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I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'
‐‐ KSI

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
‐‐ M. F. Husain

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.
‐‐ Jean Craighead George

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
‐‐ John Cusack

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.
‐‐ John Engler

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.
‐‐ Paul Weller

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
‐‐ Robert Mitchum

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.
‐‐ John Carney

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
‐‐ Samantha Fox

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
‐‐ Mary Chapin Carpenter

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
‐‐ Vidal Sassoon

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
‐‐ Alton Brown

I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
‐‐ Toyin Odutola

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
‐‐ Laura Bell Bundy

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

I kick it when I kick it, but I definitely take care of business. I make sure everything is tight, my finances are tight, my family is tight, my friends are perfect.
‐‐ Juicy J

I kick it with a whole bunch of people, whereas some people only want you to kick it with one race, you know.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
‐‐ Josh Radnor

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.
‐‐ Slick Rick

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.
‐‐ Ronald Biggs

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
‐‐ Betty White

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

I kill myself for my body.
‐‐ Cheryl Mendelson

I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.
‐‐ Harvey Martin

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
‐‐ Daniel Handler

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
‐‐ Taylor Phinney

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.
‐‐ Lianne La Havas

I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.
‐‐ Rupert Graves

I kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see your hard work pay off. I mean, if I'm gonna skip the In-N-Out burgers, there better be light at the end of the tunnel!
‐‐ Jonathan Lipnicki

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?
‐‐ Kris Carr

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.
‐‐ Justin Halpern

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.
‐‐ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
‐‐ James Polshek

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.
‐‐ Nick Carter

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.
‐‐ Nick Jonas

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.
‐‐ Chris Colfer

I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.
‐‐ Krist Novoselic

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
‐‐ Christopher Moore