My Way Quotes - Page 26

• I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has allowed me to speak in a kind of free way. But most African American writers don't have that. They don't have that opportunity, they don't have that.

  James McBride

  Opportunity, African American, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Reading, Heads Or Tails, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll just find my way through. And that's what I always did. I never changed too much of that.

  Dhani Jones

  Mother, Country, My Birthday

  "Best Fantasy Football Tips From Dhani Jones". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. September 4, 2014.

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• My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Father, Book, Exercise

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• That is my way of doing things, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend this to anybody else; if you need to do technical exercises, you do them. The whole point of practicing is to get to know yourself, to know your weaknesses and to zero in on them and target them. It's not really about employing anybody else's formulas, because you really have to find what is best for you and what you need.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Zero, Exercise, Weakness

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.

  John Hope Franklin

  Home, College, Daddy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.

  Tony Adams

  Dog, People, Loner

  "A way with words: the wit, wisdom and weirdness of Tony Adams". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2009.

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• I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Design, Independence, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19

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• As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Pride, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.

  Dave Allen

  Looks, Way, Outrageous

  "Dave Allen's comic quotes", news.bbc.co.uk. March 11, 2005.

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• One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coats, Way, Evening

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

  Wilhelm II

  Views, Goes On, Way

  Speech at Koenigsberg on August 25, 1910. "The Kaiser and His Times". Book by Michael Balfour, p. 157, 1975.

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• I have never let gender get in my way.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Way, Gender

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• I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

  Emil Artin

  Book, Giving, Suffering

  Emil Artin (1965). “Collected papers”

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• Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Adversity, Fire

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• I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Rams, World, Way

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.6, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.

  Pat LaFontaine

  Blessed, Nhl, Play

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

  Martin Amis

  Fun, Character, Way

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

  James Frain

  Thinking, Acting, Way

  Source: screenrant.com

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• There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

  Cate Blanchett

  Girlfriend, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, People, Way

  "‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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• When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

  Michel Gondry

  Technology, Opportunity, Way

  "‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing I always tell people. I'm not a preacher, I'm a sinner. I'm still learning and falling in a journey that God has me on and doing the best I can.

  Drew Waters

  Fall, Journey, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Strong, Fun, Husband

  Source: www.ew.com

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• The show definitely has a romantic construct, and that's a genre that I've never had access to, in a significant way. This interesting for me to see, as an Asian guy, just standing back. I just wanted to break my way into a different genre. I was tickled that it was offered to me.

  John Cho

  Interesting, Guy, Asian

  Source: collider.com

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