I Quotes
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“I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.”
“I don't make promises, I promise results.”
“I don't make promises.”
“I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden.”
“I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time”
“I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more important than what you're actually making. There's too much of that in the world - in everybody's world, not just in music. There's too much, "Are you hip to this kind of stuff?" "Hey, this is cool." "Are you hip to it, because this is what we're selling today?" I think it's bullshit.”
“I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.”
“I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.”
“I don't make rules myself. I didn't study enough to be able to make them. I'm too stupid. I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Even at times when we had a very tight and difficult schedule, it was always enjoyable. Of course I wonder if the film will be successful afterwards. It's wonderful if a film becomes successful as a result of the enjoyment that we had”
“I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.”
“I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music. I'm not looking at the calendar.”
“I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.”
“I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.”
“I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.”
Source: Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril
“I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.”
“I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.”
“I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.”
“I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.”
“I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.”
“I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.”
“I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.”
“I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.”
“I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.”
“I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.”
“I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.”
“I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.”
Source: The Tommyknockers
“I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.”
“I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.”
“I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.”
“I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.”
“I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.”
“I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.”
“I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.”
“I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.”
“I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.”
“I don't mean to be bashful, but I was”
“I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.”
“I don't mean to be funny.”
“I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.”
“I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.”
“I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.”
Source: Tenderness
“I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me.”
“I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.”
“I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.”
“I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list”
Source: Chime
“I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.”