If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
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Related Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my ... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON You made me feel worthwhile…. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually me... RANATA SUZUKI I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, w... A.J. STYLES It does open Pandora's Box a little bit. I've never seen anything like this, and I'm not sure I like... JEFF BURTON When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica... BARRY MCGUIRE It was tough to come out. I didn't want to come out. I felt like I had it going on. I guess (Karl) f... CARMELO ANTHONY At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out ... D.J. MACHALE I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I w... ABBY WAMBACH I felt like the first day of school or something. My heart was beating a little faster, my anticipat... CARLOS BOOZER I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled firs... BRESHA WEBB Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conse... DANA PERINO The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every ... KATHARINE CORNELL I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vi... JENNA DEWAN This one felt more like it was stretched out. I overstretched it a little bit. VLADIMIR GUERRERO When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be li... JILLIAN HERVEY Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most d... ELLIE GOULDING I watched a great player win his second Masters, and I felt like at least from tee to green, I was c... FRED COUPLES When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not beca... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I felt like I wasn't being a good mom, a good wife or a good employee. I felt like I wasn't good at ... CHRISTINE MAZIER I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their ra... KUMAIL NANJIANI Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein... HEATHER MORRIS I felt fine (Wednesday), ... I actually told (trainer John) Norwig, 'Don't count me out.' I felt lik... DESHEA TOWNSEND I have a huge voice, so it's a bit more like a Janis Joplin vibe than a younger rock vibe. And I thi... KELLY CLARKSON I remember when he was at my waist, then he got a little bit taller, then he grew like a weed. He wa... MIKE ALSTOTT I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s. KRISTIN HERSH The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt ... JAMES DURBIN I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat... SAMANTHA SHANNON When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s... TAVI GEVINSON I felt like there was something in my throat that wouldn't come out. WILLIS MCGAHEE When I hurt my back, I'd never felt anything like that before. Obviously, it was pretty scary. MARCO RIVERA I felt a knot in it. I felt like I was either getting ready to pull it or pulled it a little. If I h... DAVID WESLEY [DE John Abraham played 34 snaps Sunday, but said yesterday that he is not yet 100%.] I've got a lit... JOHN ABRAHAM I graduated high school, and I did my internship at Dove in their public relations department becaus... KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER We went up there and felt like we were the best team in the field. It's a little disappointing, but ... BUDDY ALEXANDER Actually I felt like I was back in Montreal because I hear that quite a bit there, too. CRAIG RIVET When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don... WILLIAM FICHTNER When my dad died, it was like everything felt really shaky, you know? And trying to be the best I co... SARAH DESSEN I know Frank personally I like Frank, ... I think it's beautiful. My girlfriend (Mimi Lalonde) was i... BILLY BROWN Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out... ELLIOTT CARTER I thought that was the worst half we've played. I don't know if it was, but it felt like it. We didn... JARED JORDAN When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own ... KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR When I was younger, I lived on Hawai'i, in the small town of Kohala. It was beautiful there! The... AULI'I CRAVALHO It felt tough, I felt like I finished strong. My goal was top ten and I was 11th, so I can't be too ... BLAKE RUSSELL You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. MARK TWAIN I've always written music the way I felt it. I write for the public because I feel like the public, ... HARRY WARREN I got into Mock Trial because I really wanted to be an attorney when I was younger. If anything, it ... SARAH LEWIS I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a... CORINNE BAILEY RAE I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenage... KIM GORDON When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.” �... NEAL SHUSTERMAN I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anyt... WILLA SIBERT CATHER It was worthwhile. I felt we got a lot of out it because we played against teams we've never seen be... DOUG HAYNES I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or b... CHARLIE PUTH When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, i... DICK BUTKUS When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, i... DICK BUTKUS People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was n... AZAR NAFISI I felt like it's my time to shine, I have to rip this. At that time, I felt that it was a life or de... EMINEM I didn't make this record to set the record straight or anything. I just wanted to put something out... LISA MARIE PRESLEY When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations... CHARLI XCX When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god. MAUREEN O'HARA When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha... HEIDI KLUM I really felt like these opportunities weren't there at the graduate student level. I felt like we w... LELA JACOBSOHN I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like... NAIMA ADEDAPO Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn'... ROBERT SMITH If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I... WALTER BECKER When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. MARK TWAIN I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after... BILLY JOEL I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt someth... CAROL BURNETT When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know... CAROLE KING I felt like the family was blaming me, also, and, I mean, I know it's not my fault, and I didn't ask... SAMANTHA RIVERA Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i... ARIEL PINK My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at... BOBBY MOYNIHAN If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, i... JONATHAN EDWARDS I like coffee in the morning and decaf green tea throughout the day... When I was younger and modeli... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I love... ELIZABETH WURTZEL What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I proba... J.D. SALINGER I was probably pretty frustrating to work with, because if I ever did anything wrong, I would just s... SHANNON MILLER I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of my... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It... ALLEN JOHNSON I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor... MAC DEMARCO There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't ... KAREN ELSON Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging... CASSANDRA CLARE Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accompli... A.J. STYLES It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
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JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there ". I don't know where there is... JOHN GREEN Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. JOHN GREEN When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t... JOHN GREEN What a slut time is. She screws everybody. JOHN GREEN The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. JOHN GREEN Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than... JOHN GREEN You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I... JOHN GREEN Some people have lives; some people have music. JOHN GREEN You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. JOHN GREEN As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, ... 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JOHN GREEN That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pret... JOHN GREEN The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w... JOHN GREEN Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. JOHN GREEN Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.... JOHN GREEN Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. JOHN GREEN You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. JOHN GREEN We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska t... JOHN GREEN Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am ... JOHN GREEN The marks humans leave are too often scars. JOHN GREEN As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. JOHN GREEN Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha... JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, i... JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to den... JOHN GREEN I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, ok... JOHN GREEN You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All effo... JOHN GREEN That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in t... JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con... 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