Never Quit Quotes - Page 10

• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

  Edward Young

  Dream, Future, Pie

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• AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

  Ryan White

  Sister, Mom, Sorry

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• We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Challenges

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• A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.

  Robert Reed

  Loss, Thinking, Intelligent

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• You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

  Jacob Vargas

  Emotion, Knows

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dressed Up, Ifs

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• We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Joy, Juxtaposition

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• I never quit. I never quit.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Quitting

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• Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

  Sam Altman

  Talking, Decision, Mediocre

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• It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Literature, Bliss

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  Hallie Ephron

  Writing, Preparation, Fiction

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• If you never quit, you're never beaten.

  Ted Turner

  Persistence, Quitting, Beaten

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• Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Commitment, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Soul, Progressive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how tightly you keep the lid on, there is some watered stock of vanity inside. You are always in danger of the thing's coming off and of giving yourself an air or two. No man or woman was ever so distinguished that this exhibition did not make him ridiculous, especially to those of meaner minds.

  Corra May Harris

  Humble, Men, Air

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• You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

  Abby Wambach

  Faces, Quitting, Circumstances

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• Bob Dylan had been a big sort of presence in my life but I'd never quite registered what he was trying to tell me. He was always this kind of figure, a sort of bear-like figure in the corner of the room. You know, every time I imagined what Bob Dylan looked like, he looked a bit like Steve Earl used to look - with the beard.

  Thea Gilmore

  Trying, Looks, Bob

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Brave, Stories, Knows

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite know where that desire to finish something, or return to something in a fresh way, is going to come from. Every time I finished a film and went back and looked at it, I had changed as a person.

  Christopher Nolan

  Desire, Way, Return

  Source: deadline.com

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• I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.

  Andrew Hollander

  Fun, Home, Years

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• It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Giving, Feelings

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• I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

  Robert Longo

  Trying, Next, Answers

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.

  Joan Didion

  Block, Writing, Knowing

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• When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

  Mark Strong

  Needs, Shifting, Sand

  Source: collider.com

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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