I've backed off cliffs all of my career. The best things I've done I've backed into. I never understood what I was getting into, I never started out to be a political cartoonist. There wasn't this kind of cartoonist when I started. I wanted to do traditional strips in the newspapers and backed into what I did then and backed into writing plays and backed into children's books. And what I'll back into next, I don't know, but I'll be looking forward to going backward.
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Related I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses,... SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY We're not being elusive, ... I think we have to wait until we're absolutely backed into a corner. MIKE PIAZZA Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywher... BECCA FITZPATRICK It's always lucky. It was a wedge of 111 yards. I hit it 112 and it backed into the hole. You intend... COLIN MONTGOMERIE I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to sc... SUSAN MINOT Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. “I’m sorry, Yelena. I was backed ... MARIA V. SNYDER The roads have reopened, but traffic is backed up to Virginia on the Inner Loop and on the Outer Loo... JOHN MCDONOUGH There is a deep sense of pessimism and anger that may burst into the open and become violent without... ELDRED MASUNUNGURE With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically. DANIEL JOHNS I should have backed off, CARLOS ROGERS Terry backed up and did a swan dive into the water and was swimming after the fish and the rod. It's... CURT GOWDY I think we backed down from them. They became the aggressor at that point, and instead of us respond... ANDREW BOOTH firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any ERIN HUNTER I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a trem... WILL ARNETT The tug of the lodestar slowly grew stronger until, with an abrupt quantum jump, it was a physical f... PAUL MCAULEY The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money,... DAVID SZE It felt like somebody with a delivery type of vehicle had backed into our building. JEFFREY MCGOWN I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate. OLYMPIA SNOWE I saw the van chasing one particular cow, striking it in the back. The cow fell. He backed off, and ... MAYA ESTUANI I was surprised because he wasn't trying to block my shot. Every time I went at him, he backed off a... CASEY MOORE I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea... CHAD LINDBERG At the first corner everybody was going four abreast so I backed off a little, JACQUES VILLENEUVE I called my wife and had her bring my pistol down, then I backed up to where they couldn't get out. MARK SMITH The beginning of the game backed us into a corner. UD got us into bad field position and then built ... CARROLL MCCRAY I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black... HUEY NEWTON When I backed up, I saw smoke and fire. So I called dispatch to report it. DEBORAH JOHNSON Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow. KATHERINE DIVOLIS I was never 100 percent, so I just took the year off. I'm glad I did, and I'm glad the organization ... BOSS BAILEY I needed to witness what it looked like when you eventually stopped asking questions and just starte... HANNAH BRENCHER I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard ... EARL CAMPBELL The latch to the pen was up, but the door was closed, which was strange. Then, a couple of doors dow... AMY NORMAN Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN I knew what I was getting myself into before I started this. I knew it was going to be fierce compet... SHANI DAVIS I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twent... MAGGIE CHEUNG A few years ago, I had a bunch, but when 9/11 happened, a lot of companies who were willing to throw... ANTHONY FURLONG Bravery is going into something that you know may not be good, but Courage my friends is going into ... RAYMOND B. BRISTOW I know it's backed up because some of the help came in late. DON BURNS Maia pulled on a braid. "I ran into Eric of all people. He told me what happened and that you'd back... CASSANDRA CLARE I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditi... BILLY PORTER It was blind and stupid. I had no frame of reference to know what I was getting into. I'd never even... MARSHALL ALLMAN The Senior Bowl backed off of him, which I thought was totally uncalled for; there was no reason for... GARY WICHARD I pitched pretty good, but I know I can pitch better. But my defense backed me up a lot. JENNIFER MARTIN (Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he st... BILLY COX I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not... AMY COLLINS I feel like everybody played well. Everybody stepped up. Nobody backed down. That's what I like abou... CASSIE WILLARD I saw glass on the floor. I took a couple of steps, and that's when I saw the baseball bat. I saw so... JAN COOK Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we h... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You never know what you're going to run into. You might be looking into fishing lures one minute, th... JEFF WARWICK I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When ... NIGEL REES She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it ? this was what I was going to d... JUDITH ROSSNER There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed anoth... MITT ROMNEY I was fortunate growing up on the farm. My parents were very understanding and backed me up all the ... KRIS WALTER It was one of those moments where I knew we were not having the conversation that we needed to be ha... JODI PICOULT This past year I had an opportunity to sit on the sideline and reflect on where I was in my life and... GERRY HUNSICKER I just dove into the Scriptures and started memorizing different scriptures and started becoming as ... TIM SCOTT We've backed ourselves into a very dangerous situation. The economy is dependent on everyone consumi... DEAN BAKER We backed off a little bit, pitch-count wise. I anticipate he'll be ready to be Randy Johnson on Mon... JOE TORRE That was nice. We had a couple of chances early but we weren't able to get it. But we never backed o... RUSS DAVIS We started backed up, and you call plays a little different. You run plays a little different. But t... BOBBY ENGRAM Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out w... ART LINKLETTER It was bad. From what I could gather, they were backed up almost to the Missouri line. That?s quite ... BUTCH MARTIN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of ... TOM WALSH In previous games we've kind of backed down and that led to our slump. Tonight we never gave up. MEGAN SPARKS I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commer... MACKENZIE FOY You know me, I've handled the toughest cases and never backed down from anything. KATHRYN FLICKER Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk... ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi... ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours... JON KRAKAUER I hit those corners very good, but for the King to go by me, there had to be rubber there. I went do... DANNY LASOSKI I always think you can do better, ... and I'm looking forward to in my next four years increasing th... BETSY GOTBAUM The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI sa... JAAN TALLINN When the techs in the States went, the Canadians backed off as well. The whole falloff late in the d... JOSEF SCHACHTER I was painted into a corner. I was completely lost -- I didn't know what I was going to do. I wanted... JULIE POWELL Once it was determined that she had a majority of support, we all backed the decision. I think the c... JOE OWENS It was a little bit different since I had to get things started. Usually I have to maintain things w... ERICA WHITE When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ... JEFF KINNEY To be voted into the Hall of Fame would be the crown jewel of my career. When I look back at what I ... WARREN MOON He backed out of the fight. I'm here. I showed up. He didn't want to fight me. AARON BRINK I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how ... BRENDAN I. KOERNER No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't u... ANDREA JUNG I could have pitched better, but the team backed me up and we got the win. EDWIN JACKSON If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way. DALE ARMSTRONG There were points in the race I thought I had it. But you never know how the other people are going ... BECKIE SCOTT It felt good once we got back into it and we started playing better defense and getting in to what w... CORY JACOBS One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go i... DEYTH BANGER I've been told That it's not enough to Wish for dreams, that I Have to work them JORDAN HOECHLIN I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed ... LADAINIAN TOMLINSON I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. UNKNOWN I thought it was kind of silly when we started looking into it. ALAN BECK It was real fun. I was more out of shape than I thought I was. The first half I started out bad. But... LADERRICK SATTERWHITE I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never... MIRANDA OTTO When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started... MATT MULLENWEG I thought that was normal. I thought you were born knowing what you wanted to do, ... So I couldn't ... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA We were pretty much face-to-face. I thought, 'Here it comes. She's going to chew on me.' But she bac... GARY PATERNA If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want... BIPASHA BASU In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legi... TA-NEHISI COATES Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri... AMANDA SEYFRIED I think we need to see what the breakdown is, ... Have people backed off a bit from reporting [sexua... CAROLYN BENNETT
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