Nick Hornby
Related I think most people that have been involved in athletics would point somewhere down the line to some... DEWEY MITCHELL BERNARD CORNWELL I just felt like going out there a little more motivated to get the win. It was a little extra for m... ANTONIO MCDYESS When I finished Westlife, we had - Louie Walsh is still managing me - I was lucky to have options fr... SHANE FILAN So I guess I wonder, where is the line separating me into this culture or that culture, saying I hav... EOWYN IVEY I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many ... KENNY CHESNEY I think we all felt like there were a lot of people who did more than we did. I am the logistics coo... BILL LEGGETT I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless an... CARL SUTTON It went well. I felt great -- no pain, no tightness, no discomfort whatsoever. As far as pitching is... BRANDON BACKE 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 that it was a sham, one of the most cowardly exercises I've ever watched. I believe there wer... MIKE MOHLER Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he h... CASEY KOTCHMAN SARAH J. MAAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a... IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a... JACK JONES HARUKI MURAKAMI BABE RUTH And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lif... BRIAN LUMLEY This is no real surprise -- had been groomed to take over the job. What is more interesting is why C... COLIN MORTON It was different than I have been led to believe. I felt like I was in Arizona. The bus rides weren'... JOE MADDON CHARLES BUKOWSKI People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been ... WARREN GILES ALICE HOFFMAN I felt something happen to the car the lap before; it felt like the car didn't have a sway bar. The ... JOEY LOGANO BABE RUTH 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 felt like it was my time to go, even though I was extremely upset that I had lost this opportunity... JULIE LELAND I was a good kid, I think. Maybe a bit cheeky. I only turned bad as I grew older! No, just kidding, ... JANSEN SPENCER CHARLES BUKOWSKI SOPHIA BUSH But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told hi... JOHN BOYNE THOMAS HOWARD I felt I had plenty of room when I started up in there. Just about the eighth pole, the outside hors... GARRETT GOMEZ I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ... TAMALA JONES GAIL CARSON LEVINE BARBARA JOHNSON I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering... LOUIS L'AMOUR It was so exciting. I have never had that many people come to watch me. It gave me a lot to feed off... KRISTINA BASKETT I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt inte... PORTIA DE ROSSI I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've ne... ROBERT CRAIS There are no sales going on; it's more of a display store. I was not there as much as I would have l... BARB BARTLEY I was certainly too watchful and negative. Thirty balls for four runs for me is not right. I should ... ADAM GILCHRIST I noticed there was no mortgage brokerage in Walnut Cove. Most of the other areas have been saturate... DAVID CHANEY TONY HAWK There are a lot more people less fortunate than me, but it's been tough. No one told me something li... JAMMAL BROWN I was on a nostalgia trip for that one. I was in a really happy kind of space. That one just felt li... CHLOE DAY PATTI SMITH MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Coach (Greg Williams) has been telling me that I have to be more aggressive. That was the time to do... KADIE RIVERIN I have long known about madmen and kings; I have long known about feeling real. I have long been luc... MAGGIE NELSON JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER PETER DINKLAGE You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav... BARBARA O'CONNOR KATHERINE DUNHAM TANA FRENCH The people that come up to me about 'Bottle Rocket' tend to be my favorite maybe because that was ou... OWEN WILSON SARAH DESSEN It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Ol... JARED BROCK I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my c... RIVER VIIPERI Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just dif... SOL LUCKMAN I was able to retire at age 48 because I sang in a church choir. It was there that I learned the imp... BOBBY W. MILLER I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects... DANIEL BRYAN KURT COBAIN I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though m... LYDIA LEONARD AMANDA CRAIG JOHAN CRUYFF I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this hono... GERONIMO TOM REISS W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM LARRY THE CABLE GUY Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved f... LUPITA NYONG'O BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON MIRANDA JULY I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop... ETGAR KERET A kid of immigrants becomes a governor and runs for president. A true American story, ... I'm just a... MICHAEL DUKAKIS That night caught me by surprise, but I just want to credit all the players and assistant coaches I'... CINDI SIMMONS I have fewer friends than people say, and more than I had hoped, ... I am very fortunate. CARLOS SALINAS KEVIN MCCLOUD LIZA MINNELLI JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed.... EMMA FORREST SARAH DESSEN We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I kn... BOBBY WALLACE That was the best part of the game for me. That took so much off my shoulders. It just felt good whe... CHADD MOORE
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