My Past Quotes - Page 11

• There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always will be in progress. And who I am, on different days, different moments, depends on different aspects of my past.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Past, Progress, Different

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

  Zadie Smith

  Past, Truth Is, Ends

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.150, Vintage

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• I'm very nostalgic, and I spend a lot of time in the past, in my mind. That's part of my challenge, and what I really want to do is, I want to be present. I want to leave that in the past. When I say nostalgic, I mean my own life. I spend a lot of time reflecting on my past and not being able to process time.

  Diane Birch

  Mean, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.

  Gerald Gardner

  Believe, Past, People

  Gerald Gardner (2004). “The Meaning of Witchcraft”, p.3, Weiser Books

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• When I talk to Ryan Murphy or Ali Adler about my past or things in my personal life, occasionally pieces of that will end up in the script, and I think that's true of everybody. It's true of that entire writer's room, certainly of Ryan and Ali. I think that he writes really well for actors, for his actors, and he writes to their strengths. I always feel very well taken care of with him.

  Andrew Rannells

  Taken, Writing, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment.

  Shirin Neshat

  Mother, Past, Attachment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Regret, Past, People

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• If you think it's necessary to judge me by my past, don't get mad when I put you there.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Past, Thinking, Mad

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• I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

  Trista Sutter

  Struggle, Blessing, Past

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of my past, it's all a part of my story, but this is who I am now. This was a really important thing to have an hour special that lets them in and kind of meet me for the first time, truthfully.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.

  Brad Katsuyama

  Past, Personality, Would Be

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life." "Oh boy." My nose wrinkled. "Hello, Mr Comfortable. I'm Miss Complicated." His grin flashed. "Never a dull moment.

  Sylvia Day

  Past, Boys, Issues

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.260, Penguin

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• I need some space." "Because of my past?" "No, because of mine. When I'm around you I feel like I'm falling. I need to stop before I smash into the ground." "Are you always so honest?" "No. Mostly I'm a liar like you.

  Anna McPartlin

  Liars, Fall, Past

  Anna McPartlin (2008). “Apart from the Crowd”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

  Joss Whedon

  Nice, Mean, Past

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• I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.

  Donna Karan

  Educational, Book, Writing

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.

  Megan Hart

  Past, Men, Normal

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• Also to have someone tell you when you can come and go. When I was faced with that decision, I just drew back on all my past decisions and especially my time in jail that this isn't the road I want to go down. That's why I really made a commitment towards school.

  John Starks

  School, Commitment, Past

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  Interview with David Sheff, www.john-lennon.com. January 1981.

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• I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Past, Survival

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4860, Delphi Classics

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• I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

  Ian Somerhalder

  Past, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

  Michelle Shocked

  Marriage, Writing, Acceptance

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• I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

  Rene Magritte

  Beautiful, Art, Boys

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• I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• One of the biggest things I struggle with in life is not being present. I'm worried about my future or I'm dwelling on my past, and I'm wondering why I'm not feeling so great right now, but it's because I'm everywhere else, besides what is currently happening in front of me.

  Mark Webber

  Struggle, Past, Dwelling

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past.

  Nikki Reed

  Past, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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