O Quotes
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“Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.”
Source: Property Of
“Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.”
Source: THROUGH THE FLOWER: My Struggle as A Woman Artist
“Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.”
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
Source: Optimism
“Once I knew what I was doing
I was there and with it;
I had the total knowing.
I Googled God and orgasmed
At the amount of Gods and
Monsters out there posted about.”
Source: Err and Grr
“Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.”
“Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.”
“Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.”
“Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.”
“Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'”
“Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.”
“Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.”
“Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.”
“Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.”
“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.”
“Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.”
“Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.”
“Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.”
“Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.”
Source: Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews
“Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.”
“Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.”
“Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”
“Once I made the commitment to fully live my religion, it was never a problem.”
“Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.”
“Once I make a decision, I stick to it.”
Source: Good Kings Bad Kings
“Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.”
“Once I managed to get to a sink, staring up out of it at my empty-stomached face was a collection of facial hair, discarded razor blades, plasters, snot and phlegm, all fused together into one stomach churning mass. I retched, but nothing came up. My eyes watered at the festering sight and my stomach was in knots as I ran my hand over the surface of the water. It was freezing cold. I flung the cruel liquid over my hair, then, as if straight from Oliver Twist, I asked one of the two screws that were standing over us like bouncers, ‘Is there any toothpaste, sir?”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“Once I meet the piano, I have no other choice, because I need to have a good date right! So I am trying to please the piano to have the best outcome.”
“Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, "I will be a comedic actor." I just thought, "I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get."”
“Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't love simply because I used to love him? No, I forgo nothing, I love any man who appeals to me and I make any man who loves me happy. Is that ugly? No, it is at least far more beautiful than my cruelly delighting in the tortures incited by my charms and my virtuously turning my back on the poor man who pines away for me. I am young, rich, and beautiful, and just as I am, I live cheerfully for pleasure and enjoyment.”
“Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.”
“Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.”
Source: Scar Tissue
“Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.”
“Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.”
“Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.”
“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
“Once I posed nude for a magazine. I've never been back to THAT newstand.”
“Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”
“Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.”
“Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.”
“Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.”
“Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.”
“Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.”
“Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don't need excuses.”
“Once I ran to you, now I run from you.”
“Once I re-approached music I had to do it in a way that wasn't so personal for me to feel comfortable releasing it into the world. Well, of course some of them are, but I would never talk in an interview about exactly what a song is about. I like to keep my music and my life separate.”
“Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.”
“Once, I read a novel by a Nobel laureate. The protagonist was a poet, and I expected to read poems in the novel. There were titles of poems, but no poems. It made me think how the Nobel laureate would feel if he went to a restaurant and was given the menu but no meal.”
Source: ROMANCE & FINANCE