Quitting Quotes - Page 37

• I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church." I knew it wasn't right for me before I ever tried it. I was suspicious of anything outside my realm of experience. That same kind of attitude carries over into 12-step programs, because they are programs. There's this feeling that you don't need this bullshit, you can quit on your own. People that don't know anything about it seem to have a better idea. They haven't even been.

  Bucky Sinister

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

  Fred Melamed

  Careers, Long, Acting

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.

  L. Todd Rose

  Senior, Girlfriend, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.

  Schoolboy Q

  Pain, Giving, Needs

  Source: djbooth.net

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• If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Rights, Would Be

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

  Jami Attenberg

  Smoking, Challenges, Cigarette

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

  David Rees

  Difficult Times, Census, Sharpening Pencils

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we had Urmuz, who was a surrealist before the term even existed. During Breton's era too, there was a very active Romanian Surrealist group (Ghérasim Luca, Gellu Naum, etc.) closely related to the French. They had to quit their activities as soon as the Soviet communists took over.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Hands, Forever, Groups

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

  Davy Rothbart

  Trying, Bags, Huffing

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• My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

  Jill Sobule

  Guitar, Parent, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

  Princess Superstar

  Drinking, Yoga, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.

  Sean Mackin

  Mom, Art, Growing Up

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• I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.

  Theresa Wayman

  Thinking, Drummer, Shows

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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true. Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Mother, Dream, Self

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

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• Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself.

  Fetty Wap

  Loyalty, People

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Stories, Mood

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.

  Sally Field

  Thinking About You, Want, Done

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• I mean, I've - these other films were flukes. I don't know what I'm doing. I should just quit. What would I miss? I'd miss my house and I'd miss going to work. But I think the thing that I realized I would miss most is probably similar to everybody, which is your friends.

  Pete Docter

  Mean, Thinking, Missing

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.

  Christian Hosoi

  Cutting, Cells, Drug

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs and going to church. I went with her once but that was it. After the arrest, I didn't know what I was going to do. She told me to trust in God but I mean, I was looking at ten years and was like, "God? I'm not dying, I need a lawyer. I need bail."

  Christian Hosoi

  Girlfriend, Mean, Years

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When commanded by the Jewish officials to quit invoking the name of Jesus Christ, Peter responded, "And there is salvation in no one else: for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Remember, Peter was a Jew, speaking to a group of Jews, claiming that there is no salvation for Jewish people - or anyone else - apart from faith in Jesus Christ.

  Robert Jeffress

  Jesus, Men, Names

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

  Loretta Lynn

  Husband, Hate, Home

  "Loretta Lynn: The queen of country music on 55 years in the biz". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. February 27, 2016.

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• I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.

  Andy Daly

  Selfish, Drinking, Wife

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

  Ben Fountain

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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