John Niven
Related My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn... SAM DONALDSON My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON MAHERSHALA ALI It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH MARSHALL MCLUHAN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX SUGAR RAY LEONARD I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn... CHERYL TIEGS I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me... LAURA HILLENBRAND AKHIL SHARMA It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't... ANGUS KING I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living ... BRUCE COCKBURN RIDLEY SCOTT OMAR SHARIF I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ... ELIZABETH PENA If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life. ELIE SAAB DOROTHY ALLISON EDITH WIDDER WINONA RYDER SALLY FIELD I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care tod... DAVID AXELROD I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. ... DANIEL BOULUD Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER LINDSEY VONN JAMES HETFIELD By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost t... JANE GREEN DAVID BOWIE I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single eve... EDGAR WINTER BEN SCHNETZER If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I ... CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN SHAUN TAN BILL GOLDBERG JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou... LAURA WADE My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum... MAMIE GUMMER You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. MARK PAGEL BABYFACE B. B. KING NATASHA TRETHEWEY If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I w... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. ALLEN IVERSON IRVINE WELSH MACAULAY CULKIN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN MICHAEL MORITZ CHRISTINE KEELER PAUL WALKER What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor... CYNTHIA ERIVO QUEEN LATIFAH AISHA TYLER I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It'... GARETH GATES If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write ... KARAN MAHAJAN SANDRA LEE Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that&#... JOSHUA FERRIS If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti... GARY SPEED DOLLY PARTON ALAN BENNETT I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue ... OONA CHAPLIN JEFF BUCKLEY ANDREA BOCELLI I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn&#... BRUCE COCKBURN ELIE WIESEL TAMARA MELLON RALPH NADER I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gav... JIMMY SMITS MIRANDA HART CASS MCCOMBS SEBASTIAN FAULKS NAT WOLFF Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I ... J. R. SMITH I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS GEORGE HARRISON ADAM SCOTT GEORGE TAKEI I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already k... PETER WRIGHT I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimate... DWIGHT HENRY MADONNA CICCONE I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a... BILLY WILLIAMS CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI LANCE GROSS I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Socia... PAT TOOMEY REBA MCENTIRE If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of playe... MICHAEL OWEN KHLOE KARDASHIAN GEORGE MICHAEL Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters... DAN DECARLO JAMES PATTERSON I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn... KIESZA There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-th... CELIA IMRIE ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH JESS GLYNNE FRANK ROBINSON I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had ha... CELIA JOHNSON
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it. 
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made ... 
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... 
'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monst... 
This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact t... 
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision tha... 
I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre... 
I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would'v... 
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. T... 
Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, ... 
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe... 
I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums,... 
I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I th... 
My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th... 
I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... 
I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don... 
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b... 
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ... 
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... 
I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst par... 
I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Po... 
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
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I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let ... 
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A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so c... 
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu... 
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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heav... 
There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to th... 
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. 
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I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music i... 
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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industr... 
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. 
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