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• I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Architecture

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• One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

  Bernie Taupin

  Years, Interviews, Quitting

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

  Tiger Woods

  Buddhism, Quitting, Meditating

  The ESPN Interview, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2010.

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• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

  J. D. Salinger

  Opposites, People, Sick

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• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  Barry White

  Birthday, Senior, School

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

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• Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

  Max Lucado

  Somewhere Else, San Antonio, Quitting

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.

  David Sedaris

  Drinking, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. “I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn’t say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can’t get those years back. But maybe if I hadn’t been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra… stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stress, Mean, Years

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• I don't feel like I possess a particular political intelligence, and when I read work that does, I feel like somebody else is going to have the right political thing to say. As a citizen, I feel an enormous need to respond, and immediately post-election, I felt like, What is my work worth? Should I quit what I'm doing and go work on the 2018 election now? How is what I'm putting into the world meaningful?

  Zoe Kazan

  Meaningful, Political, World

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

  Lena Dunham

  Acting, Balls, Wonderland

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I went to court-reporting school to study stenotyping. After awhile, whenever anybody spoke, in my mind my fingers would be punching it out. Even two years after I quit, my mind still did that.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  School, Years, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

  James Caan

  Quitting, Fortune, Caught

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• Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Quitting, Institutions

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

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• Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

  Taylor Momsen

  Decision, Age, Band

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

  Paul Pierce

  Golf, College, Kansas

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• It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

  Olivier Martinez

  Boxers, Quitting

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• Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one important habit, then I might be tempted to cheat on my eating plan, stay up too late, or skip my Bible reading. If I stay faithful in doing something that I don't enjoy, I tend to believe that I'm disciplined. Therefore, I eat better, go to bed on time, and stay in God's Word.

  Craig Groeschel

  Hate, Reading, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Mother, New York

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• I used to work in TV and quit the job because I couldn't do it any more. I quite like taking my time over a film, five years is how long it takes me to work something out. And when you just do quick turnover, turnaround, I'm literally this is driving me mad, I want to find another living. I'll just have to find a creative way to tell the story.

  Asif Kapadia

  Long, Mad, Creative

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

  Missy Peregrym

  Sports, Jobs, Vancouver

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• I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

  Roseanne Barr

  Beer, Feel Better, Smell

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• The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

  Robert Stone

  Giving Up, Typewriters, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can take this job and shove it because I quit.

  Jim Ross

  Jobs, Wwe, Quitting

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