Used To Be Quotes - Page 12

• It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Beautiful, Broken, Strange

  Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.

  Bethany Mota

  Who I Am, People, Community

  "True Life: I'm A YouTube Star". Interview with Kristin Tice Studeman, www.elle.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

  Christopher Plummer

  Years, Challenges, Technique

  Source: collider.com

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• I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.

  Piggy D.

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

  Rex Smith

  Stars, Years, Careers

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.

  Alicia Keys

  Intelligent, Thinking, Careers

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• A friend who used to be my customer told me one day: "I promise I am going to help you to be relocated." He's a realtor and after he bought two buildings in the business district in Boston, he said: "Are you ready for your next place?" I could not believe it.

  Julie King

  Believe, Boston, Two

  "10 Questions for Local Food Entrepreneur: Julie King". Interview with Rachel Greenberger, blogs.babson.edu. July 30, 2014.

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• What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

  Dermot Mulroney

  People, Library, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• The Iranians are not going to cede any kind of power. They're not going to cede any kind of control. [Hassan] Rouhani used to be the nuclear negotiator. Any YouTube saying this is our mission to become nuclear. He's not going to change his mind.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mind, Nuclear, Hassan

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.

  Bob Beckel

  Strong, Hate, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Book, Reading

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more during the post production process and now they're clamoring to get in. So, the director and the editor end up teaming up sort of against the studio to fight what they're doing and you lose the creative tension that you used to have between an editor and a director.

  Michael Sucsy

  Fighting, Editors, Creative

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

  Benjamin Barber

  Spring, Mean, Security And Freedom

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

  Ira Kaplan

  Forgiving, Opinion, Accepting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

  Marc Maron

  Anxiety, Different, Panic

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Father, Unique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

  Robert Reich

  Country, Princess, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.

  Eva Longoria

  Workout, Cheerleading, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Stars, Memories

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

  Heidi Klum

  Children, Feelings, Responsible

  "'I Didn't Think the Girl was Too Fat'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. February 10, 2006.

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• You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Depressing, Lying, Party

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Interview with Debbie McQuoid, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Sexy, Art, People

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

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• The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

  John Waters

  Art, Mean, Counter Culture

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