Maria V. Snyder
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ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ATHOL FUGARD BEDE GRIFFITHS ADAM SANDLER It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay... KYLE ANDERSON Vicky said she had been thinking about some changes, maybe not being so involved in the retail side ... MALAIKA GROVE She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a t... CASSANDRA AUSTEN I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ... JUAN DIXON DON SHULA DON SHULA I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven yea... BRYAN ROBSON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that h... SCOTTIE PIPPEN I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something. BUSTER PERKINS CHRISTIE HEFNER MONICA LEWINSKY I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down... MELANIE BENJAMIN It was a similar shot to the one I had on 18, but if you turned those two around, there could've bee... CASEY CLENDENON I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying a... SCOTT ANDERSON I was tired, but I had to suck it up and go back in and do my job. EDDIE SILAVONG PHILIPPA GREGORY AUDREY HEPBURN I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the ... ALFONSO RIBEIRO SARAH DESSEN (I was) immediately mortified that maybe somebody else had said that earlier in the broadcast, becau... JIM NANTZ The best job I ever had was serving as chief deputy in the district attorney's office. I loved every... GREGORY SKORDAS I had to step it up and play under control. We went out and played as hard as we could. I had to go ... ANDRE FRENCH I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in ... SARA BLAKELY JAMES SALTER BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON 'School Daze' was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to ... BILL NUNN My wife and my daughter had been asking me to cooperate from the first day. I didn't do it. BURTON KAPLAN W. BRUCE CAMERON There's no doubt in my mind I understand basketball as well as anybody. My assistants and I have a g... DAMON BAILEY I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it,... PETER COOK I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my car... RANDY MOSS DOROTHY ALLISON I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromi... JULIET MARILLIER While I was on the academic sabbatical of 1956-1957, I also entered into marriage. Alicia had gradua... JOHN NASH MITCH ALBOM TREY ANASTASIO It makes it all worthwhile. It makes everything we had to go through as a team and everything I had ... JEROME BETTIS I used her as the reference for anyone who called me that wanted a job and had no place to live. ANN LABORDE CAITLYN JENNER Every day, I woke up and had my bag sitting at the door. All I had to do was grab it when my agent c... CHRIS SPENCER I was so broke. I was just trying to keep it going, keep the band going and writing all the time. ..... CHARLIE SEXTON I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I ... ALFONSO RIBEIRO PETER STUYVESANT JHUMPA LAHIRI ASHTON KUTCHER BEN AFFLECK I wish she had been alive to see it. When I was a little girl, I used to lock myself in my room and ... ELIDA REYNA SARA SHERIDAN I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much impo... AAMIR KHAN I kept thinking ---- why did I go through all this? But the entire time I had prepared for 'The Appr... ELAINE SWANN She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal. THOMAS NELSON PAGE DELILAH I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted. RICK JAMES But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds... PATRICIA CLARKSON Ingrid had been practicing well and doing well, so I decided to go with her. KEITHA GREEN He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON CLARA BARTON JESSICA ST. CLAIR PATRICIA HIGHSMITH JIDENNA BENAZIR BHUTTO JEN LANCASTER I felt like I had a cannon on my shoulder. But I had no control of it at all. It's just tough to hav... DANA EVELAND CORNELIUS VANDERBILT RUTH REICHL W. BRUCE CAMERON I had already won three times as project director, so I told her if she was serious about this, she ... DAWNA STONE It was fortunate to have that restart. My car was probably the best it had been, and his car was pro... RYAN NEWMAN I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering... LOUIS L'AMOUR I know teams had a hard time marking her. My worst nightmare would be if someone else had her. ERIC MILES NICHOLAS SPARKS I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as famili... ROSHANI CHOKSHI RICHARD MATHESON JOHN BURROUGHS MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ PAUL AUSTER LAINI TAYLOR I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supp... JANE ALEXANDER It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shak... LUCY DIAMOND
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If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
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