Mae Jemison
Related To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at ... STAN LEE NAT TURNER When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple ... JILLIAN ROSE REED We had long discussions about this, because at the beginning I was a little bit reluctant, because I... FRANK MARSHALL When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little ... SKYLAR GREY When I started I never thought I would do another because it was too much work. SALLY ANDERSON I thought when we went up by three, that would be the turning point, that we were ready to go on a r... JEFF REIS When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies woul... ERIK PER SULLIVAN DAVID MACKAY IMRAN KHAN I thought nobody would be there. But the place was full, and there were a lot of entertainers -- I t... FREDDIE BELL LIZ SMITH DAVID MACKAY It was a little bit different since I had to get things started. Usually I have to maintain things w... ERICA WHITE RAINI RODRIGUEZ I thought that we probably had it wrapped up. I was pretty upset when we had to go into overtime. ..... JOSH MAYO When I started this trial, I thought we were going to try this case on science. I had no idea my cli... CHRISTOPHER SEEGER When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images tha... RAOUL PECK When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're ... VIVA BIANCA When we got that goal I thought we had a chance. Even with five minutes to go, I thought we were goi... DAN LABBATE I was able to go into the building in the '80s when it was all closed and boarded up. I thought it w... ANNIE BUNKER I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had ... CAPRICE BOURRET When I was little I thought, 'Wow, to meet Bill Gaither, that would be great,' ANTHONY BURGER MOLLY RINGWALD DAVID BOWIE When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I ... TAYLOUR PAIGE AL PACINO I thought it was really cool because you got to do all these probe things and it was kind of like an... AARON EDWARDS SIMON SINEK I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a l... RACHAEL LEIGH When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal.... AUDREY TAUTOU ERIC SCHMIDT ALICE COOPER Jumping the last, I thought I might stay on to be fourth. I knew we would get closer but I didn't th... RUBY WALSH We were hitting the ball hard, and Toledo was making the plays. Even when we were being no-hit, I th... PAUL MAINIERI We were feeling real good at halftime. I thought we had the edge. Finally, we were actually doing so... CALVIN CANNON CHRISTINA MILIAN BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN BRIAN BLESSED SUZI QUATRO When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a ... AL YANKOVIC CATHERINE BELL When I was fighting at a weekend, I would be in when my friends were out. I never had time to go out... LIAM SMITH LINDA MCMAHON ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I don't think I'll be alive when we go to Mars, but that's how far out some of these things are. SCOTT AKER TEDDY THOMPSON I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe... JARED KUSHNER When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to... CARICE VAN HOUTEN I thought there was a combination of reasons we were able to run the ball well. I think first of all... FRANK SOLICH STEVE MARTIN When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because ... FRIDA GIANNINI DAVID MACKAY A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books. DICK CAVETT I was pretty mad when it happened, because I had really improved my game. But it was a blessing now,... JACOB HAZOURI Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what ... LARRY RIVERS When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I though... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN EMANUEL STEWARD I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these rea... BEN SILBERMANN WARREN SPECTOR If I had, I would have tried to shift into another gear, but I don't think I had one. But I definite... CHAMP BAILEY I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perf... JAKE DELHOMME I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thou... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT PATTY JENKINS When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be ... ROSARIO DAWSON I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miam... CARMEN BUSQUETS I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, b... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I just thought it was an opportunity I needed to take advantage of. These things don't come up in ou... DAN FERRIGNO I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missi... VICTORIA AZARENKA LAURELL K. HAMILTON EVANGELINE LILLY BARBARA EHRENREICH I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ... BROOKE ADAMS ANI DIFRANCO At first glance I thought it wasn't fair that we were the second-place team and we only had one on t... JACK MCCRORY I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding becau... BODE MILLER 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 When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or loo... GEOFFREY BOYCOTT This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe... DEL MCCOURY We watched film all week, and their defense wasn't as good as I thought it would be. When we were wa... VICTOR ANDERSON I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going... ADAN CANTO I thought we had them a little on the ropes. I think we possibly could have had a heck of an upset. CURT STELLFOX JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Everything (we wanted) when we came into the game was there. I thought we had a great offensive game... BRUCE CLARK That was huge. When the whistle blew, I thought we were at least going to be shooting a free throw. CHRIS KUSNERICK I thought they played incredible basketball, given the fact that they had not had the opportunity to... JOANNE BRACKER JENA MALONE BILLIE JEAN KING IDINA MENZEL I was sick at the thought we were doing harm to patients. EDWARD SCOLNICK At first, I had to think about the venue, and where it was going to be at. I know the kid's mom and ... AARON BRINK I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thoug... DICK CAVETT I would look at San Diego as a really incredible anomaly. We never thought they were going to do thi... BRUCE REZNIK I was hoping we would do a little better job of maintaining the ball. It was a little more discourag... TONY BAUMAN I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impa... BILL SIMMONS My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ... ATTICUS SHAFFER I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be b... MERYL DAVIS WHOOPI GOLDBERG WHOOPI GOLDBERG
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VANESSA MAE I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but trainin... VANESSA MAE But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest t... VANESSA MAE All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person. VANESSA MAE But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult. VANESSA MAE Music is about the performance. VANESSA MAE Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. VANESSA MAE When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an... VANESSA MAE The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the m... VANESSA MAE For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in eith... VANESSA MAE I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to... VANESSA MAE People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself ... VANESSA MAE I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ... VANESSA MAE Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it... VANESSA MAE But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat a... VANESSA MAE In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. VANESSA MAE I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle. VANESSA MAE Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. VANESSA MAE MAE WEST MAE WEST MAE WEST MAE WEST Act because you love to act. MAE WHITMAN For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. MAE WHITMAN I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enou... MAE WHITMAN The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was ... MAE WHITMAN My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my ... MAE WHITMAN I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really... MAE WHITMAN It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things l... MAE WHITMAN I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i... MAE WHITMAN I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the... MAE WHITMAN Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing.... MAE WHITMAN I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredi... MAE WHITMAN I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pas... MAE WHITMAN There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th... MAE WHITMAN In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to... MAE WHITMAN People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are. MAE WHITMAN I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big b... MAE WHITMAN I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things. MAE WHITMAN You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am... MAE WHITMAN I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life. MAE WHITMAN I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think ab... MAE WHITMAN My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int... MAE WHITMAN The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. 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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would pre... 
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundarie... 
When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed. 
I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would g... 
I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled. 
When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dr... 
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. 
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... 
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great b... 
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul... 
I thought their guards played a lot better than I thought they could. I thought we would be able to ... 
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time. 
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted t... 
James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn&#... 
When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and... 
I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play ... 
I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of... 
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w... 
When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream ... 
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunit... 
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I j... 
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wan... 
I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another compa... 
I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing '... 
He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me "officer" or "detective." I let it go. If I r... 
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When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks now feel like little nudge... 
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. 
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you. 
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.