Used To Be Quotes - Page 2

• I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

  Bernie Mac

  Names, People, Laughing

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Thinking, Film And Television

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• I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

  Chrisette Michele

  Thinking, Used

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• I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

  Chrisette Michele

  Country, Art, School

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standing". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

  Holly Madison

  Mcdonalds, Taste, Fast Food

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• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

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• What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

  Gary Gutting

  Thinking, Knowing, Goal

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• I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

  Matthew Perry

  Character, Guy, Rooms

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• You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be

  Orrin Woodward

  Want, Used, Changed

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2017

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• McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.

  Andy Cohen

  Mcdonalds, Two, Favorite Places

  "Andy Cohen Got the 411". Bon Appetit interveiw, www.bonappetit.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.

  Pat Bowlen

  Running, Strong, Machines

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• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Dancer, Acting, Used

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• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Psychology, Theatre, Cinema

  "The Films Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Retrospective", www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

  Seth Gordon

  Who I Am, Identity, Stories

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

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• I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

  Victoria Legrand

  Strong, Thinking, Voice

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• The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

  Waverley Root

  Drinking, Character, Fiction

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• The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

  Peter York

  Community, House, Generations

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• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  Martha Wainwright

  Children, Dad, Night

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• Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Design, Would Be

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• I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.

  Marlen Esparza

  Fighting, Sparring Partner, Years

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• My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Cutting, Jeans, Problem

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• Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

  Jose Padilha

  Technology, Impact, People

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• It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

  Edwin Starr

  Records, Used, Company

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• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  Gedde Watanabe

  San Francisco, Singers, Used

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• I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Numbness, Boredom, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.172, Penguin UK

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