#stopped

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#childhood #developed #forth #heart #i

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#days #driving #drunk #entire #entire career

I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#ago #always #any #anyway #get

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#i #never #novel #seriously #since

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#became #good #hit #i #make

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#definitely #draw #drawings #drew #grade

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. ↗

— Colman McCarthy

#did #millennia #our #problems #stop

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#connected #hand #may #multiple #other

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working. ↗

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#again #go #had #look #lost