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“I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Remember Used Night Stars Black White Watches Late Should Have Actresses Black And White Youngsters Pun

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.”

Believe Used I Believe I Believe In Karma Stealing I Believe In Karma

Author:Andy Dick

“I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check and use the pen, and I would keep the pen.”

Writing Use Used Stores Stealing Checks Pens Back In The Day

Author:Rich Fulcher

“I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.”

Littles Ideas Used Bits Acting Struggle Little Bit Singing Entertaining

Author:Dan Bejar

“I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I'm like, "Well, that's over and done with, and I can't control the outcome, so move on." I just remember that it's entertainment I am making.”

Wells I Can Done Remember Moving Used Struggle Performances Entertainment Outcomes Dwelling

Author:Julia Stiles

“I used to study the night, the stars, while camping next to my car. I learned names from an old star chart that I carried along with my highway maps. Mintaka, in Orion’s Belt, the bright left eye of the Bull. Sirius. Vega. Trying for a direction beyond anywhere possible, I looked at distant points of bright light. I wished that I could find out where I was going by navigating by the light that had traveled forever.”

Stars

Author:Steve S. Saroff

Source: Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.”

Wells Used Suffering Pride Excessive Pride

Author:Francesca Annis

“I used to suffer from many frustrating discomforts that almost paralyzed me, and this happened during circumambulation as well as otherwise. I turned to the recitation of The Opening and rubbed over the spot where it hurt, and it dropped like a pebble. I have experienced this a number of times. I would take a tumbler filled with the water of zamzam, recite The Opening over it many times and drink it, and find the benefit and strength that I have not seen in any remedy. The matter is in fact greater than this, but [its benefits obtain] in accordance with the strength of faith and soundness of belief, and God is the Helper.”

Wisdom Healing Advice Islam Illness Islamic Muslim Quran Cure Ibn Qayyim

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Source: Ranks of the Divine Seekers A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1 (Islamic Translation)

“I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.”

Men Want Pain Used Suffering Animal Poor Week Sight Horse Sticks Endure Driven One Man Another Man Slaughterhouses Limping

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”

Mind Used Certain Evil Energy Sound Enemy Virtue Our Lives Design Vices Possession Supplies Sound Mind

Author:Charles Brockden Brown

Source: Wieland, Or, The Transformation

“I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.”

Thinking Problem Used Answers Brain Subjects Complexes Complicated Experiments Suspects Impressed Representation End Times Spend Time Distracted Reflecting Complex Problems

Author:Patricia Churchland

“I used to take acting so seriously, but after we did the Quest pilot and the show sold, Kurt Russel said, "You know, you work too hard. You'll make yourself sick. You can't work that hard doing a series, because it goes on so long. It's like a baseball season. You've got 162 games. You can't just go all-out the first week or two. You can't maintain that pace." And it's true.”

Long Acting Week Baseball Sick

Author:Tim Matheson

“I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.”

Used Singers I Realized Amphetamines

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.”

Art Jobs Used Cooks Culinary Chickens Chef

Author:Gorilla Zoe

“I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.”

Feels Mean Said Faces Used Values Courses Simple Sweet They Said Face Value

Author:Sharon Tate

“I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.”

Way Book Might Used Boys Watches Five Advice Television Six

Author:John McGahern

“I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.”

People Ends Used Identity Independent Disaster Resentment Hostage

Author:Elton John

“I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.”

Said Home School Used Teacher Example Instruments Musical Neglect Senators Public School Charlie Bud Benign Elementary School Musical Instruments Music Teacher

Author:Max Roach

“I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill and had to close her nylon-walled smoky shack. But all the wit and cunning of the character came from her.”

Character Will Power Interview

Author:Stanley Gazemba

“I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.”

Want Two Used Mother Week Drivers License Two Weeks Yosemite

Author:Dave Brubeck

“I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?”

Stories Home Used Girl Reading Imagine Reactions Short Story

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.”

Knows Bigs Used Space Deals Laughing Ears Big Deal Space Between Laugh At Yourself

Author:Gillian Anderson

“I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.”

Men Used Goes On Deeds

Author:Confucius

Source: Lunyu

“I used to take photographs just to remember people.”

People Remember Used Photograph

Author:Gus Van Sant

“I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.”

Faces Used Sleep Draws Red Wake Up Going To Sleep Markers Pillowcases

Author:Kid Cudi

“I used to take taekwondo and made it to brown belt.”

Made Used Made It Brown Belts Taekwondo

Author:Stacey King

“I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Children Eye Pain Used Suffering Courses Views Perspective Comfort Meaningful

Author:Zadie Smith

“I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.”

People Used Fun Hurt Personal Life Fun Things

Author:Claire Danes

“I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.”

Wells Children Enough School Used Parent Teach Summer Vacation Delighted Private School Summer Vacation

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“I used to teach dance lessons.”

Used Teach Lessons Genocide

Author:Eartha Kitt

“I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.”

People Mean Feelings Kids School Artist Teach College Canvas Furious Fling

Author:David Small

“I used to teach psychology, and I don't do that anymore. I teach spirituality. And the way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.”

Spirituality Teach Psychology Listening

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.”

Writing Use Used Views Teach Students Benefits Prison Point Of View Narrative Opponents Boxers

Author:Norman Lock

“I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times throughout my life. People say, "You read the dictionary?" I say, "Yes, and you can really believe it."”

People Knows Believe Used Teach Know How American History Dictionary

Author:Jackee Harry

“I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.”

Used Artist Mets Graffiti

Author:Banksy

“I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.”

Sometimes Used Sports Black Like You Throwing Marijuana Jackie

Author:Pee Wee Reese

“I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.”

Knows Firsts Wells Used Mom Sake Well Being

Author:Jillian Michaels

“I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.”

People Ifs Country Would Be Political Used Politics Marriage Clear Husband My Husband Soulmate Family Values

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.”

Writing Book Used Students

Author:Anne Lamott

“I used to tell myself that I regretted the choices I’d made in my life. But every choice, including the wrong ones, made me who I was.”

Fate Regret Choice The Lighthouse Witches

Author:C J Cooke

“I used to tell myself that I regretted the choices I'd made in my life. But every choice, including the wrong ones, made me who I was... -both the good and bad experiences strengthened you, shaped you. We are not just made of blood and bone- we are made of stories. Some of us have our stories told for us, other write their own- you wrote yours.”

Stories Choices Who We Are Experiences Liv The Lighthouse Witches C J Cooke Olivia Stay

Author:C.J. Cooke

Source: The Lighthouse Witches

“I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.”

Want Years Wells Stills Happens Used Records One Day Jokes Wake Up

Author:Frankie Knuckles

“I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'”

People Ifs Want Used Church Audience Sermons

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.”

Men Said Stories Hands Inspiration School Young Used Black White Boys Saws Focus High School Negative Corners Boards Young Man Broads Professors Sheets Dots

Author:Kofi Annan

“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”

Used Half Roles Students Daughter Graduates Patriarchy Rebellious Graduate Students

Author:Carol Gilligan

“I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.”

Young Used Order Shoes Ties Preacher Power Of God

Author:Paul Washer

“I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?" "Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.”

Looks Used Mother Guy Lines Look At Me Register Frowning Sophia Lauren

Author:Melina Marchetta

“I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.”

Thinking Littles Made Book Used Numbers Wonderful New York Drawing Potters Tokyo Harper

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one...”

Source: Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage to Redemption - My True Story

“I used to think a partner would complete me, but I now understand that no one can ever complete a man but himself. Instead of being a half-moon waiting for another half to complete me, I now aspire to be a full moon - whole and beautiful.”

Love Love Quotes Loneliness Love Quotes And Sayings Loneliness Quotes Loneliness Of Life

Author:Jeffrey Alcuizar Igot

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