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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

— William Hague

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I gave up on music. I still love to play, but it's too hard to make a living. And I think that was a mature decision to make.

— Levi Dylan

I gave up my childhood for a career.

— Brenda Lee

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

— Kaskade

I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

— Paige VanZant

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

— Laura Lippman

I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.

— Robert Woodrow Wilson

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

— Isaac Marion

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

— Juliana Hatfield

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

— Caprice Bourret

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

— Harry Connick, Jr.