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The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

Dan Ariely

Drinking, Smoking, Trying

Source: time.com

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I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it?

Winona Ryder

Mistake, Thinking, People

"Winona Ryder" by Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 25, 2009.

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When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

Carlton Mellick III

School, Mean, Supposed To Be

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Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Rick Riordan

Writing, School, Kids

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I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

Sara Blakely

Inspirational, Ideas, People

“The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Europe, Directors, Call Me

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Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

Cornelia Funke

Gun, World, Want

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Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.

Holly Lisle

Moving, Good Friend, Your Side

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...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

Barbara Kingsolver

Summer, Heart, Wings

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

Joshua Foer

Islands, Brooklyn, Laptops

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

Miley Cyrus

Guitar, Play, Add

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I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

Tom Hanks

Islands, Fantasy, Bosoms

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Thinking, Blood

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

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In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

Robert Redford

Moving, Hands, Facts

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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Adam Savage

Light, Magic, Details

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A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

Will Self

Beautiful, Hips, Young

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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Gertrude Stein

War, Dancing, Literature

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.118, Vintage

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A few years back, when my style was "punk grandma", I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more "1980s substitute teacher gone wild."

Beth Ditto

Teacher, Grandma, Years

"The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

Debra Winger

Moving, Reading, Thinking

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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

Karrie Webb

Kids, People, Giving

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I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

Will Ferrell

Rap, Gangsta, Different

Source: www.avclub.com

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It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

Catherine McCormack

Eight, Ideas, Yesterday

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

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Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

Eric McCormack

School, Musical, Trying

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I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

Ricky Skaggs

Mom, Country, Song

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