Gave Up Quotes - Page 11

• Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Crazy, Drug, Gone

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Jail

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• My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

  Tony Parsons

  Sacrifice, Parent, House

  "Punk turns new romantic" by Tony Parsons, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 1999.

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• I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Teenager, Creativity, Acting

  "Lenny Kravitz Shares His Acting 'Hunger'". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. November 20, 2013.

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• I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Too Much, Visiting, Meddling

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• Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People, Quality, Care

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.300, Shambhala Publications

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• Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kings, Food, World

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Caring, Problem

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• I am astounded at my age with a 20-year-old daughter to discover that kids of her generation don't want to watch black and white movies. I understand that they gave up on silent films, but black and white? So, now movies have to be taught in academia because people don't know how to watch them, they don't know how to appreciate them.

  Gary Giddins

  Daughter, Kids, Black And White

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

  Os Guinness

  Hurt, Moving, Fall

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• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  Harrison Ford

  Actors, Fellows

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• At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

  Alberto Manguel

  Confused, Book, Childhood

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• I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Writing, Enemy, One Friend

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• Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Healing, Responsibility, Choices

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• I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

  Billy Sheehan

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• I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

  John Calvin

  Christ, Found

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• Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

  Frank Ocean

  Heartbreak, Sorry, Heartache

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.

  Louise Fletcher

  Pregnancy, Careers, Going Away

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

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• Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nice, Party, Learning

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 29 (on Edmund Burke)

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• We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

  John Cale

  Ideas, Trying, Records

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• When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

  Boris Gelfand

  Sorry, Sparring Partner, Play

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