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I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.
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It is a lie.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.
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I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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I guess when [novels] started, most early novels were just sort of pornography: Apparently, most med...
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MAUREEN JOHNSON Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
JOHN WILLIAMS Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... BRUCE COVILLE When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I used to make cassette tapes but never thought about making a career of it.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... I never thought of being a musician as a proper career.
LAURA CANTRELL Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
JAMES ROLLINS I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would li...
LUCY HAWKING
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this ... JOHN LASSETER
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. RANDY PAUSCH If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS...
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... JASPER FFORDE Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI I never really thought of community service as a movement, but it is.
ADAM GARDNER You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a diffe...
BOB CORKER
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and the...
JOE HALDEMAN I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia d...
TROY GARITY
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a... JAMES PATTERSON I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself ...
ADRIAN TOMINE I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ...
BUZZ OSBORNE When I started I was being too cautious. But I thought I've got to make it as sexy as possible.
CHADWICK BROOKS
I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career. CARRIE ANN INABA History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance
RITA HAYWORTH
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classe... ORSON SCOTT CARD
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I int... MOHSIN HAMID
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt ... PETER HELLER Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mista...
VAL MCDERMID I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn...
KIM HARRISON
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great... ALAN FURST To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS... When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t...
GARY F EVANS...
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to wr... DAVID DUCHOVNY GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di... CHAIM POTOK
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a... ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then ... TOMMY LASORDA I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Fes...
DANIEL STERN
You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of... SOFIA VERGARA I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up ...
DANIEL S. LOEB
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. QUENTIN TARANTINO
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... HUNTER HAYES
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ROBERT F. KENNEDY I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is s...
NASIM PEDRAD
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thoug... STEVIE WONDER
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it. BELLA THORNE
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week'... MITCHEL RESNICK
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who wr... TOM STOPPARD . . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writer’s dream, by learning to market yo...
TERRY KENNEDY I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe...
ANDREA BARRETT
I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer. MIKE LOVE I've never really thought of myself as a singer.
CHARLIE FINK I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, su...
MISTY COPELAND While I was never really into pageants, my teacher convinced me to try out and my pageant career sta...
DEVON WILLIAMS We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of tim... MICHAEL DIRDA
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... PAUL AUSTER I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never ...
KASKADE I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a...
WATT KEY A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a c...
ROBERTO AGUIRE
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my ...
EDGARDO OSORIO At first I thought of myself as an outcast, but that's like my new family. I really enjoy being arou...
BRANDON LUCKETT A lot of it (coming out for football) had to do with Coach Robert; I just wanted to quiet him. I kin...
ANDREW SHERWOOD
You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always tho... NASH GRIER
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happene... BEBE REXHA I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art ...
KIM GORDON I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label - make me laugh. I want to make you think.
BASSEM YOUSSEF I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing no... QUENTIN TARANTINO
Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend mo... TODD RUNDGREN
I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move. MADONNA
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to th... ABBY WAMBACH
Never doubt that one person can make a difference. INGRID NEWKIRK
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. JOHN LYDON
I guess when [novels] started, most early novels were just sort of pornography: Apparently, most med... DOUGLAS ADAMS
