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“I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.”

People Looks Able Artist Steps Materials Look At Me True Artists

Author:Haley Reinhart

“I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.”

Able Film Careers Independent Blessed Studios Independent Film

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.”

People Want Long Able Alive I'm Alive

Author:John Raitt

“When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.”

People Looks Able Wife New York Ready Scared My Wife Freeze Limelight

Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.”

Important Ideas Different Able Film Careers Huge Who I Am Bats

Author:Kim Raver

“To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.”

People Knows Ideas Able Together Laughing Path Stage Abstract Beaten Making People Laugh Make Me Happy Beaten Path Off The Beaten Path

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.”

People Has Beens Book Character Able Millions Pressure Series

Author:Nikki Reed

“I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.”

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Author:Noomi Rapace

“In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.”

Thinking Want Looks Able Careers Shots Athlete Best Shot

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.”

Able Justice Chance Injury Marathon

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.”

Humans Looks Able Human Beings Actresses

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.”

Looks Mean Done Able

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

“I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.”

Able Dies Musician Jazz Drinking Clubs Obscure Jazz Music Jazz Musician Funky

Author:Sonny Rollins

“I've been able to do a lot of interesting things.”

Able Interesting Interesting Things

Author:Stephen Root

“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.”

Should Country Done Able Sides Pride Proud Standards Accounts Genuine Our Country Fallen Be Proud Flip

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?”

Knows Mean Has Beens Different Care Kids Able School Together College High School Hanging Out Good Friend Who Cares Nerdy Clique

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.”

People Thinking Able Grows Careers Economic Skills Reinventing

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Ideas Able Pay Willing Higher Pay The Price Grids

Author:Dana Spiotta

“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.”

Thinking Kind Persons Play Light Able Guy Actors White Color African American Stereotype Latino American Guys Ethnic Stereotypes

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.”

Able Mom My Mom Close Relationship

Author:Jessica Szohr

“I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.”

People Thinking Has Beens Moments Able Night Interesting Mets Late Meetings Release Most Interesting Instagram Late Night Best Moments

Author:Kevin Systrom

“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”

Has Beens Stories Able Wanted Growing Up Growing Depends Adults Ancestor Storyteller Great Gifts

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.”

Ifs Knows Long Hard Dream Able Wanted Winning Felt Determination Tennis Motivated Long Life Slam Stay Motivated Drive And Determination

Author:Samantha Stosur

“When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.”

Want Feels Able Tennis Momentum

Author:Samantha Stosur

“Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.”

Long I Can Able Acting Havens Long Time Opposites

Author:Tammin Sursok

“We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.”

Able Wanted Conditions Shapes Zero Gravity Acceleration Zero Gravity

Author:Alan Shepard

“I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Done Able Roles Audience Disguise Chimpanzees

Author:Alexander Siddig

“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”

Want Writing Children Hands Able School Parent Study Special Demand Tests Ears My Children Shakes Statistics Contracts Public School Accounting Calculus Preps Special Education

Author:Amity Shlaes

“I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.”

Thinking Mind States Able Parent United United States Citizens China Educated France Global Citizen

Author:Anna Sui

“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”

Firsts War Hands Able Fronts Glasses Officers Vodka Cucumbers

Author:Asne Seierstad

“I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.”

Feels Able Steps Fortunate

Author:Boz Scaggs

“People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.”

People Ifs Want Should Able Republican Democrat Campaigns Candidates

Author:Brian Sandoval

“I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.”

People Ifs Reality Able Fiction Remains Fiction And Reality

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.”

People World Able Special Succeed Creating Realms Special Things

Author:David Selby

“Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.”

Mind Wells Able Enjoy Ability Incredibles Tangible

Author:Donna Summer

“You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.”

Should Able Adults

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Helping Able Asks Position

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Feels Trying Matter Able Guy Player Response Strive Coaches Know It All

Author:Gordon Strachan

“It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.”

Long Sometimes Able One Thing Television Blessing Backfire

Author:Katey Sagal

“I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.”

Needs Light Able Guy House Wall Couple Bulbs Light Bulb Toolbox

Author:Kristy Swanson

“All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.”

Should Believe Reason Able Christian Sake Deeper Reason Why Confused

Author:Lee Strobel

“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.”

Ifs Knows Men Able Values Wish Knowledge Wife Minutes Mere Submit Desirable Maids Hem Ruffles

Book:Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to be able to will away these forces, to see they're insubstantial.”

World Able Winning Force Enlightenment Block Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.”

Would Be Able Records Republican Weak Barack Candidates Romney One On One

Author:Rick Santorum

“On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”

Has Beens Ends Able Sports Fields Racism Giants Bus

Author:Hank Aaron

“Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.”

Thinking Writing Kind Littles I Can Ideas Happens Able Boys Novel Path Cutting Willing Holes Leap Get Back Broads Sections Blackness Right Path

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

Men Should Writing Has Beens Two Book Different Use Able Courses Language Written Century Letters Originals Titles Theme Copies Apes Imitator Use Of Language

Book:Planet of the Apes

Source: Planet of the Apes

“In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.”

World Needs Wisdom Able Order Universe Deals Teacher Buddhism Dimensions Mysticism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz