I Quotes
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“It just so happens that when I was, like, 19 or 20, I got a couple of auditions and got a couple parts with good people. Of the thousands of auditions where you don't get the part, I've done a couple of jobs where you do it and you're like, "Okay, this is good."”
“It just so happens to be true. We've drifted apart recently. I can't tell her about you because she wouldn't understand that we can be just friends. Anyway, I'm a hopeless liar, it's best just to tell her nothing: Admittedly, he was getting better at lying. Practice certainly does make imperfect.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.”
“It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.”
“It just started raining here in the Philippines. I love the sound of rain on a tin roof. It sounds so majestic.”
Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
“It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.”
“It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.”
“It just sucks when you’ve given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.”
“It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko”
“It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.”
“It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.”
“It just takes little contentment to put fuel in a cynical heart.”
“It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.”
“It just takes time. I have to ride the roller coaster to the end.”
“It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.”
“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”
“It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for him that when I called him, I thought, I'm going to get on Sun Records. So I called him and he turned me down flat. Then two weeks later, I got turned down again. He told me over the phone that he couldn't sell gospel music so - as it was independent, not a lot of money.”
“It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.”
“It just wasn't fair. All the things I had seen here, I would never forget. I just want to go home. Page 196”
Source: Kindred
“It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.”
“It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.”
“It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.”
“It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores”
“It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.”
“It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?”
Source: Crystal Gorge
“It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.”
“It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.”
“It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of the seas and build an international space station, we have not been able to make childbirth safe for all women around the world. ... This is one of the greatest social causes of our time.”
“It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.”
“It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.”
“It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.”
“it kept him from seeing the tears that were forming at the corners of my eyes, threatening to test the waterproofness of Macey’s new mascara,”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“It kept man [. . .] in such a constant dither of debate and "can't-do want to" frustration as to make him finally just a spotted, soggy mass of compromises and self-invented shames.”
“It killed me that people had to cancel their dreams for endless toil, unless of course we somehow managed to pull ourselves out of these late-stage capitalist dark ages and into a Star Trek (TNG) future blessed with a universal basic income and sweet jumpsuits.”
Source: Super Fake Love Song
“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
Source: Ilustrado: A Novel
“It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.”
“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
Source: The Book Thief
“It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.”
“It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.”
“It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you call a meet and greet. I do it before the show. But when I was doing it after the show especially, there would be people who would come back and said, OK, Smoke, where's the party?”
“It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.”
“It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.”
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
“It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.”
“It kind of depresses me when people decide to move away. I get it, you want your kids to have somewhere to roam free or to recreate whatever your sort of childhood ideal was, but my kids are grand. I love LA because lifestyle wise, it's near the beach and mountains and it is great for kids but then it's a city built on an industry that, at the end of the day, is kind of facile.”
“It kind of hit me at some point during the process that most people in the film business - not just the executives, the people who make them, too - tend to come from pretty upper-class backgrounds. If they go work a job, it's to have that experience, that sort of thing. After they graduate college, they have time to go visit Europe and take some time off and get their heads together. That kind of thing, I sure didn't have.”
“It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.”
“It kind of limits what we can call the albums.”
“It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.”
Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths
“It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of it? Will I forget what she looked like? What it looked like when the sun reflected on her hair? The way her pillow always smelled like her? Will my memory of her run out too?”
Source: What I Didn't Say