Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
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Related Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-ma... LYNDON JOHNSON About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. TIM LAHAYE In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis... DIANA WYNNE JONES I had inquired about it a couple of years ago, but it didn't exist at that point. JIM DOOLEY I did a series in Britain years ago called 'Skins,' and I remember my little sister telling ... BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it... OLLY MURS A few years ago we had the chance to sponsor an Indy car, and this homeboy thought that was about th... FORREST LUCAS I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television i... NICK CAVE When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted... JAMES CROMWELL I fought for the European title a couple of years ago and maybe this title shot should've come befor... GRAHAM WALKER I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile. TYLER KNOTT GREGSON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an u... DAVID GUTERSON My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was ... DEAN KAMEN I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to d... DARREN SHAN You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway. RICKY GERVAIS I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with... ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still ha... LIZ THEBART I think the secret to the guy was that he was very simple, not stupid, but not a genius, and he ende... KEN STRINGFELLOW I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis... MIKE SHINODA In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabular... ETHAN CANIN Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people abou... EDDIE TRUNK I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I... PATRICIA C. WREDE For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE I retired about five years ago. I was working at the Riviera and decided I had had enough. FREDDIE BELL Maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration -- I don't remember the exact number. But I had days wh... WES MILLER The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding scho... TUCKER CARLSON Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. DAVID HERBERT DONALD I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri... SAUL DAVID About eight to 10 years ago they got a bad rap, and in my opinion deservedly so. JOEL BERNSTEIN About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that ... DAN HICKS The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had ... WILLIE NELSON In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps di... JIM WOODRING When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an Englis... AASIF MANDVI Once we got that 10-point lead, I thought we'd be OK. Kelsey and Mallory just play so well together. DICK PEECHER Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin... ROGER PENROSE Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I ... KAZUO ISHIGURO I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went t... LAURA SAN GIACOMO I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record woul... CHARLIE WORSHAM Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! DREW BARRYMORE New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire HENRY JAMES One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heig... MARY GAITSKILL You could do it either way you want to do it, ... I could have 20 and Tiger could have 13. I mean, I... JACK NICKLAUS Florida has a fairly convoluted tax structure. KURT WENNER I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the... SETH GREEN I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have d... CONNIE ALLEN I should write a thank-you note to Andre. I got the call about 10 p.m. on Sunday. TRAVIS RETTENMAIER I know one fisherman, about a week ago, he said he thought it was an alligator. JOSE GUTIERREZ I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I... DUSTIN HOFFMAN I just thought if I could get it, I could get a break at least once in my life, ... That was kind of... JOHN DUGAN When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international le... SASKIA DE BRAUW I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... BRIAN JACQUES Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night. LARRY WILMORE When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say abo... ADAM SANDLER I sent an e-mail out to the National Honor Society ? and there are about 175 of us at Langley ? and ... JULIA LANZARA I'm here, I think, under kind of false pretenses, and I think I have to become straight with you. Te... ROBERT ALTMAN I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weeke... THEO JAMES About four or five years and 10 or 20 pounds ago I could probably show these young guys a thing or t... DAIMON SHELTON I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me... LEONARD COHEN About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t... DAN HICKS When I was a poor and struggling writer, I made a vow that if ever I got lucky enough to write full-... EVAN HUNTER I guess it was about 10 or 11 years ago I was looking at a Golf Digest and they had the rankings for... BILL HENSLEY Joe Paterno, to me, is maybe the greatest coach ever in my opinion. I mean that truly, and I said th... BOBBY BOWDEN A wise man once told me: an overnight success takes 10 years. I might not have 10 Years; I may have ... SCOTTIE SOMERS What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ... LUANNE RICE I wanted to call her a bitch. I almost did. But I couldn't get the word out. I started wondering whe... KATE HATTEMER I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtr... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Once -- many, many years ago -- I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I h... JOHN FOSTER DULLES Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had... JOHN FOSTER DULLES And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actuall... GINNI ROMETTY Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. LISA MORTON In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pre... NORTHROP FRYE I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and... MADS MIKKELSEN I got a phone call late in the summer, thought about it and I decided to do it. I had some doubts ab... DAVID MONROE Three years ago I had a vision about doing a film that talked about entertainment in Hong Kong - I s... ANDREW LIN At about 1 p.m., I got a call and they told me my item was up next. The price was at $2,000 before y... KAREN SHEMONSKY I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol... JUSTIN BIEBER I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convolut... A. WHITNEY BROWN It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish an... NEAL ASHER I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when ... TODD PHILLIPS I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is ... JOAN LUNDEN Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now t... JOHN WESLEY Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now th... JOHN WESLEY You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sar... CANDACE BUSHNELL I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked a... ADAM RICKITT Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part ... R.J. ANDERSON We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am e... CAROLYN WARNER I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the pr... URI GELLER At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master'... JOSEPH KANON My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years ... DOLLY PARTON I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent... BEN CASNOCHA Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
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DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel, DEBORAH ABBOTT My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out sm... DEBORAH LEVY In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell... DEBORAH TANNEN I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di... DEBORAH COX I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous ... DEBORAH SAMPSON One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and ... DEBORAH MOGGACH If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if... DEBORAH TANNEN The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally. DEBORAH DAY The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -... DEBORAH TANNEN I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up ... DEBORAH RANEY The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as m... DEBORAH NORVILLE A government that operates under the guise of capitalism does not necessarily mean it is free of the... DEBORAH SIMPSON Ninety percent of board members said they were there to make a difference in the organization. DEBORAH HECHINGER Accessories in general add warmth to a room, but you can switch out your accessories to showcase onl... DEBORAH CARPENTER In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treati... DEBORAH TALL We always see a few orders for wedding invitations with wedding dates around college graduation time... DEBORAH GOMIA My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than thr... DEBORAH SAMPSON U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria a... DEBORAH WHITE I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist,... DEBORAH COX 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, i... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very quick place to come in. I'm not going on 21 at lunchtime for anything unless it's a dire... DEBORAH DURHAM They said the wreath is still on the door. DEBORAH ROBERTS In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most ferven... DEBORAH SAMPSON The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it. DEBORAH COX Risk initiatives require active cooperation among the business line heads who will ultimately benefi... DEBORAH WILLIAMS It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these ... DEBORAH COX Wisdom is not attained by the journey through life's circumstances and lessons learned, but rather, ... DEBORAH SIMPSON The truth is, it's never about what someone does for you, but rather, what you've done for someone e... DEBORAH SIMPSON The seeds of time are the precious elements that define who we are and carve the path of our future. DEBORAH SIMPSON Spiritualism is not about bending to religious ideology, it is about leading from the spirit. DEBORAH SIMPSON If love needs to be chased, then the chasing isn't worth your love. DEBORAH SIMPSON If you close your eyes sometimes your vision becomes clearer as it is not clouded by pictures. DEBORAH SIMPSON If today is yesterday' s promise, tomorrow certainly holds miraculous wonders. DEBORAH SIMPSON Following the direction of the wind is not necessarily the right direction. Sometimes, walking again... DEBORAH SIMPSON Fear of rejection is a faith in failure DEBORAH SIMPSON A shallow faith is debilitating, even if it fits into your ideals. DEBORAH SIMPSON There comes a time in every man's life when courage is no longer defined by the chances he takes, bu... DEBORAH SIMPSON Boldness often attracts adversity, and the louder the conviction, the more shrilling the opposition.... DEBORAH SIMPSON If the American people do not believe that what they collectively established in the White House is ... DEBORAH SIMPSON We are all artists, painting new canvases every day. Be sure today's picture is what you truly want ... DEBORAH SIMPSON