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(JOHN BOYNTON) PRIESTLEY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age-... J. B. PRIESTLY I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled firs... BRESHA WEBB Syracuse had a young team when Carmelo [Anthony] was there. So we're just like them. We're real youn... JOEY DORSEY It was absolutely terrifying, actually. Seeing the events broadcast made it completely surreal and d... ZACHARY MASTOON He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creat... LEO TOLSTOY So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, in... MARKUS ZUSAK I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers. OLESYA RULIN I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or no... 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CASSANDRA CLARE There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. ... PAULA CREAMER There was only one piece that he had reservations about. DOUGLAS KINSEY I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o... OTTO PREMINGER He is quite incredible - it made me think a bit about me winning the French Open at 17 and how profe... MICHAEL CHANG Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you... ANNA LEE There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after w... RICK JAMES It was pretty tough. I had no one to practice with, and it was just Coach beating up on me. I was th... KYLE ZIGELSKY Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. ANNA GODBERSEN Latino media, both print and broadcast, have played an important role (in bringing people out), espe... 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BARBIE VINEY There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes ... JOHN C. CALHOUN The biggest thing was probably my Achilles (tendon). I hurt it when I got over to Colorado, and I th... LARRY BIGBIE When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw ... JENNY LEWIS When you're around with a camera, necessarily you are changing things, just by observing them. The g... JAMES LONGLEY There was nothing girlish about me. I wore clothes hand-stitched by my mother... I had only one ear ... DIVYANKA TRIPATHI Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time... JEFF BUCKLEY ...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did ... ROBIN HOBB Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig... 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