I Quotes
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“I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.”
“I developed a reputation as a "hothead" because I got in the face of a lot of reporters and they thought I was just a hotheaded person. What they didn't understand was that I was motivated by love.”
“I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.”
“I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.”
“I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.”
“I developed a thirst for great art, but it wasn’t until I was 20 that I finally visited my first museum, the Prado in Madrid. There, in 1968, my interest was caught by the paintings of Luis de Morales, a 16th-century artist from the harsh Extremadura region of Spain.
Morales was a Mannerist, like El Greco or Parmigianino, who painted very graceful figures with long necks and limbs. He did a magnificently smooth sfumato modelling. But the effect that impressed me the most was a fine line that he applied around all of his figures. He didn’t need those illustrative lines, but they really made his figures ‘pop’ off the background.”
“I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.”
“I developed atopic asthma after living an allergy free life until my forties.”
“I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.”
“I developed my personality to acquire freedom to do the things that I could learn somehow.”
Source: OFW Struggles Hopes and Dreams
“I developed my police survival techniques during developing research on utility company corruption.”
“I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.”
“I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.”
“I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.”
“I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.”
“I developed several comedy phone calls.”
“I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.”
“I developed strange intestinal problems when working at very high altitude on Mauna Kea. Intestinal pains and bouts of loose stools. Dietary experimentation lead to the conclusion that eating a diet that comprised of lots of steamed vegetables when home would reduce the symptoms.”
“I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.”
“I developed the nutritional supplements in the book ‘COVID Supplements’ to enable me to have a milder COVID-19 infection. When I was eventually infected with COVID-19, it was the mildest flu-like sickness I ever had!”
“I developed this compulsion to clean as a sort of protection ritual performed when I felt even the slightest bit abandoned, an eventuality that tormented my young imagination.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“I developed this compulsion to clean as a sort of protection ritual performed when I felt even the slightest bit abandoned, and eventuality that tormented my young imagination.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.”
“I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.”
“I devised a test.
I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I'd turn it off and on - sometimes for millisecond - and she never failed me. Each time it was off, she's move and mutter - each time it was on, she'd sleep.
By the time the headlights from Amy's Nova turned into our driveway, my suspicion had been confirmed. My mother has a more intimate, connected relationship with this television than she has ever had with me.”
Source: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
“I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.”
“I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.”
“I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.”
“I devote well over an hour at target practice for two reasons. First, there are a number of new weapons to train with, and I want to test them all out. Second, I naturally visualize Isla’s face in place of the target sheet, and I never get tired of blasting her head into smithereens.”
Source: Beyond Reach
“I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.”
“I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.”
“I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.”
“I devour, and I am devoured," Marx said.
"After Dov, I think I'm through with devouring," Sadie said.
"I understand why you'd say that, but I also don't think you should give up on the devouring yet." Marx growled at her and pretended to bite her, and then he kissed her on the cheek.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I devour it and then I lose it and sometims I can’t reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but th knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.”
Source: Blackwood Farm
“I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.”
Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard
“I devoured books, drank words, studied everything I could get my hands onto. I bounced between music, logic, theology, history, literature, and art.”
Source: Broken
“I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.”
“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.”
“I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel.”
“I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.”
Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
“I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.”
“I dialed the 9 and the 1. Maybe that was a bit paranoid, but I preferred to think of it as prepared.
After all, while I was only half-white, I was definitely doing the thing in horror movies where Caucasian women inexplicably went toward the danger instead of away from it.”
Source: The Healer and The Wolf: Part One
“I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I said after his hello.
"Mclean?" he asked. "Is that you?"
"Yeah," I said, swallowing and looking out my open door, at the ocean. "The answer's yes."
"The answer . . ." he said slowly.
"You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you."
He was very quiet for a moment. "Where are you?"
I started crying again, my voice ragged. He told me to calm down. He told me it was going to be all right. And then, he told he'd be there soon.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.”
“I did "Highlander", which was just an extraordinary wonderful experience. I'm really proud of "Highlander". And they keep trying to re-make it...good luck to them. I do not want to be involved. But, yeah, I'm really proud of that one.”
“I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.”
“I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.”
“I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.”
“I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.”