Barbara Corcoran
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CAI GUO-QIANG If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin'... GREGORY HINES By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I did... ERIC FLINT I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up... D'ARCY CARDEN When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE JANET JACKSON I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money. DAVID A. SIEGEL BRITTANY HOWARD WILL FERRELL DANIEL CRAIG OLLY MURS KRISTEN STEWART I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted a... SONIA RYKIEL I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ... HANNAH WARE ROB MCCLURE KEVIN HART JULIUS ERVING WILLIE AAMES My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want... LINDA LAVIN PATRICK EWING I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ... JESSICA PARE SARAH MCLACHLAN In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU DANICA PATRICK I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY ABBY WAMBACH CORY BOOKER STELLA MCCARTNEY I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into... WENDI DENG MURDOCH All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to... JOHNNY MATHIS GUGU MBATHA-RAW MACAULAY CULKIN When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I di... NEIL TENNANT IAN SMITH When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ... SPENCER KAYDEN JAMES CORDEN SANDRA LEE I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where ... KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW JAMES FRANCO When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it b... FRANK MARSHALL When I was younger, I didn't want to come to WWE because I didn't fit into the mold. I could... BECKY LYNCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BEAR BRYANT J. COLE Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the bos... BUBBA WATSON LYDIA DAVIS I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or ... ADAM LAMBERT SUSANA MARTINEZ LINDA RONSTADT CAROLINA HERRERA J. COLE LYNN JOHNSTON I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em... BILL CALLAHAN SUMMER GLAU I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my... LACEY CHABERT AMY TAN SALLY FIELD I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. ... WILL POULTER I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I d... RACHEL KELLER I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels go... SAMIRA WILEY PATTI SMITH MARY J. BLIGE At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, be... PER PETTERSON I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and... RON SANTO LEA MICHELE KEITH STANFIELD THOMAS MCGUANE EVA GREEN I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best frie... PETER EISENMAN J. COLE My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention. ROGER DALTREY I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a perio... SHANTEL VANSANTEN For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because ... MELANIE LAURENT DEAN KAMEN RAYMOND CARVER DONALD JOHANSON It's something that I wanted to do, but I was real nervous and didn't do well. Seeing all the other ... LAURA NUNEZ PAUL AUSTER Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I ... JESSIE MUELLER My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I... DAVE ATTELL LAURYN HILL ELLEN DEGENERES PLATON There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me. MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE
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BRIAN CORCORAN Casey has been a great key for us. She came in this season and we thought maybe she'd make varsity a... BRIAN CORCORAN When you have 31 guys out for the team there's a lot of competition because everyone wants to be in ... BRIAN CORCORAN It's definitely a pride issue now. Nobody wants to be on the team that ends that streak. BRIAN CORCORAN Our season starts Saturday. Saturday gets the ball started for us. They all know how important (the ... BRIAN CORCORAN She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this seaso... BRIAN CORCORAN Tim had a real nice race for us today. If we can do that at the big meets, we will do very well. BRIAN CORCORAN The boys ran very well today. We're still working on our compression for our one through five runner... BRIAN CORCORAN We have six people who are trying to get into that relay and, if the girls don't toe the line, I am ... DANNY CORCORAN They didn't get the blunt end of it. TIM CORCORAN We've rebuilt the perimeter of the field and have been treating it with industrial grade detergent t... HOWARD CORCORAN We believe that 2006 will surpass 2005 in terms of overall revenues generated from health care adver... DANIEL CORCORAN I'm extremely intrigued by the ability of them to grow enough crops for 7 million people in the dese... DANIEL CORCORAN Miami-Dade fared a lot better than Broward and Palm Beach specifically because of the preponderance ... JOHN CORCORAN It will be something special and, obviously, having the fastest man in the world compete is a huge c... DANNY CORCORAN We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the ... JOHN CORCORAN They rearranged boxes, they changed titles, but the fact is, nothing has changed. LANCE CORCORAN The drum beat is not as loud and fast as it was two to three weeks ago. I think it's about time. I l... JOHN CORCORAN This is a view found to be widely held by the athletics community. DANNY CORCORAN I've spoken to both girls and they agreed it was not painting the sport in the right light. DANNY CORCORAN Certainly Greg still has a chance of competing in Melbourne and that's why selectors have the discre... DANNY CORCORAN What is really sad is he had an incredible opportunity to lead this department in a new direction, b... LANCE CORCORAN We couldn't do what we do without our sponsors. I can't say enough how important our sponsors play i... HOWARD CORCORAN We have one of the best playing fields in the country. So far this fall, the field was used 88 times... HOWARD CORCORAN They have almost totally revamped their football field, but the construction work around the high sc... HOWARD CORCORAN You can only do the best you can. We set the benchmark and everyone is trying to catch up with us. A... HOWARD CORCORAN We make kids the focal point. Our mission is the kids, the kids, the kids. Take care of the kids. HOWARD CORCORAN Super six, what is it? A state football championship done on a two-year bid cycle. All (West Virgini... HOWARD CORCORAN It has proven to be a great asset for the kids of Ohio County and Belmont County. HOWARD CORCORAN A guy knows he'll get out, and he doesn't really have to try and do anything to turn his life around... LANCE CORCORAN What is really sad is he had an incredible opportunity to lead this department in a new direction, b... LANCE CORCORAN They're used in every prison in California. LANCE CORCORAN We're all for reform. But you have to do it right. LANCE CORCORAN Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities... LANCE CORCORAN He got it in his system that he wanted to help people, and he would do it. If you needed anything, h... 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BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic. BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday. BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so... BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots... BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs... BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor. BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty... BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ... BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi... BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ... BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit... BARBARA SMITH BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni... BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook. BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t... BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c... BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ... BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de... BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to... BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron. BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is... BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad. BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ... BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr... BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books. BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus... BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f... BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ... BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ... BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho... BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL
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