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I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obvious...
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What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my ...
AARON PAUL![]()
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TYGA I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever...
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I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to...
SAMMY CAHN![]()
I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
FRED KOREMATSU What I'm experiencing right now is relief. When I read Rob [Bowman]'s liner notes, I felt, 'He's say...
BETTYE LAVETTE![]()
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people...
DON MCLEAN I was in so much pain. I had no idea what was happening to me. I was scared and fearful. Then a nurs...
LARRY DOSSEY![]()
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment wh...
GERARD WAY![]()
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment wh...
GERARD WAY Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I![]()
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just kn...
CHINUA ACHEBE All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ...
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no id...
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
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The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he...
CHARLIE PUTH I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside ...
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I felt I was accurate with the last pass to Fergie. I had what I wanted and I felt like when I threw...
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When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visi...
ROBERT WILSON I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being wit...
QANDEEL BALOCH I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had a...
EVAN GLODELL Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a...
LAURIE MCLEOD![]()
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit...
ACE FREHLEY It was just everything about him. What he wanted in life was the same for me ... It's hard to explai...
JODI DIAS![]()
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I r...
EZRA MILLER![]()
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 After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from L...
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I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know w...
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If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
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DANNY AIELLO When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I c...
D. A. PENNEBAKER I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in...
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When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that...
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SUE MILLER I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th...
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Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one...
JULIE ANNE PETERS![]()
Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one...
JULIE ANNE PETERS![]()
You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
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I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been some...
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TIM HOWARD I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B Really began realizing how precious life was, how short the clock was, he had not done what he wante...
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to b...
LEONARD COHEN![]()
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LINDSEY STIRLING I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll ...
CARA BUONO When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find...
TIKA SUMPTER when i was a little kid i loved to play in the snow when i moved to texas i was devastated that i ha...
DALLY SALAD![]()
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after...
STEVEN WRIGHT![]()
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j...
KELSEA BALLERINI I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun'...
CASEY NICHOLAW I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was ab...
AKSEL HENNIE I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'...
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How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I w...
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When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k...
TOM HOLLAND There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication...
MICHAEL MANN![]()
'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't le...
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I was baptized in the eighth grade, but I didn't really understand what it meant. Then it was in col...
BARRY SANDERS![]()
I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I wanted to bawl my eyes out. I was terrified. I felt like I had no idea what I was getting myself i...
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, bu...
KALEY CUOCO 'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and i...
NIKKI REED![]()
I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote the...
J. D. SOUTHER My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was ...
CORBIN BERNSEN![]()
I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN![]()
Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deform...
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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca...
BILLY CRYSTAL One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for...
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Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sw...
ERIC MCCORMACK I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routi...
JASON WILES I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling ...
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When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade...
BILL COSBY![]()
I had no interests. I had no interests in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At leas...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was d...
EDWARD FURLONG I had a pretty cool life. I met my wife when I was 18, and we're still totally in love. I was in a s...
GLEN PHILLIPS
DICKEY BETTS
I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obvious... KINA GRANNIS
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my ... AARON PAUL
I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to ... TYGA I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever...
JAMES MCGREEVEY I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to... SAMMY CAHN
I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. FRED KOREMATSU What I'm experiencing right now is relief. When I read Rob [Bowman]'s liner notes, I felt, 'He's say...
BETTYE LAVETTE
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people... DON MCLEAN I was in so much pain. I had no idea what was happening to me. I was scared and fearful. Then a nurs...
LARRY DOSSEY
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment wh... GERARD WAY
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment wh... GERARD WAY Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just kn... CHINUA ACHEBE All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ...
SANELA RAMIC JURICH
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no id... CYNTHIA VOIGT
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I... OCTAVIA BUTLER 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
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he... CHARLIE PUTH I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside ...
KIMBERLY NOVOSEL
I felt I was accurate with the last pass to Fergie. I had what I wanted and I felt like when I threw... BRETT FAVRE
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visi... ROBERT WILSON I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being wit...
QANDEEL BALOCH I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had a...
EVAN GLODELL Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a...
LAURIE MCLEOD
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit... ACE FREHLEY It was just everything about him. What he wanted in life was the same for me ... It's hard to explai...
JODI DIAS
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I r... EZRA MILLER
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 After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from L...
BRITT ROBERTSON
I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax ... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know w...
GRACE LEE BOGGS
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica...
BARRY MCGUIRE
The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was w... DENIS VILLENEUVE At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason...
DANNY AIELLO When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I c...
D. A. PENNEBAKER I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in...
CHRISSY METZ
When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that... JUNOT DIAZ But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th...
ELLEN POTTER
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics co... HARVEY PEKAR
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured th... KALPANA CHAWLA
Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one... JULIE ANNE PETERS
Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one... JULIE ANNE PETERS
You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev... HENRY FORD
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been some... CHANCE THE RAPPER When I was 11, I developed a new symptom - the worst one yet: I had to touch people before I talked ...
TIM HOWARD I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B Really began realizing how precious life was, how short the clock was, he had not done what he wante...
TIM ALBRIGHT
As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to b... LEONARD COHEN
For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I'd be at places with people I c... LINDSEY STIRLING I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll ...
CARA BUONO When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find...
TIKA SUMPTER when i was a little kid i loved to play in the snow when i moved to texas i was devastated that i ha...
DALLY SALAD
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after... STEVEN WRIGHT
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... KELSEA BALLERINI I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun'...
CASEY NICHOLAW I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was ab...
AKSEL HENNIE I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'...
TYLER JOSEPH
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I w... JENNIFER LAWRENCE
When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k... TOM HOLLAND There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication...
MICHAEL MANN
'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't le... THE WEEKND
I was baptized in the eighth grade, but I didn't really understand what it meant. Then it was in col... BARRY SANDERS
I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wanted to bawl my eyes out. I was terrified. I felt like I had no idea what I was getting myself i...
CHRISTINA KIM
It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, bu... KALEY CUOCO 'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and i...
NIKKI REED
I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote the... J. D. SOUTHER My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was ...
CORBIN BERNSEN
I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I ... STEPHANIE KLEIN
Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deform... RITA RUDNER
One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca... BILLY CRYSTAL One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for...
ROBERT FOGEL
Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sw... ERIC MCCORMACK I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routi...
JASON WILES I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling ...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade... BILL COSBY
I had no interests. I had no interests in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At leas... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was d...
EDWARD FURLONG I had a pretty cool life. I met my wife when I was 18, and we're still totally in love. I was in a s...
GLEN PHILLIPS
