Quitting Quotes - Page 17

• When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Volleyball, School, Player

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

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• Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?

  James Lee Burke

  Hurt, Wall, Mistake

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• I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

  Bela Lugosi

  Play, Interesting, Roles

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

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• I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

  George Lopez

  Writing, Exercise, Years

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• It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

  George Lopez

  June, Firsts, Stage

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Marine, Research

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, College, Years

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

  J.A. Konrath

  Two, Anxiety, Complaining

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• Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

  Robert Lipsyte

  Fun, Writing, People

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• For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Strong, Men, Work Out

  "Jennifer Lawrence talks 'X-Men,' fame and 'Hunger Games'". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.washingtonpost.com. May 29, 2011.

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• I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

  Jean Smart

  Years, Smoking, Together

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Perfect, Stage, Ifs

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• I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

  Ralph Stanley

  Believe, Home, Rocks

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• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

  Zoe Saldana

  Ballet, Dying, Felt

  "Zoe Saldana On Why She Quit Ballet As A Teen: ‘I Was Dying Inside’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Guilt, Failing, Standards

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Boscer, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

  Bernie Taupin

  Years, Interviews, Reason

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

  Jim Talent

  People, Unemployment, Gone

  "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judith Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.

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• Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Jobs, Novelists, Males

  "Battle of the authors' sexes continues" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

  Kenny Wormald

  Believe, Thinking, Hard Times

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• I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Country, Never Quit, Cornerstones

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• Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Jobs, Boys, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jul 09, 2011

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• Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

  George Meany

  Giving Up, Fighting, Odds

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• Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Awareness, Gifted, Offers

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• 90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Persistence, Failing, Defeated

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