Doing Me Quotes - Page 4

• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Odds, Perfect

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

  Paul Auster

  Dog, Writing, Boys

  "An Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.

  Winona Ryder

  Giving, Parent, Mermaid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies.

  Iggy Pop

  Song, Morning, Writing

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

  Iggy Pop

  Home, Thinking, Shopping

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

  Damien Hirst

  Looks, Answers, Faces

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• Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Brother, Dad, Gold

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• I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Ability, Disabled

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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  Young Buck

  Hood, Streets

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• I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

  Jason Bateman

  Gray, Sitcom, Ifs

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• I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

  Steven Tyler

  Grateful, Drug, Aids

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• I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

  Johnny Vegas

  Birthday, Party, Kids

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• For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

  Lloyd Bridges

  Character, Doors, Years

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• I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.

  Emma Thompson

  Girl, Writing, Night

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• We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Organization, House, Okay

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

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• Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.

  Alex da Kid

  Song, Home, Artist

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• It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

  Suzanne Collins

  Favour, Hunger, Dies

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

  Shannon Hale

  Son, Goes On, Bleeding

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.366, A&C Black

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• I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Campaigns, Film

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• I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

  Steve Aoki

  Mom, Teenager, Dark

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• Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

  Richard Marx

  Opportunity, Albums, Wanted

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• The fact that people look at pictures so tiny on Instagram - people ask me about it popping on Instagram, but I didn't alter myself to be that. I didn't change for the screens, I've just been doing me.

  Jeremy Scott

  People, Facts, Instagram

  Source: www.elle.com

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• But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

  Peter Scott

  Knowing, Way, Areas

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• I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

  Julie Bowen

  Writing, Doors, People

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