"With this job, always traveling on the plane and everything, I thought it would be really difficult to quit drinking on my own because you're always in situations where it's acceptable to have drinks. So I decided right after a show that I was going to go into treatment. I Googled a bunch of places, and I found this place that I went to in Cape Town, South Africa, called Stepping Stones. I stayed there for a month. It was really difficult-lots of talking and crying."
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"If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit."
"I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church."
"If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit."
"Hee begins to die, that quits his desires."
"When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope."
"Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready."
"We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."
"Quit jumping over our feelings!"
"We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying."
"My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon."
"I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction…You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game."
"I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it."
"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."