My Past Quotes - Page 5

• I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Past, Clean, Conscience

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• I don't have a preference for bad people, no. I have an interest in playing a broad range of characters. Obviously, I'm mostly identified with a character who is very responsible, very solid and very intelligent, but there are plenty of questionable characters in my past career. I'm interested in exploring theatricality and characters with some dimension.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Character, Past, Intelligent

  Source: collider.com

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• I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.

  Hilary Swank

  Grateful, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my past life I was assassinated. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

  Kesha

  Believe, Past, Honest

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Past, Stories

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Drama, Past, Would Be

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• I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Future, Past, Forecasts

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• Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Stars, Hero, Past

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

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• I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!

  Traci Lords

  Successful, Past, Spite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.

  Traci Lords

  Struggle, Kids, Past

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• Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Dream, Past, Two

  Song: Getaway Machine

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• Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Past, Realizing, Heal

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• My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Past, Secret, Politician

  Jennifer Ashley (2012). “The Duke's Perfect Wife”, p.19, Penguin

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• I've had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves – you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.

  Paris Hilton

  Mom, Past, Names

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• Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Reading, Past, Influence

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Past, Thinking

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• And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

  Han Nolan

  Fear, Past, Path

  Han Nolan (2008). “A Face in Every Window”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Relationship, Past, Race

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• Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

  D. T. Max

  Mistake, Past, Discovery

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Football, Cutting, Past

  Source: www.muscleandfitness.com

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• I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Past, Night

  "Paul Weller heads across the universe on 'Saturns Pattern'". Associated Press interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 10, 2015.

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• One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.

  Marie Calloway

  Home, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Past, Arbitrary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after I allow myself to feel it and be human, I try my best to put things in perspective and start moving forward again. 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

  Pain, Struggle, Moving

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