Used To Be Quotes - Page 22

• I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

  Seth Gordon

  Who I Am, Identity, Stories

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

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• I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

  Victoria Legrand

  Strong, Thinking, Voice

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• I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.

  Marlen Esparza

  Fighting, Sparring Partner, Years

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• My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Cutting, Jeans, Problem

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• It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

  Edwin Starr

  Records, Used, Company

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• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  Gedde Watanabe

  San Francisco, Singers, Used

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• I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Mom, New York, School

  "Without Her Happy Hookers". Interview with Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Husband, Years, Opposites

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• I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

  Grandma Moses

  Inspiration, Forget Everything, People

  "Grandma Moses Is Dead at 101; Primitive Artist 'Just Wore Out'". The New York Times Obituary, archive.nytimes.com. December 14, 1961.

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• Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

  Rollo May

  Purpose, Used, Will Power

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Mean, Cooking, Used

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• Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Reading, Writing, School

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• I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Bird, Answers

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.

  David Lynch

  Moving, Night, Two

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• The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Understanding, Used, Present Life

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

  Herb Caen

  Humorous, San Francisco, Used

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Trying, Tone, Used

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

  Ed Roland

  Want, Used

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• Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

  "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

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• Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, Soul, Promise

  "Wheels" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

  Saul Bellow

  Sex, Practice, People

  1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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• City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

  John Carlos Frey

  Cities, Effort, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Pounds, Video, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.

  Keith Richards

  Kissing, Rocks, Expression

  "Keith Richards: The Rolling Stone 20th Anniversary Interview". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.rollingstone.com. November 05, 1987.

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