Quotes About Transition

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my friends were going as well. It wasn't this kind of hidden love. Then, slowly, my friends stopped going and I thought, 'I like this. I am going to stay.'

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I didn't know how to socialize. I wasn't able to date. I felt like I was missing out on life. When I stopped diving, I started living.

I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.

I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.