My Passion Quotes - Page 11

• Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Passion, Play, Piano

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• My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Fire, Literature

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• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  Salma Hayek

  Passion, Speak English, United States

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2003.

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• I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

  Lauryn Hill

  Song, Passion, Thinking

  "Is it the return of Lauryn Hill?" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2010.

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• My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

  Steve Irwin

  Passion, Television, Enthusiasm

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• Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

  LeBron James

  Family, Basketball, Mean

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• My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Passion, Heart, Giving

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• My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

  Jack Kemp

  Passion, Ideas, Partisans

  "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995.

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• I love music; it's my passion.

  Ja Rule

  Passion, Music Love, I Love Music

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• My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Passion, Blessing, Opportunity

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• Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

  Tove Jansson

  Passion, Special, Mines

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• I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Passion, Darkness, Lasts

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• I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Passion, Heartache, Way

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Jobs, Crazy, Believe

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Flower, Passion

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?" "A long time ago." "That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life… my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win…" She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Stupid, Passion

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• I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.

  Leyla Zana

  Passion, Love Life, People

  Leyla Zana (1999). “Writings from Prison”

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• I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
  Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
  Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
  For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause
  But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
  Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Passion, Pride

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• When I was little - like in preschool - I was very shy, but whenever I went on stage I just exploded. Ever since then I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Music has always been a part of me, music is my passion.

  Manika

  Passion, Shy, Littles

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Passion, Ballet, Pleasure

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

  Betty White

  Passion, Exercise, Animal

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

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• My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything.

  Alyssa Milano

  Running, Passion, Levels

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• Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, First Love, Lust

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Heart, Sight

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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