Best Used To Be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.”

“I used to be husband. I used to be a father. And now I'm just a man with a hole inside, and I don't what the he'll I'm going to do to fix it. I don't even know if I want to fix it. I don't know who I am.”

Used To Be Hole Fix It

Book:The Rancher's Baby

Source: The Rancher's Baby

“Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.”

Made Change Gone Changed Obstacles Used To Be Fragile Steel Wants Fragility She Someone Fair Porcelain Doll Turned Into

Book:Flowers in the Attic

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

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Author:Rachel McAdams

“I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.”

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Author:Don Williams

“I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.”

Used Parent Views Used To Be Dysfunctional Family

Author:Tamora Pierce

“It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.”

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Author:Charley Pride

“I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.”

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Author:Janel Parrish

“When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.”

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Author:Jason Patric

“The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.”

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Author:Stefanie Powers

“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”

Used Three House Knowing Taken Boxes Used To Be California Los Angeles Vacant

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.”

Used Cities Used To Be Edinburgh Haughty

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.”

Used Radio Used To Be

Author:Boz Scaggs

“The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.”

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Author:Francis Lawrence

“I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.”

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Author:Tom Sizemore

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up, there was a physical dimension to it, that you when you became exhausted, you'd have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.”

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Author:Tom Udall

“The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.”

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Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.”

Used Dies My Friends Moved Used To Be Music Business Nashville

Author:Lionel Richie

“If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.”

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Author:Sylvia Earle

“Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.”

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Author:Al Franken

“The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“I'm not as snarky as I used to be.”

Used Used To Be

Author:Stacy London

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

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Author:Lamorne Morris

“The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?”

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Author:Bill Mumy

“I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.”

Thinking Used Used To Be

Author:Chrisette Michele

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

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Author:Chrisette Michele

“Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.”

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Author:Holly Madison

“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.”

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Author:Gary Gutting

“I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be”

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Author:Orrin Woodward

“McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.”

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Author:Andy Cohen

“I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.”

Stills Running Used Strong Machines Legs Used To Be Bike Triathlon

Author:Pat Bowlen

“I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.”

Used Acting Used To Be Combination Dancer

Author:Patricia Velasquez

“I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.”

Used Psychology Theatre Used To Be Cinema

Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.”

Stories Used Identity Who I Am Used To Be Versus

Author:Seth Gordon

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