Avid Quotes

• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Graduation, Self Esteem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

  Glenn Quinn

  Fun, Ghouls, Shoes

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• Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Life, Being Yourself

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

  Sophia Loren

  Talent, Mediocre, Difficult

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

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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Failure

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• I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

  Janis Ian

  Book, Car, Remember

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• I'm an avid biography reader.

  Brent Spiner

  Biographies, Reader

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• I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

  Shannen Doherty

  Fabulous, Conservative, Supporter

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• But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Country, Trying

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• I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Boys, Alaska, Great Love

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• As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

  Tipper Gore

  Photography, Technology, Digital

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

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• Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

  Yeardley Smith

  Sports, New Year, Years

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

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• Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

  Michael Apted

  Quality, Tape, Next

  "Michael Apted Goes from “7 Up” to 007". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 1999.

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• Twilight''s got some avid - and rabid - fans.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Twilight, Fans

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• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  Patrick Wilson

  Weekend, Runners

  "Face Time: Patrick Wilson". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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• Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Flower, Boys, College

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

  Anna Kendrick

  Brother, Book, Kids

  "Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Interview with Caroline Bankoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Enchanted

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• I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

  Nat Wolff

  Play, Important, Musician

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

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• The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Eye, Giving, Firsts

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two in 'The Burial', B/O, 1967.

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• With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

  John Noble

  Fun, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments…one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.

  Katrina Kaif

  Disappointment, Believe, Book

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  Sophia Loren

  Encouragement, Couple, Writing

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• I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

  Dennis Quaid

  Teenager, Average, Bowlers

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