I Can Do It Quotes - Page 9

• I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

  Khandi Alexander

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Khandi Alexander swaps autopsies for bartending" by Sarah Kuhn, www.reuters.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want
  to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Writing, Want

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  Forest Whitaker

  Years, Careers, Trying

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• I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

  Alexa Vega

  Dance, Dancing, Hips

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

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• I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

  Ruben Studdard

  Matter, Jazz, Can Do

  "Ruben Studdard Reflects on 'idol' Life". Interview with Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• When we were kids, we would never open the minibar. A $6 Snickers bar? But the other day I was in a hotel and I was staring at a Snickers bar, and I finally just ate it. Then it was like something in me snapped. I opened all these drinks. I thought: I can do it now. Now I'm all grown-up. I can eat things from the minibar.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Kids, Bars, Snickers

  "Jennifer Lawrence's April 2012 Cover-Shoot Gallery" by Alyssa Shapiro, www.glamour.com. April 2012.

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• Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

  Andrea Anders

  Drama, School, Feel Good

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

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• I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Ideas, Knowing, Important

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• I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Exit Interview: Joan Jett". Interview with Richard Rys, www.phillymag.com. June 20, 2007.

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• It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

  Jim Thome

  Fun, Hate, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Sleep, Two

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• I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.

  Emily Browning

  Kids, Acting, Degrees

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• It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Down And, Way

  Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedian, Actors, Proud

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• I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

  Kate Voegele

  Elbows, Impossible, Knows

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• So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

  Carrie Underwood

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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• I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

  Delta Burke

  Fun, Thinking, Poke

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• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Actors, Being True

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