Chinua Achebe
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ROZAN I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela... EVAN GLODELL When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first gra... DICKEY BETTS Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would alway... WIL WHEATON For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I... JAMES MERCER 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 You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a fo... MICHAEL OWEN VIN DIESEL I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think a... PATRICK DUFFY KRISTEN STEWART GENE WILDER JAMES CORDEN I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what wo... JAMES AVERY 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a speci... CARLTON CUSE NIECY NASH TEA LEONI And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to... MEL TILLIS KERRY WASHINGTON HOWARD STERN KEVYN AUCOIN LINDSEY STIRLING J. COLE JILL SCOTT BRENDON URIE KRISTEN STEWART IAN MCKELLEN The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little... THEO VON J. J. WATT I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I d... DAVID GRANN SAM HUNT Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and bl... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like the... ALEX KINGSTON PAIGE VANZANT GEORGE GERSHWIN BLAKE LIVELY J. COLE CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it b... FRANK MARSHALL I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm a... TAHYNA TOZZI When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' b... MADISON DAVENPORT My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl... RUMER WILLIS BILL GOLDBERG LANCE BASS MILAN KUNDERA KARA WALKER 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 I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the m... DANIEL JOHNSTON I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ... 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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that'... 
When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k... 
And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do... 
I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn... 
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne... 
For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find somet... 
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... 
I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I... 
Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to ... 
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... 
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... 
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But... 
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the direct... 
I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doi... 
When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was ... 
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least ... 
I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned t... 
I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn'... 
I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... 
I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn't even like the per... 
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta... 
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn&... 
'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn... 
There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel li... 
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but tha... 
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona... 
I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... 
I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... 
I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a litt... 
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later ... 
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta... 
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that som... 
I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... 
I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I f... 
When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me inv... 
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. 
I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going t... 
When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, '... 
Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in th... 
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would t... 
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... 
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... 
I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 7... 
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha... 
I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be ... 
I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear any... 
I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do... 
I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me ... 
Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that... 
My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online ... 
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I... 
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. 
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.