Used To Be Quotes - Page 14

• I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

  Chris Evans

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

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• People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Reality, People

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

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• It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

  Will Wright

  People, Coworker, Neighbor

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• Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

  Don Marquis

  Keys, Atoms, Gone

  Don Marquis (1916). “Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers”

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• He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

  David Frost

  Psychology, Miserable, Used

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• Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

  John Adams

  Abuse, Usual, Goes On

  John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Lester Jesse Cappon, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

  Scott Adams

  Stupid, Funny But True, Degrees

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

  John Mayer

  Used, I Can

  Song: Who Says, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

  Steven Wright

  Narrators, Used, Mime

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• A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

  Neil Tennant

  Sex, Moving, Gay

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

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• One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

  Kenneth Clark

  War, Swans, People

  Kenneth Clark (1969). “Civilisation”

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• I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They went "Aaaaahhhh..."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Phones

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• I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Keys

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• In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

  David Brooks

  Character, Self, Views

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Quality, Television

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.

  Zack Snyder

  Growing Up, Character, Track

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Thinking, People, Forgiving

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt and Breckin Meyer Get Furry With Garfield". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.

  Tom Felton

  Games, Weather, Mad

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Typewriters, Feet

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel good, dance. Don't leave the club feeling worse than you did before you got there! That's what music used to be for.

  The-Dream

  People, Feel Good, Feelings

  "The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Writers of "Umbrella," "Single Ladies" and More, Explain How to Make a Song Good". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, www.gq.com. March 17, 2015.

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• A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.

  Ethan Hawke

  Editing, Editors, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke's fifth elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Nice, Believe, Reality

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Men, Class

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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