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“I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.”

People Feels Jobs Used Next Waiting Attention Trade Next Day

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.”

Thinking Want Shows Feelings Wanted Used Vision Fans Sticks Who I Am Trust Myself

Author:Mac Miller

“I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.”

Used Language I Realized English Language Dictionary

Author:Nas

“I used to keep a strong scaffolding in place. It separated Pure Land from Zen Zen from Dao Dharma quarantined from the way of mountain spirits. With a sudden glance in the middle of a storm, the bottom dropped out the scaffolding fell along with my mind and all of these nectars poured into the same vat.”

Poetry Zen Dao Kami Shinto

Author:Frank LaRue Owen

Source: Temple of Warm Harmony

“I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.”

Used Reading Education College Hiding Mail Textbooks Roommate

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.”

Kind Persons Able Used Talking Blame Addiction Blame Someone

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.”

Thinking Used Car Bed Kissing Wheels Steering Ocd

Author:Rich Fulcher

“I used to know a carnival man turned preacher who said the key to his success was understanding the people of what he called Snake's Navel, Arkansas. He said in Snake's Navel, the biggest thing going on Saturday night was the Dairy Queen. He said you could get the people there to do damn near anything --pollute their own water, work at five-dollar-an-hour jobs, drive fifty miles to a health clinic-- as long as you packaged it right. That meant you gave them a light show and faith healings and blow-down-the-walls gospel music with a whole row of American flags across the stage. He said what they liked best, though --what really got them to pissing all over themselves-- was to be told it was other people going to hell and not them. He said people in Snake's Navel wasn't real fond of homosexuals and Arabs and Hollywood Jews, although he didn't use them kinds of terms in his sermons.”

Red State Mentality

Author:James Lee Burke

Source: Swan Peak

“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.”

Broken Heart Poets Consumption Young Men Brian Howard

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.”

Knows Used Building Christmas Vacation Apartment Jennifer

Author:Johnny Galecki

“I used to know where I was going but as I get older I just seem to arrive there!”

Crime Police Thriller Novels Detective Suspense Thriller Uk Female Detective Somerset Levels

Author:David Hodges

Source: Witch Fire on the Levels

“I used to know you the best and now I don't even remember your name.”

Lost Love Broken Love Broken Friendship Missed Memories

Author:Mya Waechtler

“I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.”

Seems Used Lays Drunk Alleys

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.”

Able Used Rookies

Author:Chili Davis

“I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.”

Ifs Way Doe Happens Would Be Used Waiting Realizing Deals Happened Right Now Negative Used To Be Supposed To Be Bother Unimportant Waiting For Something Unimportant Things

Author:Doug Davidson

“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”

People Ifs Way Want Used Struggle Opposites

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle”

Lasts Used Car Rap Bubbles Avenues Franklin

Author:KRS-One

“I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.”

Children Used Lying Wall Terror Entertainment Stores Awake Toys Blank Furniture

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source: The Yellow Wall-paper

“I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.”

Hard Used Lying Night Passion Willing Hard Work Determination Awake Awake At Night

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.”

Stills Faces Used Lying Night Dark Tree Hair Window Clean Fingers Teeth Nails Sheets Baths Knuckles

Author:Frances Farmer

“I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.”

Used Lying Feet Grew Draws Possession Grass Squares Blades Meadows

Author:John Ruskin

“I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls over on her back so she's staring up as well. 'Bet this view hasn't changed much, has it?' What she says is so simple i almost laugh. She's right, of course. 'No. This looks exactly the same.' I suppose that's the secret, If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.”

Ifs Way Wells Looks Long Used Lying Courses Wish Simple Views Secret Laughing Sky Changed Summer Come Up Staring Look Up Wishing For Things

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”

Ifs Happens Used Lying Imagination Imagine Bed Flats Zombie

Author:Simon Pegg

“I used to lie on his bed for an hour before bedtime or on a Saturday afternoon and read to him and then when he graduated to books with chapters sometimes he read. I'd look over at him, at his entire body, which appeared to have grown in the last few minutes; his lips moved and his eyes danced and darted across the page and I'd think: my son can read; he can comprehend things, he is making discoveries and he will soon have even more opinions about the world.”

Children Reading Growing Up

Author:Terry McMillan

Source: How Stella Got Her Groove Back

“I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.”

Way Today Used Weight Twenties Presses Heavy Lifts Benches Heavy Weights

Author:Eric Bana

“I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.”

Play Remember Film Used Girl Acting Football Afternoon Saturday Rainy Streisand Saturday Afternoon Funny Girl

Author:Sean Harris

“I used to like doing school plays.”

Play School Used School Plays

Author:Jamie Waylett

“I used to like eating frozen corn straight out of the bag. But I also love microwaving frozen corn and adding butter and sugar and garlic powder and chili powder to it. And sometimes I just like to microwave it and add a little bit of hot sauce to it. My friends always laugh at me when they catch me eating it.”

Littles Sometimes Used Bits Laughing Eating Little Bit My Friends Hot Add Bags Sugar Frozen Corn Sauce Powder Garlic Catch Me Microwaves Chili Hot Sauce

Author:Thu Tran

“I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.”

Thinking I Can Used One Thing Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Significance Fly Fishing

Author:John Gierach

Source: At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman

“I used to like girls with nice hands and legs, but now, as long as she loves me and doesn't leave me, that would be fine.”

Long Hands Would Be Used Girl Nice Fine Legs Leaving Me

Author:Jaejoong

“I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.”

Ifs Used Social Party Principles Support Security Decided Reactions Rebel Social Security Mccain

Author:Gail Collins

“I used to like people more, but now I have children and that changes your life in a lot of ways. Like you spend time with people you never would have chosen to spend time with, not in a million years. I spend whole days with people, I'm like, "I never would have hung out with you. I didn't choose you. Our children chose each other based on no criteria by the way. They're the same size. They don't care who they make me hang out with."”

People Thinking Way Years Children Whole Care Used Millions Laughing Like You Our Children Size Don't Care Chosen Hanging Out Hung End Times Changing Your Life Spend Time Criteria

Author:Louis C. K.

“I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.”

Writing Book Enough Used Reading Overflow

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it... I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.”

Thinking Kind Being The Best Smoking Zone

Author:CJ Fly

“I used to like studying a lot.”

Used Study

Author:Juan Manuel Marquez

“I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.”

Knows Looks Used Highlights

Author:Zach Gilford

“I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.”

People Used Found House Rooms Break Empty Comforting Empty Houses

Author:Jared Leto

“I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.”

Used Bills Smog

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.”

Littles Different Film Used Song My Own Classical Music Clip

Author:Lana Del Rey

“I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.”

Film Used Naked Helen

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.”

People Writing Used Challenges Enjoyed Comedian

Author:Denis Norden

“I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.”

Used Baseball Bars Neighborhood Imitating Oklahoma Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Billy Crystal

“I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.”

Way Firsts Play Used Records Stones Starting Rolling Good Way Rolling Stones

Author:Tommy Bolin

“I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.”

Way Feels Trying Mean Feelings Kids School Used Left Perfect Teacher High School Rain My Way Defeated Overwhelmed Homework Left Out Perfect Days Feeling Down Cool Kid Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Kara Lindsay

“I used to listen to all the voices in my head that told me I wasn’t good enough, or that I would fail if I tried, or that everyone would judge me harshly for my truth. I used to let one fear or the other dictate how I chose to live my life. Not surprisingly, my life didn’t change much. I spent a lot of time with regret, and thinking about what could have been. I found myself wishing I’d at least tried to do some of the things I’d been so afraid to do. So I began to. I made the choice to hear all the fearful critics in my head without actually listening to them. I gave them a voice, but no longer a say. I had given all the power to my fear, after all, so it was within me to take it away. And my entire life changed, as every life does once we insist that our fears take a backseat to our courage and desire. Fear may not be a choice, but the commitment to take brave action, despite our fears, is always there for the choosing. I spent enough time obeying my fears. Too much time. Now I listen to different voices, the ones reminding me that no matter what happens, no matter what people think, the great potential of my life, and joy, lives within my commitment to live my life beyond my fear.”

Love Inspiration Truth Desire Wish Fear Voice Change Courage Critics Choice Listen

Author:Scott Stabile

“I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.”

Country Used Boys Western Everyday Radio Stations Radio Stations Bluegrass

Author:Otis Rush

“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Mean Littles Persons Beautiful Used Song Hours Behinds Tree Mets Reflection Window Decided Glasses Staring Bedroom Just Listen

Author:Stephen Chbosky

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.”

Ifs Helping Used Song Realizing Effects Singing Profound Garlands Singing Songs

Author:Diane Keaton

“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"”

“I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way.”

Way Trying Wells Used Found Parent Dad My Dad Divorced Bonding Headphones

Author:Teddy Thompson

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