Lata Mangeshkar quote: "When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere."

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I...
JANE BIRKIN

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
TOM WAITS

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TONY JUDT

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ...
ELLEN BURSTYN

There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel...
VERONICA CARTWRIGHT

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trai...
O. WINSTON LINK

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were...
CHELSEA HANDLER

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I sto...
ETHEL MERMAN

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached ...
KELLAN LUTZ

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work....
ELAINE PAIGE

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presen...
KATE BOSWORTH

Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
NASTIA LIUKIN

'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a s...
KEVIN BACON

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind....
BILL MEDLEY

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'...
FAITH FORD

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from...
UTAH PHILLIPS

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn'...
CAROLINA HERRERA

When I started I never thought I would do another because it was too much work.
SALLY ANDERSON

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask ...
MARK WAHLBERG

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an...
PAUL MCCARTNEY

I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have ...
CASEY NEISTAT

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

I think my day started at 2 a.m. when I heard the wind blowing, along with everybody else. All of my...
JEFF SLUMAN

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doi...
PHIL EVERLY

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't...
EDMUND WHITE

I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days ...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I coul...
BUBBA SPARXXX

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ODETTE ANNABLE

When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goo...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let my...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

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RAFAEL NADAL

I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I&...
MALAIKA ARORA KHAN

I made sure I was always in the splits when they happened but when I was in them I wasn't doing too ...
MATT GOSS

Al Jolson was my first husband. He always used to boast that he was spoiling me for any man who migh...
RUBY KEELER

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was...
NEIL STRAUSS

I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by...
CHARLI XCX

All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET

When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change f...
BLAKE LIVELY

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.
SELENA GOMEZ

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'...
EDDIE MARSAN

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EMO PHILIPS

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started co...
JOHN HARRISON

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu...
HUNTER HAYES

George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,&#...
CAMILA ALVES

I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be do...
KARIN SLAUGHTER

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 look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys....
KEVIN GATES

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. ...
IMANI HAKIM

Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. an...
SUZANNE FINNAMORE

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LARRY THE CABLE GUY

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MAEVE BINCHY

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KEVYN AUCOIN

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
JAMIE BAMBER

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JOHN LENNON

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DEREK CIANFRANCE

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TILDA SWINTON

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'...
MARILYN MONROE

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I wou...
LINDA MCCARTNEY

When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffe...
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. ...
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I could...
DAK PRESCOTT

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doi...
CANDIS CAYNE

I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
KARLA SOUZA

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not...
YURI LOWENTHAL

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
AHMET ZAPPA

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was...
LUCAS TILL

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch...
MANU BENNETT

I try not to be too invasive into my personal life. When I was younger, I used to tweet a lot, every...
KENDALL JENNER

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I s...
ZELJKO IVANEK

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by ju...
LIYA KEBEDE

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was ar...
AMY CHUA

I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and Engli...
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independe...
DARREN ARONOFSKY

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ANGELINA JOLIE

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DREW GODDARD

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LISA MARIE PRESLEY

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RACHAEL TAYLOR

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove...
RUBY ROSE

They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hi...
FREDDIE FREEMAN

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DUKE JOHNSON

People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. I...
ALESSIA CARA

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BROCK LESNAR

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SONG HYE-KYO

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SHARLTO COPLEY

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose...
PETE TOWNSHEND

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, i...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD

I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home...
SONJA SOHN

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JUSTINA MACHADO

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of any...
CLAUDETTE COLBERT

I was totally shocked when I didn't see him out there. I really didn't realize it till we started do...
ANTHONY HARGROVE

When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

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