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Related I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca... KAY GRANGER If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... GUY FIERI I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing someth... LANA DEL REY I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or s... ADAM YAUCH I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think... BEAR BRYANT I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women ... FOXY BROWN There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I ... CLAIRE DANES I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything wort... GREG BOYLE When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, '... HALIMA ADEN My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought... ILYASAH SHABAZZ It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd lov... BETSY BRANDT There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I hav... JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going... JULIAN BOND I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'... LEAH REMINI I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry an... RACHAEL RAY I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even i... HELEN MIRREN I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t... RANDY TRAVIS I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was... CHARLIE ROSE I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe... JARED KUSHNER I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when y... MAGGIE CHEUNG I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't lig... EVE ARNOLD I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like ... CATHERINE DENEUVE I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I di... RADHANATH SWAMI I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect... THOMAS MUSTER My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was ... NATASHA LITTLE I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't ... SCARLETT JOHANSSON I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe. EUGENIE CLARK In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a p... BHARATI MUKHERJEE I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night... BOB WOODWARD When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work. SONIA RYKIEL I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometime... ELIZA COUPE Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn... BILL GOLDBERG And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again. SAMANTHA SMITH I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the contro... JEFF KINNEY There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a grea... ERIC TRUMP I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save ti... STACEY FARBER I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around reg... LULU When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be in... JACK PRELUTSKY My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, ... IMRE KERTESZ When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti... MICHAEL JACKSON I like Ryan Gosling from the inside. I think he's a beautiful person, and then if you didn't... ASHTON MOIO What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the l... ALANE FERGUSON I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave ... KATE GRENVILLE Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu... CANDICE BERGEN I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews ... EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice peo... TAJ MAHAL I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down a... ZAINAB SALBI I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno... BONNIE MCKEE I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these thing... BAHMAN GHOBADI Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'... STACY KEACH I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the peo... WAKA FLOCKA FLAME I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled. DAVID SPADE When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make y... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, th... ABIGAIL WASHBURN I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or... CHLOE SEVIGNY It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn&... LYNSEY ADDARIO I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able. CASS MCCOMBS I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable i... KATE BECKINSALE I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at... EVANDER HOLYFIELD If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am... CHRISTOPHER GUEST I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t... JOHN C. REILLY I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive di... HOWIE MANDEL I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. BEVERLY CLEARY 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 I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter... KALEY CUOCO When you have a big family, certainly with strong personalities, you feel like you have to fall into... ERIN FOSTER I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my... MACAULAY CULKIN I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to t... H. R. GIGER Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't,... ERIC D. THOMAS I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. JOHN LYDON In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get heal... DENIS MCDONOUGH I got into sports, thankfully, because I didn't listen to my mother. DAT NGUYEN As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn'... DREW GODDARD When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r... JULIA CHILD When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street... LARRY DAVID Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you'... RIAN JOHNSON For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks... SHERILYN FENN If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd h... GUY RITCHIE I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that exper... KEANU REEVES I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister&... CARYL CHURCHILL If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. ... DIANA RIGG I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and... EVAN DAUGHERTY If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and just... ABRAHAM MASLOW And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so... POPPY Z. BRITE Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place ... STEWART LEE In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13... TOM CAVANAGH You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy. IRENE DUNNE People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people ... MAJOR OWENS I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made ... BUDDY HACKETT I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of ve... DYLAN MORAN
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JULIA MICHAELS When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ... JULIA ROBERTS I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Pet... JULIA GILLARD When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But yo... JULIA MICHAELS Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. JULIA GLASS I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for... JULIA STILES From what far, heavenly height of hope
Didst thou descend to light our way,
Cleaving with flas... JULIA LARNED I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look ... JULIA ROBERTS We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear... JULIA STILES when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig... JULIA GREGSON Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done. JULIA WOODRUFF A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ... JULIA GLASS Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot. JULIA QUINN I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my li... JULIA QUINN She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put y... JULIA GREGSON It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party. JULIA FIERRO There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not ... JULIA QUINN I bought you something" Willows blurts out. "You bought...What?" Willow closes her eyes fo... JULIA HOBAN The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often th... JULIA KAVANAGH Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls. JULIA PHILLIPS I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes of... JULIA ROBERTS In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally ... JULIA CAMERON If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances. JULIA SOUL When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum JULIA CAMERON What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th... JULIA ROBERTS What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t... JULIA ROBERTS And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. JULIA QUINN If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly JULIA HOBAN