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• I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

  Nina Dobrev

  Hard Work, Gymnastics, Work Out

  "Nina Dobrev's New Chapter". Interview with Michael Pena, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

  Slash

  Guy, Band, Matter

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

  Slash

  Gun, Reality, Years

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

  Slash

  I Quit, Stills, Seems

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

  Wendell Pierce

  Jobs, Night, Next Day

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• If I were a weaker man, I would have quit. Something is testing me, I'm not a religious man, so I'm not going to throw the God word around.

  Grieves

  Religious, Men, Testing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess if everything went tits up, having no work whatsoever, obviously you have to do something else. At the moment I don't see myself quitting, but I'm open minded about it.

  Max Irons

  Open Minded, Moments, Ifs

  "Max irons assumes his throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.

  Halle Berry

  Dream, Life Changing, Teenager

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

  Roger Ailes

  Integrity, People, Excellence

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• I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.

  Joe Manganiello

  Pain, Way, Driving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

  Mark Hoppus

  Ungrateful, Band, Disrespectful

  "Blink-182’s Hoppus, Barker Blast ‘Ungrateful, Disingenuous’ Tom DeLonge". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 2015.

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• When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Grandma, Boys

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• Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.

  Lynn Hill

  Moving, Mean, Acceptance

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• I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have gone in a very scary direction. We may have gotten to where disco music ruled - and I would've had to quit.

  Jeff Baxter

  Thinking, Disco Music, Scary

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• That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

  Adam Carolla

  Sports, Dream, Writing

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

  Jenny Holzer

  Writing, Numbers, People

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Two, Trying, Balls

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Mistake, Thinking

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• When people get scared, they quit giving.

  Dave Ramsey

  People, Giving, Scared

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• I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

  Conor Maynard

  Piano, Lessons, Want

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

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• People ought to quit talking to the press.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Talking, People, Ought

  "McAuliffe Tells Penn: Stop Talking To The Press" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I'm going to quit writing.

  Sidney Poitier

  Writing

  "Sidney Poitier's book addresses great-granddaughter". www.today.com. June 9, 2008.

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• There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

  Stephen Leacock

  Running, Trying, Firsts

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Frenzied Fiction”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Character, Thinking

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