Break Quotes - Page 35

• I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

  Gemma Ward

  Taken, Past, Media

  "Gemma Ward opens up about her life with Heath Ledger" by Billy Rule, www.heraldsun.com.au. January 29, 2011.

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• I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

  Gemma Ward

  Thinking, People, Pulling Away

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• People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Dad, Writing, Men

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• I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

  Luke Wilson

  Growing Up, Real, Kind

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• I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

  Scott Weiland

  Territory, Harder, Unfamiliar Territory

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• I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Writing, Men

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Change, Determination

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• Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

  Bede Jarrett

  Grief, Grieving, Sorrow

  Bede Jarrett (1945). “The House of Gold: Lenten Sermons”

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• When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Jesus, Light

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• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Teenager, Fighting

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

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• I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

  NeNe Leakes

  Reality, Television, Doe

  "NeNe Leakes Opens Up On Reality Television Not Being Scripted", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

  Sarah Lacy

  Reality, Zuckerberg, World

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sweat, Two, Burning

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

  Tony Levin

  Kings, Musical, Trying

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• You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Knowing, People, Body

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

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• If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

  Christian Marclay

  Play, Trying, Different

  "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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• People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

  Christian Marclay

  Mean, Hard Times, People

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• When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

  Jack McBrayer

  Night, Years, Three

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2007.

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• Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

  Louise Mensch

  Writing, Law, Serious

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• I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

  Bernie Mac

  Needs, Arms

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• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Winning, Careers

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• It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

  Denene Millner

  Baby, Sleep, Kids

  Denene Millner (2017). “My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children”, p.32, Agate Publishing

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• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

  Dick Morris

  Gay, Public Opinion, Unions

  "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.

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