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I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.


Gabby Douglas

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GABBY DOUGLAS It's a pretty good movie. I had to see it because I wanted to find out where my name came from.
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrat...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories...
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GINNI ROMETTY Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to ev...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot cho...
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MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wa...
ALICE SEBOLD I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told lon...
KERRY GREENWOOD I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emoti...
GIN WIGMORE When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotion...
JERRY B. JENKINS I came back to pick up my glove and it was bleeding. I didn't tell anyone. I told my catcher.
MARK REDMAN The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them...
SARAH DESSEN I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged...
DENISE MINA I came to love, I came into my own.
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GARY ALLAN Of course I looked at memoirs and autobiographies, and I quickly realized that my thing was not goin...
AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background...
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JAN COMPTON It was tough but I tried to run easy. I have blisters from my shoes and I didn't sleep because of th...
HICHAM EL GUERROUJ I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my exi...
MISTY COPELAND I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cult...
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LAMAR ODOM That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne...
EMMA CLINE Every time I tell my story it is like a healing process because it gets easier and easier each time.
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CATHERINE ZETA-JONES There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated ...
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BUBBA SPARXXX The story of your life can be best told by you, prepare to tell it
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ALLAN RADEL Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
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GABBY DOUGLAS Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't Panic.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...
DOUGLAS ADAMS And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
DOUGLAS ADAMS The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which ar...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm...
DOUGLAS ADAMS After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what...
DOUGLAS ADAMS A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenpla...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS