I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.
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JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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RICK RIORDAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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JUDE WATSON I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.
JILLIAN HERVEY Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
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GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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LUCY WALKER I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been do...
BARBARA COOK If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
DOUGLAS SIRK For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I...
SHANNEN DOHERTY I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game - you kno...
STEVEN ADAMS In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you g...
BRYAN FERRY Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she w...
PAUL MOONEY I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I'v...
FACUNDO PIERES I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d...
CHANNING TATUM I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
HANNAH STORM I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn...
BOBBY ORR I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I ...
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ELLEN BURSTYN I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
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DEIRDRE O'KANE I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean ...
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BETH GRANT Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo recor...
SAMMY HAGAR I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.
TAMER HASSAN I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I kne...
QUENTIN TARANTINO If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did ques...
BILLY HIGGINS I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real si...
NAT KING COLE I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas...
DAVE FINKEL If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
MITCH HEDBERG I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or...
CHLOE SEVIGNY I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days ...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
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ODETTE ANNABLE I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn...
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STERLING KNIGHT I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to...
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CHANDRA WILSON I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
JACK REYNOR I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' ...
ALBERT BROOKS I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
BRENDAN BEHAN Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'
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LORETTA LYNN When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Bey...
LIL MAMA People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I cou...
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CHESTER GOULD I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just bur...
MICHAEL FLATLEY I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
MORRISSEY I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't eve...
SHIRLEY MANSON I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a b...
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ISAIAH WASHINGTON I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so che...
KATE MOSS I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the T...
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ANDRE WARD I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.
KIM KARDASHIAN No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things we...
DAVID GEST I couldn't kill a fly.
VERA MILES It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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