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“I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.”

Way Years Has Beens Wanted Progress Couple Cost Let Me Injury Championship Continuity

Author:Cesc Fabregas

“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.”

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Author:Philip Pearlstein

“I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.”

World Soul Wanted Half Pride Cost Islam Determined My Soul Making Peace

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.”

Men Play Bigs Wanted Black Too Much Cost

Author:Robin Williams

“The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.”

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Author:Edwyn Collins

“Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.”

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Author:Riccardo Tisci

“I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.”

Author:James Ellroy

“The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?”

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Book:Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control