Personal Things Quotes - Page 3

• Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

  Joseph Barbera

  Creating, Growth, Fantasy

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

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• People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, People

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• Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

  S. E. Hinton

  Stars, Believe, Sunset

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.119, Penguin

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• You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Real

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.344, Vintage

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• People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Country, Jobs, Stars

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

  Ruth Rendell

  Children, Heart, Secret

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)”, p.61, Random House

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• Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

  Brian May

  Dream, Song, Queens

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• Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.

  Albert Belle

  Team, Loss, Winning

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.22, ECW Press

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• Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.

  Cat Deeley

  Style, Looks, Individual

  "Cat Deeley: five things I know about style" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

  John Waters

  Airplane, Writing, Thinking

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• ......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

  Edward Weston

  Technique, Way, Composition

  Edward Weston (1961). “Daybooks”

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• A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tired, Dark, Hypocrisy

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.

  Tom Ford

  Writing, Character, Acting

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Fighting, Boxing, Giving

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?

  Jane Wagner

  Sex, Persons

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• Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.

  Michio Kushi

  Spiritual, Hero, Ddt

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 55), December 1994.

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• For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.

  Mike White

  Writing, Want, Enjoy

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

  Lena Headey

  Doe, Needs, Culture

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• I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Comedy, Sense Of Humor

  "AWFJ Women On Film – Charlize Theron Talks 'Burning Plain'". Interview with Jen Yamato, awfj.org. September 24, 2009.

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• To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

  Frank Sinatra

  Prayer, Men, Doctors

  Source: www.linkedin.com

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• I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, Roots

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• There is really no spiritual message that I'm trying to convey with my music, it's just a personal thing. I really believe that the more personal we get, in a way, the more universal the implications.

  John McLaughlin

  Spiritual, Believe, Trying

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• Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

  Julia Stone

  Song, Writing, Trying

  "Angus and Julia Stone Synch Up". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 31, 2014.

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• The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Imagination, Vision, Desert

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.157, Macmillan

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• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fighting, Men, Flames

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