Preity Zinta quote: "My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard."

One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I...
CRAIG MELLO

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a...
SHRADDHA KAPOOR

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. ...
DICK GEPHARDT

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon ...
LORETTA SWIT

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

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PATRICK J. ADAMS

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JAMES C. DOBSON

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

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JULIAN OVENDEN

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LEWIS N. ROE

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It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE

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ERIC CARR

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a w...
ISLA FISHER

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we wou...
BRIE LARSON

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ERIC CARR

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.
JOHNNY VAN ZANT

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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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

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON

I wanted to be an artist when I was a little kid, but I realized when I got older that being an arti...
DANIEL BRANCHAL

Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
ROSA PARKS

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
RICKY GERVAIS

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised ...
YUL VAZQUEZ

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 was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so...
MARK RUFFALO

My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,
JOE SIMPSON

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the de...
RYAN GOSLING

Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born wi...
LINDSAY PEARCE

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but...
LUPITA NYONG'O

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

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CARL WEATHERS

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was ge...
DON RICKLES

From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very s...
ASHLEY MADEKWE

I wanted to be a minister when I first went to college. You see, I was very shy as a kid, and couldn...
JOHN DAVIDSON

My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in thea...
ARSENIO HALL

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He...
TIM MCGRAW

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was ...
EMILY DESCHANEL

In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers....
RAIN

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl...
PHILIP TREACY

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that mad...
SKYLAR ASTIN

People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL

You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to...
LIBBA BRAY

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ...
JAY-Z

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TERRY HAYES

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

I went to bed the first night knowing I had to win or else that was it. And I also knew it was again...
DEWITT DRISCOLL

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestina...
MORGAN FREEMAN

For me, my life is a journey.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've ...
KIRSTEN DUNST

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't ...
ANNA KENDRICK

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES

I was a little afraid at first. I didn't have a lot of confidence when I first went out there. But i...
ERIC MAUPIN

When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more tha...
MICHAEL THOMAS FORD

When I was a kid, I used to fantasize about death. Not that I was suicidal, but there was an attract...
CONOR OBERST

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never...
EMINEM

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST

Ever since I was a little kid, I always thought about my first start in college football. I was a li...
BLAKE FIELD

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren...
SHASHI THAROOR

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, b...
ROBERT DAVID HALL

I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat...
CARSON WENTZ

Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my...
ANDREA BOCELLI

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that,...
JACK BOWMAN

When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and ma...
ALICIA WITT

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straigh...
CHAZ BONO

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i...
DIANE KRUGER

I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something rela...
RANVEER SINGH

It was a great honor to be selected. My coach (George Braun) told me I was the first player picked f...
JOE MANNING

To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I ...
TEDDY SEARS

Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard...
MIKE WALLACE

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd kno...
PALOMA FAITH

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in...
MERCEDES RUEHL

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy...
JIM LEHRER

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Cu...
MERRY CLAYTON

Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down...
BARRY LEVINSON

I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I ha...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN

When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.

My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her f...
LAURIE GRAHAM

It means a lot in that I always felt invisible, and I was louder in my own head than I was verbally,...
GEORGE LOPEZ

My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.

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