I Quotes
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“I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.”
“I can't worry about what other people say.”
“I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck.”
“I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.”
“I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.”
“I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.”
“I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.”
“I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.”
“I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.”
“I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.”
“I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.”
“I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.”
“I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical.”
“I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.”
“I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.”
“I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated fences and things like that, because it just grounds me in a way that I can't find in a hotel room.”
“I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think it's more difficult for those who need the music to read from than for those who play by ear.”
“I can't write songs unless I am in love.”
“I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.”
“I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.”
“I can't write what I don't believe in.”
Source: Conversations with Dorothy Allison
“I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.”
“I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.”
“I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.”
“I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.”
“I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.”
“I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)”
“I can't. You can't rewrite the past.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“I can't... I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really..." Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The...”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.”
“I can't live without posting pictures.”
“I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.”
“I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.”
“I can, therefore I am.”
“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.”
“I can`t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime.”
“I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.”
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“I cannae believe you let me touch you.” His voice grew hoarse. “I shall remember this for all my nights.” Tears speared into her eyes. Dearest Virgin Scribe, for all her life, she had waited for a moment like this…. “Do not cry.” His thumb went to her cheeks. “Beautiful female of worth, do not cry.”
Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I cannont believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.
But I do not sit back and sneer in cowardice at those with the courage to fight. The blood of good men makes the earth rich, as it is here. When I die sword in hand, I hope someone lives to sing of it. I live my life so that when death comes I may die well. I ask no more."
~Jublain~”
Source: Sackett's Land
“I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.”
“I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.”
“I cannot abide being bored.”
Source: A Glass Half Full
“I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.”
“I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.”
“I cannot abide useless people.”
“I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.”
“I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century