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Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.
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Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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I hate you.'
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JASON BIGGS She was like apple pie and just a normal little
girl
ALICE FAYE
I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up. RICK RIORDAN My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM
Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.'She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She came up to me one day and said 'I think it would be good if we did a fundraiser,' ... I said, 'W...
JENNIFER HAMPTON I was working on a job somewhere one day and a girl came and asked me if I knew who would collect th...
FRED SPINK My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in thea...
ARSENIO HALL
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done... CAROL BURNETT I heard a great story recently, I love telling it, of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson, she...
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CATHY MARRINAN I wanted to thank you," I said.
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RANSOM RIGGS
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted t... NANCY REAGAN
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this... ALICE WALKER My mom said it's really cool, ice cream is really good, hamburgers are good, everything? From when s...
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MICHELLE TUCKER She made fun of me. She was so funny and so beautiful, I said I'd love to date a girl like this.
BOB GUINEY I made that declaration and I didn't question it. It was clear to me what I wanted to be. My dad sai...
CESAR MILLAN
After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And she said, "I don't think this wa... GARRY SHANDLING
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ADAM GONTIER She was like apple pie and just a normal littlegirl
ALICE FAYE SHE said SHE wanted to be at Peace,, so I threw up Two Fingers...
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DENNY GRIFFIN I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on...
MEG WHITE
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even m... RICK RIORDAN
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... TANITH LEE When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'
BILLY HUNTER
She said she was in the clinic and heard a voice, ... I said, 'Yo, that was me.' NICK CANNON
So, Harry,' said Dumbledore quietly. "Before you got lost in my thoughts, you wanted to tell me some... J.K. ROWLING
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I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL After the race, I went and found him. He said not to worry about it. I thought he might rough me up ...
DAVID REUTIMANN
But I, when I undress me Each night upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me, With apple pie and ... EUGENE FIELD
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JENNIFER SCOTT
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Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.”
The girl looked at me...
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TOBEY MAGUIRE
Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was going to shoot it, but a girl was coming at me. I saw the lane was filled up on the other side...
EMILY WHITE I wanted to stay, but my granddaughter convinced me Sunday morning that we should leave, ... She was...
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SYLVIA PLATH
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. WOODY ALLEN
Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou... JOHN GREEN After I pitched, Greg Maddux came to me, and he said, 'How are you feeling? And I said my mouth was ...
ANGEL GUZMAN
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL I wanted to be a sex goddess. And you can laugh all you want to. The joke is on me, whether you laug...
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I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
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I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Li... DEMETRI MARTIN I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled ...
ANUSHKA SHARMA
I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Most folks got Id and Ego living on different floors in their head’s house, in different rooms, an... KAREN MARIE MONING
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write... SáNDOR MáRAI
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the... JOHN GREEN
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and... WOODY ALLEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
This girl, about 14, came to see me and I said, 'What are you doing out so late?' WYNTON MARSALIS My mom's reaction was the funniest. I told her I was playing in the All-Star game and she said 'why?...
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A hand touched my shoulder, shaking me. I was back on the bus. It was dark and warm and I just wante... KELLEY ARMSTRONG
I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and a... BEBE REXHA
There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa... TAHEREH MAFI Christie came to me and said she wanted to throw and wanted to get a scholarship. I knew a little ab...
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