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Related We like to play fast, and I felt like we were playing slow the whole game because we were having a h... ED ORTEGO If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where... JAROD KINTZ I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st... TERRY GILLIAM I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at. FANTASIA BARRINO Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, wher... AIMEE BENDER I don't know where it's going to lead, ... But I think a new element of fragility and vulnerability ... COLIN POWELL It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a... BARRY CRYER I felt like I wasted more than one shot there because it was a hole where you can expect to make a b... SHIHO OYAMA We just stuck together. We were all struggling really to live and survive and eat. I was more the pe... BOBBY DIXON The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked ever... BRYCE HARPER I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there an... MARLON ANDERSON I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my si... ALEX MORGAN I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so di... ROBERT HERJAVEC Playing is a priority for me. Everyone has worked so hard to get where we are and I felt like I owed... MICHAEL GRAFF At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was... M.I.A. I really didn't expect to finish where I did. I was doing it more for fun. I know I'm as good a skie... GRO KVINLOG At first it was really hard knowing that I wouldn't be able to play sports my senior year in high sc... LAURA ENGEL With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the worl... RANATA SUZUKI From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three mi... DAMON LINDELOF I went to three other parishes, but I really felt comfortable at St. Lawrence. I went to one liturgy... GLADYS POZZA There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little di... TIM GUNN It was very hard. But I really felt a peace about it. We knew that was where we were supposed to be. CINDY KRAFT I've got to find the right situation. I'm not going to jump into anything, though, because I'm only ... VINNIE ABBOTT I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sa... MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV That was the game where I just couldn't do it anymore. There is a difference between being injured a... DONOVAN MCNABB I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I... FRANCES O'CONNOR The more I watched him play, the more film I watched, the more I realized there was going to be a he... GREGG POPOVICH As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleep... VICTORIA HANLEY Some days, I cry all the way to work. And there have been a couple of days where I haven't even been... SHANNON TANNER I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they... FLORENCE GREEN My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my f... GREG KINNEAR My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying... BRAM COHEN It felt like home being back at my alma mater and where I coached for so long. I really wanted this ... EILEEN GIVENS I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything, but especially anything where it's... DANIELLE PANABAKER I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my soph... JOHN HAMBURG I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... KATHLEEN EDWARDS It was one of those days where I felt like I could put it where I want it. We just got beat in a goo... CLINT CROSIER Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa... EDMONIA LEWIS I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I ... NATHAN FILLION I've been through enough in my time where I've needed to outlet it. If I can do that in a way where ... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I had more fun making the movie than I did making the show Off-Broadway [where Rent began]. I'm olde... ADAM PASCAL I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job. PABLO SANDOVAL I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, s... MARIEL HEMINGWAY For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there... CHRIS TOUMAZOU I feel like I worked real hard throughout my three years to get where I'm at now. It comes second to... EDDIE MILLER That's pretty huge. I went through a situation in college where I was looking over my shoulder prett... JASON FIFE Being blamed of using steroids? My numbers were the same before and after. It didn't stay in my mind... JUAN RINCON I was scared. I've never been in the situation where I was crying before a race. I kind of felt like... CHAD HEDRICK For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s ea... JOHN SCALZI And when he was suddenly gone -- no, not just gone, dead in every possible meaning of the word to me... BENJAMIN R. SMITH I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... DANIEL ESPINOSA My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally... DIMEBAG DARRELL There was frustration from losing them all, but it was really a JV team playing a varsity schedule. ... TOM CLARK I’d like to have a life where people don’t monitor my movements, even accidentally. I’d like t... GREG BAXTER There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my ... J. K. ROWLING I felt like I was throwing pitches where I wanted and wasn't getting rewarded for them. JASON VARGAS My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... LUKE BRYAN I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the bas... EMEKA OKAFOR It was very close, to the point where I was skipping practice days at a time. When you skip four day... LAUREN RHEA I feel like we made some mistakes at the end but my kids worked really hard. To be up 10 with two mi... ERIC BURNETT The car was really quick, but it was early in the race and I didn't want to try to force a pass and ... BURT FRISSELLE At the start of the year, I felt that given the machinery, there were bound to be places where I wou... DAMON HILL You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made... ROBERT JORDAN But I got to the point where there was just nothing else I could do because .. we ran out of time. I... DAVID HOCKENBROCHT A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great educati... GUY KAWASAKI As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about ... KELLI BERGLUND I take it day-by-day, man, ... Some days are better than others, but I'm here and I think that's the... LAVAR ARRINGTON I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... KIP WINGER I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so a... ELLIE GOULDING When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav... BAT FOR LASHES To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home. DENICE ENVALL The first thing I did before I started thinking about my future was to understand where I come from,... HAPPY MUDIMELI I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't... MATT CAMERON I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watc... PATSY KENSIT I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else ... JO COX Jihad did a good job pressuring the ball and making some shots. Basically he came up and played hard... CEDRIC MCGOWAN I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only... RAE CARSON It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing... JUNOT DIAZ The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father... CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father... CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica... BARRY MCGUIRE I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all fro... NENEH CHERRY At first, it was just discomfort. Then as a few minutes passed, it became more than discomfort. It b... STEVEN SCHROEDER For me, I feel more at home in the dunes and the camel grass where I have a lot of experience and ca... HIROSHI MASUOKA I'll admit I was having a little trouble in the classroom before. I wasn't failing or anything, but ... BRANDEN ORE Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I ... JIM CARREY There were some strange balls that were pop ups and they kept going. I was throwing to the inside pa... BARRY ZITO I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, b... LUCY ALIBAR There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I... ERIC JOHNSON I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough m... CHRIS WOOD A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was ... AARON STERN I couldn't see beyond the walls of our apartment or the few miles between home and school. Every day... SARA ZARR There were days I felt like I couldn't get out of bed and I thought to my self I would not get over ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE It was not at the point where that was going to happen. But after meeting with Mr. Davis and Mike Lo... KEN WHISENHUNT I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what ... LANA DEL REY I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry,... SYLVIA PLATH I don't really remember a loss where I felt this bad afterward. I've never felt better going into a ... ANDY RODDICK It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and ... ASHTON EATON
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JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge... JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a... JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ... JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?" We... JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't... JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ... 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JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT