I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
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Related I don't think it would be good for me to have sex at this age. It might ruin my life and education. JENNY LEE It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. MARK HOPPUS I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. HELEN REDDY I serve to a large drinking and smoking crowd and currently it is the choice of people who come to t... MIKE LIBBY I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this fi... GEORGE CLOONEY I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,... VINCE CLARKE I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it... JOANNE WOODWARD I have no reason to feel bitter or think about anything in the past. This is the best place I can be... JASPER JOHNSON I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker ... ALLAN SAVORY And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a... JEFFREY ARCHER I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think... STEPHEN KING Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is... JANE AUSTEN There is no smoking, eating or drinking. But we do have restrooms. DEE ROBERTS The gesture was there, but it's like wrestling, ... They do all kinds of stuff and there's kids in t... PATRICK ROY It was more mental than anything. She got in my head and I shouldn't have let her, but I did. I was ... LAIME CONTRERAS I have a couple of more years left before she (Emma) starts kindergarten and then I have to think ab... BECKY IVERSON I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or ano... VANESSA PARADIS 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease... BEAU WILLIMON Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, i... ELLIS PETERS My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I ... AARON LEVIE It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind.... BILL MEDLEY I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wis... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they woul... LISA KLEYPAS I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about w... ANN LECKIE If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it. DEYTH BANGER I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learn... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to b... MADDIE ZIEGLER I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ... RICHARD FEYNMAN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late agai... SARAH DESSEN I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's sh... JANA KRAMER In one way yes, in other ways, no. Yes, because it was only three years and I did well. Still, it's ... GIOVANNI SAVARESE When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don't do anything special to maintain my voic... ARIJIT SINGH To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life. ALAIN ROBERT I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II Sometimes I read one of my stories, maybe one that I wrote thirty years ago, and I think, Now I'd go... ALICE MUNRO I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on si... BROOKE NEVIN I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kickin... JOE BASTIANICH I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I don't think it changes anything too much, in terms of what he might do at the next meeting -- it's... IAN GUNNER I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ... J MASCIS I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perh... HENRY ROLLINS The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth o... JAMES FREY Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smo... OLIVIA COLMAN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD You're going to say 'what about other kids?' They get hurt in other sports but I think it would have... DON CHERRY Very early on, I decided I didn't want smoking in the movie. It's not really a movie about smoking, ... IVAN REITMAN It hasn't felt weird or out of place at all. You need to be in a different type of shape for it, but... ERIC MUNSON I really don't think about it too much because I'm already prepared and I know what I have to do. I ... BRAD HONEYCUTT Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to c... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book — though it would be foolish of me not to... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to con... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ... PHILIP PULLMAN I don't think I really have the insight or the inquiring to be an astronomer, and I don't think I ha... SAM NEILL It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it&... SALLY KELLERMAN I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arl... ALAN HOVHANESS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I didn't particularly want to live much longer than that. Life seemed rather daunting. It seems so t... MARYA HORNBACHER If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answe... AUDRE LORDE After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses.... WALTER DEAN MYERS Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it. CHRIS RIDDELL Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don't think anybody did. We have too many days off and too many pitchers -- 15 were pitching for t... DENNYS REYES All of these factors are important in delaying or preventing daily smoking, but parental smoking is ... KARL HILL I stopped drinking because my body simply would not do it anymore. And fortunately, when I saw that ... BARBARA COOK My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do wan... JENN PROSKE I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; o... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business... BARRY ALVAREZ until you prove what is in you, what is in you shall always be what is in you ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think there was too much of a coincidence to believe that I won't ever get to be with him again. I... BRANDI KNIGHT I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image. COURTNEY LOVE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD No one here has gone without medication or been in jeopardy of going without medication. I think it ... LARRY STEPHENS It is tough right now with the field events. We only have a couple of throwers and we're in a good t... GREG ZOPATTI Of course I miss my arm and my legs and stuff but I don't dwell on it or get upset about anything. J... CAMERON CLAPP For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha... THOMAS PAINE I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency, but I think a... TOM BAKER I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. ... SUZANNE VEGA I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very mu... SAIF ALI KHAN Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to ... SAAD HARIRI I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot kno... FRANCIS SPUFFORD I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicte... ELLIE GOULDING
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Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new ... JEANETTE MICHELLE Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up ... JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like... JEANETTE WINTERSON It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ... JEANETTE WINTERSON Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. JEANETTE WINTERSON If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an... JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i... JEANETTE WINTERSON our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi... JEANETTE WINTERSON The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa... JEANETTE WINTERSON Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl... JEANETTE WINTERSON You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ... JEANETTE LEBLANC It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo... JEANETTE WINTERSON History is a madman's museum. JEANETTE WINTERSON Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol... JEANETTE WINTERSON I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close... JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl... JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ... JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi... JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ... JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha... JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green. JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i... JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A... JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species. JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t... JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death. JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ... JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran... JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ... JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I... JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every... JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ... JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood. JEANETTE WINTERSON Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?” (205) JEANETTE WINTERSON Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the sho... JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L... JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. JEANETTE WINTERSON Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,... JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi... JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl... JEANETTE WINTERSON