Break Quotes - Page 34

• The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

  John Prescott

  Comfort, Pleasure, Access

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

  Margot Robbie

  Australia, My Boyfriend, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

  Adam Rich

  Metal Fans, Break Out, Way

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• I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.

  Aly Raisman

  Next Day, Normal, Prom

  "Aly Raisman, Olympic Gymnast, Gets An Adorable Prom Proposal" by Hannah Orenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.

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• When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

  Amy Ray

  Couple, Writing, Years

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Thin Man, Gigolo

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• Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

  David O. Russell

  Fall, Life Is, Wonderful

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• It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Heart, People, Looks

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• I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.

  Lily Rabe

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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

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• It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Directors, Substance

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• Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

  Michael Rapaport

  Hip Hop, Taking A Break, Documentaries

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• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  Octavia Spencer

  Rights, Parent, Generations

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• Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

  Charles Simeon

  Eye, Long, Holiness

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• I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

  Donna Summer

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

  Hilary Swank

  Fighting, Makeup, Break Out

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• People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Disappear, Projects

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• Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Attention

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• It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Long, Looks

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• Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Health, Buddhism

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• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  Marat Safin

  Russia, Break Through, Practice

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". Interview with Jill Lieber, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Knows

  "Interview: Zack Snyder Talks Sucker Punch". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. March 24, 2011.

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• The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

  George Tenet

  People, Culture, Telling The Truth

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• I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

  Lea Thompson

  Thinking, Carnivals

  "Lea Thompson Admits She Likes the Seedy Side of Splinterheads". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. November 2009.

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