My Way Quotes - Page 28

• I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

  Nina Simone

  Strange Places, Way, Hours

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cancer, Book

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

  McCoy Tyner

  Mind, Trying, Way

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• You have to be open to change. I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, You know, they're right, that's better. Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, Yesterday, Tree

  "Power House". Interview with Emmie Twombly, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2006.

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• I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call.

  Drake

  Office, Needs, Quota

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

  Lynsey Addario

  Blessing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If it's too much for people, if audiences don't accept it, well I guess that's just the way it is. I'm not being cavalier when it comes to my financial partners, but I think I've earned the right to do my thing my way. While I really want it to do well and it would be lovely if it's popular, movies are for a long time. I'm really proud of the piece. If it ends up not connecting with audiences, I won't be heartbroken. I'll be a little disappointed, but I won't be heartbroken.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Heartbroken, Thinking, Long

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• It's been interesting that a diversity of roles have come my way, and that I've had the opportunity to do them. To me, it's about going for a good role that has something to say, and that's a challenge. I've been lucky enough to play everything from a homeless guy to this crazy male nurse.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Crazy, Opportunity, Play

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

  Corey Smith

  Writing, Way, Therapy

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• I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

  PJ Harvey

  Attention, Pay, Too Much

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• I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.

  Vanilla Ice

  Rap, White, People

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• I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.

  Liz Phair

  Brother, Cousin, Males

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• My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

  Kevin Hart

  Fun, Way

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• I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Thinking, Hands, Mind

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• What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1334, Delphi Classics

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• I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

  Patton Oswalt

  Clothes, Car, House

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• I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

  John Cage

  Feelings, Want, Way

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• As a filmmaker‚ like any artist‚ when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts‚ my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician‚ you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.

  Ryan Coogler

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Watches, Television, Way

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• Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now.

  Lionel Messi

  Home, Son, Fatherhood

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• I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Morning, Writing, Procrastination

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• Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Kids, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Men, Thinking, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.

  Kina Grannis

  People, Decision, Vision

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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