#topped

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #before #did #directing #few

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#afraid #already #being #being afraid #dead

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all. ↗

— Burl Ives

#behind #being #broken #broken glass #class

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away. ↗

— Nik Kershaw

#away #chords #could #else #fighting

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy. ↗

— Kimbra

#good #haven #i #lead #might

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding. ↗

— Richard King

#exhaustion #financially #funds #i #i am

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration. ↗

— Hal Lindsey

#been #disintegration #going #i #now

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#ever #his #i #jefferson #judge

I can assure you the hemorrhaging has stopped. I asked remaining caucus members if they adhered to the party program, if they would stay in the PQ and that they would be by my side. They all said yes. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#asked #assure #caucus #hemorrhaging #i

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#before #being #children #long #most