Personal Stuff Quotes

• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

  Molly Shannon

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

  Ann Patchett

  Stuff, Nonfiction, Best Work

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

  Mark Gatiss

  Light, Laughing, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Reading, Government

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• If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.

  Marcelo Claure

  Eight, Media, Long

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I really wouldn't censor myself. But because it was on such a slower scale, I would throw things out, and I indulged the personal stuff as little flashes of truth. Little in-jokes for anyone who was paying particular attention.

  John Hodgman

  Attention, Littles, Stuff

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

  Alex Scally

  Six Months, Stuff, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.

  Johan Santana

  Team, Winning, Order

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• The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mother, Art, Wall

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

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• There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Stuff, Songwriting

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• L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

  Mike Mills

  Giving, Stuff, Way

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• I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

  Elon Musk

  Hate, Writing, Use

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

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• I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Views, Stuff

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• It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hurt, Moving, Self

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• I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Stuff

  "My Life Is Good: Chatting With Randy Newman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.

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• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  Rachel Bilson

  Trying, Stuff, Keep To Yourself

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• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  Sammy Hagar

  Baby, Stuff, Als

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