  Knowing, Gone, Shame

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.24, Profile Books

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• One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

  Seymour Krim

  Mind, Enough

  Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

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• Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

  Peter York

  Book, Opportunity, Rooms

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• When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

  Rebecca McCann

  Work, Believe, Pay

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• But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Possession, Understood, Direct

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• A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Boys, Men, Has Beens

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• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  Harold Washington

  Political, Needs, Action

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

  Walt Disney

  Vulnerable, Young, Worst

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• We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Needs, Lines

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• Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.

  Ian Mckellen

  Inspiration, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

  Tom Stoppard

  Distance, Arrows, Greek

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

  Matt Skiba

  Bmx, Motorcycle, Age

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

  James Thurber

  Party, Writing, Wife

  James Thurber, Thomas Fensch (1989). “Conversations with James Thurber”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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