My Way Quotes - Page 25

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  Kate Flannery

  Nice, Opposites, Careers

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• I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

  Michel Gondry

  Jobs, Cutting, Jumping

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• My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Kids, Defense

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

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• I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

  Lily Allen

  Want, Way, Very Famous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Book, Soul, Letters

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• Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, School

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• Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

  Bill Bryson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Balance

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• My plan is to make the best of whatever comes my way.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Way, Plans

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• To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Motivation, Mean, Discovery

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Memories, Moving, Home

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• I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony.
  
  I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

  Lester Holt

  Morning, Independent, Echoes

  "Lester Holt: Fulfilling a promise to Class of 2010" by Steve Veres, www.today.com. May 15, 2010.

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• I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

  Adrienne Bailon

  New York, Humble, Cities

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• When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

  Maria Popova

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

  William T. Vollmann

  Book, Way, Remember

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play in a band. I would always have liked to be a substantial writer, to write country music for big singers. I had all sorts of proclivities, but I never had any big success.

  Chuck Barris

  Country, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, People, Way

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my way - I don't mean physically - over them being afraid something isn't going to work.

  Gordon Willis

  Hate, Mean, People

  "All women look beautiful to me now". Interview with Chris McCoy, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

  Wesley Morris

  Responsibility, Addresses, Way

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Powerful

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

  Doug Liman

  Track, Diaries, Way

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• I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

  Kenneth Cranham

  Teacher, School, Orange

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• I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "Collider Interviews Sunny Mabrey and Michael Angarano". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 5, 2006.

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• I'm going out... because I deserve to go out! And I'm going to get drunk... because I deserve to get drunk! And get out of my way!

  Bill Cosby

  Drunk, Going Out, Way

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". m.imdb.com. 1983.

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