My Past Quotes - Page 6

• At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.

  Yoshi Wada

  Couple, Past, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

  Frederick Buechner

  Character, Past, Creative

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

  Taylor Momsen

  Past, Choices, Want

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

  Ryan Tedder

  Past, Cynicism

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.

  Julia Roberts

  Past, Long, Gaps

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• I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

  Hillary Clinton

  Past, America, Goal

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• I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.

  Shura

  Growing Up, Past, Borrowing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and some of the Garbage sessions because my daughter, who's 10-years-old, when she was about 6 or 7 she was more curious about what I do. I have all these platinum records and stuff, they've all just been in boxes in storage for years but I started just digging through those things because I sort of want her to be aware of my past. I never really put the old recordings on and listen to them and go, "Oh that sounds great."

  Butch Vig

  Daughter, Past, Done

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We do have the ability to shift our paradigms - by shifting our belief systems, by working on ourselves, by looking very closely at how we show up in the world. It's why I'm into health and wellness. It's why my partner and I are very focused on creating a life that is about being connected; it's about being present. Because my life was probably so much in the past. I was so fearful. I was so fearful of the future because I was so scared of my past. So if you can work towards being present, then you can shift.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Past, World, Belief

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

  David Duchovny

  Memories, Past, Ghost

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.

  Gary Larson

  Morning, Reflection, Past

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course, was all about my past, and many of the short stories cleave very closely to my life, but the more stories I wrote in the collection, the more that seemed to be invented, but who knows... I think I'm writing about a young woman with acne who shoplifts, but I'm really writing about myself.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

  Sloane Stephens

  Past, Would Be, Earth

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• My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

  Curtis Jackson

  Wall, Past, Choices

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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• After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Past, Challenges, Soul

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• During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

  Tom Rachman

  Writing, Past, Careers

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• I don't want to be remembered for my activities of my past, but for what I am doing today. By that I mean, I don't want to rest on my laurels satisfied by my past deeds. I want to contribute to the advancement of our Folk each and everyday.

  Richard Kemp

  Mean, Past, Everyday

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• I go to my past in order to discern the future.

  Catherine Doherty

  Past, Order

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1979). “Fragments of my life”

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• I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Humble, Past, Ashamed

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• I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Good Life, Past

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.

  John Waters

  Home, Past

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• My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

  Lauryn Hill

  Beautiful, Past, Order

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• When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Imagination, Trying

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Taken, Eye

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

  Scott Hamilton

  Life, Hate, Past

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