Related
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor ... SANDRA CISNEROS
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. LYNDON B. JOHNSON I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
LARRY WILCOX
Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bu... KATEE SACKHOFF
I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking. JAY LENO
I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimi... DAWN STEEL
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and... PAULA DANZIGER We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we did...
PHIL ROBERTSON
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in wh... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
CARLY PATTERSON
I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's ba... LES CLAYPOOL
I knew I was going to be in 'Spectre,' but I didn't realize I was a 'Bond girl' ... STEPHANIE SIGMAN College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. ...
CHRIS STAPLETON
The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti... CRAIG GROESCHEL
I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't g... BENNY GREEN
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f... INDIRA GANDHI
I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn... PATTI SMITH
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retai... PAUL PRUDHOMME I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content. NAFISA JOSEPH I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I care...
ADA YONATH
We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't... A. J. MCLEAN The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...
BOBBY SEALE
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments becau... JULIUS ERVING I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em...
BILL CALLAHAN I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ...
ALAN JACKSON I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on H...
JOAN GANZ COONEY
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they ... FREDDIE MERCURY I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't ha...
DAVID BAUTISTA
I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But w... PETE CARROLL
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating s... BEN E. KING
When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We d... ZAYN MALIK I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. Th...
CRISTINA SARALEGUI In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ...
GARY NUMAN With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the ...
FRANKIE VALLI I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20...
MISTY COPELAND
If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So,... AARON NEVILLE I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked...
CASEY AFFLECK I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.
DACRE MONTGOMERY
I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek. JIM DAVIS
The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it. DR. DRE Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-ex...
RAQUEL WELCH I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not ...
SALMAN KHAN
I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal rela... WANG JIANLIN
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY
I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that. VINCE VAUGHN
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was... MADS MIKKELSEN When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn...
JODY WILLIAMS
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ... GARY WRIGHT
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see... MAEVE BINCHY
I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor. AJ LEE
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... JOAN DIDION
There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missin... JOANNA LUMLEY
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve... MATT GROENING
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody. BILL MONROE My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ... DOLLY PARTON
I didn't have a happy childhood. GIORGIO ARMANI All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to...
JOHNNY MATHIS
I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come... WHIT STILLMAN
I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have... MALIN AKERMAN When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types...
STEPHEN MANGAN I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was...
CHARLIE ROSE I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I d...
RAJIV OUSEPH
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn... GLORIA STUART I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I ...
LIONEL BLUE There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was ...
KATE MICUCCI My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When...
MOHAMMED REZA PAHLAVI I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r...
PAM FERRIS
I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the w... LINDA RONSTADT
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... ANTHONY HOPKINS I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this ...
PATTI SCIALFA I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL
I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled. SHARAD PAWAR We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our t...
JOHN SLADEK
When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said sh... NICOLA ADAMS
I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I did... EMMANUEL JAL As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English p...
HOWARD JACOBSON We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
LESLIE ODOM, JR.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in stude... DEMETRI MARTIN
I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it w... COBI JONES
It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so ma... BETH HENLEY
I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't ... BOB BEAMON My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started givin...
ALAN KING The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy. BOB DYLAN I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never ...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably d...
ADAM YAUCH
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't hav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survive... DAVE GROHL
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11. ROGER MOORE
Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be... SETH SHOSTAK I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't...
NAOMI BENARON Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.
SONIA RYKIEL I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
RADHA MITCHELL
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that w... BRAD PITT Elvis was really sweet and kind of bashful, but he didn't have a whole lot to say.
RITA MORENO
