My Way Quotes - Page 29

• When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of them? Why so close together? Why were they all so young? Why, especially, in the kinds of places where we are from? Why would they all die back to back to back to back? I feel like I was writing my way towards an answer in the memoir.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Brother, Writing, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Energy, Looks

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Editors, Rivers

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different

  Dave Abrams

  Running, War, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.

  Josh McDermitt

  Struggle, Progress, Overcoming

  "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Yelling, Police

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

  Rebecca Miller

  World, Way, Painting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

  Norman Lock

  Writing, Singing, Peculiar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

  Stephen Malkmus

  People, Shining, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

  Big Sean

  Real, Mean, Rapper

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.

  Gillian Anderson

  Ebay, People, Want

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. August, 2008.

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• I want men and women to both feel a part in the flourishment of female power. So I want to celebrate that power that women have, that they acquired and are still acquiring all over the world. And it's kind of my way of joining the movement and bringing positive attention to an overgrowing awareness of females everywhere who are breaking the mold.

  Zella Day

  Men, Mold, Female

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.

  Maya Goded

  Photography, Moving, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Years, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

  Alexander Chee

  Ideas, Getting Lost, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

  Dia Frampton

  Song, Perfect, Way

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• My excitement about my life and my future makes me happy, because I am a dreamer, and I always dream, no matter how many obstacles are in my way.

  Tasha Smith

  Dream, Matter, Way

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Second Chance, Way, Lost

  "Patricia Velasquez – Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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• Feeling alone is what most likely sparked this way of thinking. Realizing that everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but no matter what, we're actually ALL together - is what has helped evolve my way of thinking about it. Life feels less lonely, and that's a big obstacle to overcome.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Lonely, Thinking, Feeling Alone

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

  Madi Diaz

  Writing, Laughing, Way

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I never fancied myself having a prejudice towards people with tattoos. I personally don't have any and I don't think that I do, but I do see that people treat me differently with tattoos. People get out of my way.

  Walton Goggins

  Tattoo, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Way, Lasts, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

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• I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

  William Monahan

  Feelings, Needs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.

  Rahim Moore

  Sexy, Football, School

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• I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows.

  Christine Taylor

  Home, Night, Way

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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