Maggie Stiefvater quote: "When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'"

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to...
FIONA APPLE

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi...
BARBARA KRUGER

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th...
JENNIFER CONNELLY

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ...
HANS MATHESON

When I tell people I'm a space scientist studying asteroids, they sometimes assume I'm a sup...
CARRIE NUGENT

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my ...
CHRISTIAN KANE

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any ...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had ex...
ALANIS MORISSETTE

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
MOS DEF

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every da...
ERIC CHURCH

When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have spl...
DAVID THEWLIS

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong moth...
APRIL BLOOMFIELD

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools ...
ALEXANDER KOCH

I played a trial game for Reading against Brentford. Then the coach told me that they couldn't a...
JIMMY HILL

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of co...
DAVID RUSSELL

I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from...
KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I ha...
NIA VARDALOS

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;...
JUSTINA MACHADO

There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research...
GARTH DAVIS

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not say...
IDRIS ELBA

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I...
IMELDA MAY

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH

When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an...
MISSY ELLIOTT

I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weeke...
THEO JAMES

Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five ...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclinati...
ROB JAMES-COLLIER

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They'...
DENNIS MILLER

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tin...
ACE FREHLEY

I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to ...
LEWIS HAMILTON

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I...
JAMES STEWART

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I...
BRUCE FORSYTH

I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going ...
EUGENE SIMON

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting...
JULIA CAMERON

That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an ...
FRED KOREMATSU

I don't really know how my family and friends will react to seeing me on screen in a cinema. I&#...
BEN HARDY

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are use...
KID CUDI

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert...
PAIGE VANZANT

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said ...
DONALD SUTHERLAND

I just want to be myself, and I really, like, can't say I'm sorry for it. I just can't.
AIDY BRYANT

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES

I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that sat...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist...
JON SECADA

I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working ...
MAYA ANGELOU

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the e...
HARMONY KORINE

I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year...
LELE PONS

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like...
BYRON HOWARD

One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection...
BRUCE MCGILL

When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi...
TINK

One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else...
LONI LOVE

When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I ju...
ELENA ROGER

I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, '...
CRAIG ROBINSON

'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised tha...
PAIGE VANZANT

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r...
DENNIS FRANZ

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects an...
ELIZA COUPE

Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymor...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ...
NIA LONG

I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't ...
ALANA STEWART

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you ...
DEMETRI MARTIN

I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm goi...
SINEAD O'CONNOR

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I d...
PATTI SMITH

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'T...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ...
JULIA GLASS

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been ...
ED WESTWICK

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn...
BURNING SPEAR

Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't thin...
CHARLYNE YI

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'...
SIA

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I

I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I

On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I

casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I

I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I

I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I

I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I

I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I

I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I

You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I

I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I

Married to the Mob.
LIKE I

Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I

I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I

throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I

I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought...
DAVID JOHANSEN

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a...
JACK MA

My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through ...
ANTHONY MACKIE

It's crazy. I couldn't believe it going from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men.' I was ...
BEN HARDY

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musi...
MARY LAMBERT

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest abou...
DANIEL TAMMET

When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so s...
LAURA MARANO

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