I Quotes
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“I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.”
“I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.”
“I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.”
“I used always to be tired. When I dig I'm not tired at all. I like to smell the earth when it's turned up [...] There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em”
Source: The Secret Garden
“I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.”
“I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.”
“I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.”
“I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.”
“I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.”
Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
“I used everything as a positive
to make me a better person and
a better player. I have no regrets.
Everytime I had to play a big game,
I played a big game. I used some of
the skepticism as a positive and motivation.”
“I used everything you gave me.”
“I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.”
“I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.”
“I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.”
“I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.”
“I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.”
“I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.”
“I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.”
“I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.”
“I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.”
“I used LiveJournal frequently, almost daily, since ~age 13 until ~18. I kept a personal diary there. I also participated in various "LiveJournal communities". At the risk of sounding patronizing or something, I see LiveJournal and now Tumblr as wonderful because they give young girls ways to interact with eachother and learn and talk about new interests, ideas etc as well as support eachother emotionally.”
“I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”
“I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.”
“I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.”
Source: A House in the Sky: A Memoir
“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”
Source: River Marked
“I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.”
“I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.”
“I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.”
“I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.”
“I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.”
“I used my pants to illustrate.”
“I used my previous failure as motivation to outwork, outhustle, and outperform everyone in the platoon. I sometimes fell short of being the best, but I never fell short of giving it my best.”
Source: Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
“I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.”
“I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.”
“I used not to know where I was going, but I knew I would arrive, I knew there would be an end to the long blind road.”
Source: Malone Dies
“I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.”
Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell
“I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.”
“I used practically all the money I had available.”
“I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.”
“I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.”
Source: Choke
“I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.”
“I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.”
“I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!”
“I used substitutes for my real needs. I needed rest or relationship or recreation, but I gave myself food or sex or shopping. Since I wasn’t supplying what I really needed, I was never satisfied. I needed to know that I deserved to have my needs met and then I had to start asking myself what I really needed and provide those things.”
Source: The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal
“I used tell people that I never was ambitious, so I won’t be disappointed. In fact, that way, you may feel a sense of surprise when you do achieve. So to my younger self, I’ll say: don’t be too fixed about what you want to do, just go for it. Whatever it is you choose, never look back and regret.”
“I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a liquid talisman for everybody else, to save them from being strangled by me.”
Source: Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
“I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.”
“I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!”