Dave Eggers
Related I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a thea... LARS MIKKELSEN I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON LARRY BIRD GEORGE MICHAEL I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. BILLY SHERWOOD I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around. DAVE LOMBARDO ALISTAIR BROWNLEE MINDY KALING MOBY My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Some... BEN SILBERMANN I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that ... DANIELLE FISHEL KRISTIN CAVALLARI Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot t... JIM SULLIVAN I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wa... JAMES MCGREEVEY I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for th... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m... FRANCES BAY I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren&... DACRE MONTGOMERY Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about m... MONICA ALI PRINCE Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real ... ADAM RODRIGUEZ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tin... ED BEGLEY, JR. I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code com... RANDALL MUNROE I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time ... EDAN LEPUCKI PAULA CREAMER I spend quite a bit of time looking at ducks. I gaze around and spend a lot of time there. BRUCE DIVACCARO I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpo... FRED DURST CHRIS PARNELL My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are ... ISOBELLE CARMODY I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. PATRICIA POLACCO BOB WEIR This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate... JOHN SLADEK BAT FOR LASHES CUBA GOODING, JR. JUSTINE SKYE I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe... LAURA TROTT Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then f... REBECCA FERGUSON JAMES SALTER I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life. BOB GREENE I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was th... BRYAN GREENBERG MARLA GIBBS ZOSIA MAMET If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. SHERMAN ALEXIE I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN TODD RUNDGREN AARON RODGERS RITA DOVE CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think th... SADIE JONES HUNTER HAYES My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your chil... LAURIE GRAHAM I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I ... ALAN ZWEIBEL TOM LEHRER I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not t... TAMSIN EGERTON When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Bey... LIL MAMA I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' ... CHARLES M. BLOW I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m... TORY LANEZ My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I... MARK STRONG ALESSIA CARA I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I was... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD CHARLES KURALT LARRY WALL I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn&... PITBULL I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and ... NATASCHA MCELHONE When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS I think I lost my concentration a little bit, but I came back at the right time. It was a serious si... KATERINA KUDLACKOVA I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at runn... ROB RIGGLE Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star wh... ABRAHAM PAIS STEVIE WONDER ELON MUSK Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I ... PATRICK J. ADAMS I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too muc... TED SHACKELFORD MARY BALOGH TIM CAHILL Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't co... VIC FUENTES KIEFER SUTHERLAND There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we... JAMIE MUIR I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind. KIESZA BRETT FAVRE KERRY HEALEY NIECY NASH I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't rea... KELSEY GRAMMER CARMEN MIRANDA When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wa... BRETT CULLEN SIDNEY CROSBY PATRICK ROTHFUSS TED DEKKER LAURENCE FISHBURNE DAVID CASSIDY I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no dr... JEAN PIGOZZI I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em... NOLAN NORTH SUZE ORMAN MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hy... DAN O'BRIEN JESSICA ENNIS
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