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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u...
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LARENZ TATE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
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You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... AMY TAN
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN 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 was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, ...
CAITRIONA BALFE Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I... BRAD PITT From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrat...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says:...
DIRK NOWITZKI I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ...
ELIZABETH PENA
My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of ... BRAD THOR
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't kno... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ...
ALAN JACKSON
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA
I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I... RALPH LAUREN
I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol&... NICKI MINAJ
When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told... NATE ROBINSON
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite. ACE FREHLEY
I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to... KATE WINSLET
'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi... SPIKE LEE I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come fro...
MEGYN KELLY
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and... PAULA DANZIGER
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 Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers... ALAN BALL
I didn't know what was going through my mind. GABRIELA SABATINI
Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't ha... ERIC STOLTZ I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of...
DAN FARMER
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily... EDGAR WRIGHT I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In m...
NATSUO KIRINO Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be su... BONNIE RAITT
Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bu... KATEE SACKHOFF I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em...
BILL CALLAHAN
I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented dir... SONAM KAPOOR
I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... SUMMER GLAU I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entert...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entert... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof... TOM WATSON
My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, t... LOUIS C. K. I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO
In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin... HARLAND WILLIAMS
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that m... DOLLY PARTON
I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. ... ERIC DAVIS If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&...
CARLENE CARTER
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a... PAULO COELHO I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed beca...
ETHAN PECK
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 I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... KARIN SLAUGHTER
Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... KARIN SLAUGHTER My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally...
CARA CASTRONUOVA As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were g...
SYLVIA ROBINSON
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know h... JACK NICKLAUS
It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through tha... GARY WRIGHT 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ...
BARRY MANILOW My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfri...
ELIZABETH WARREN I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough... MONICA LEWINSKY What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people wou...
JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte... BARBARA CORCORAN Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say wh...
WITHERED HAND I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ...
JESSICA PARE
I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were makin... ALEXA VEGA My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.
CAROLE KING
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one w... NADIA COMANECI I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types...
STEPHEN MANGAN 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
My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward i... ROBERT PATTINSON 'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It&#...
ADRIANO GIANNINI
I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac... HUGH LAURIE
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When ... MICHAEL BUBLE Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I w...
CAROLE BOUQUET When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I wa...
KENNY CHESNEY 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a speci...
CARLTON CUSE
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... ANTHONY HOPKINS
When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. EMINEM I walked out of... was it 'Stardust?' That thing with the witches? I was so looking forward ...
SHARLTO COPLEY In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ...
SPENCER KAYDEN I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the contro...
JEFF KINNEY
