When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.
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She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is ... DANA HILL My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed... CLAUDE CHABROL So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of ... DUSTIN HOFFMAN Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to ... MAX VON SYDOW I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in ... DEMAUNDRAY WOOLRIDGE I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poe... JAMES SALTER I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ... BARRY ZITO It just wasn't the place for me, and he (Williams) told me to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to go... BRENT VINSON My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary wal... IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th... CALVIN COOLIDGE When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college ... DANA HILL And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences,... SARAH SILVERMAN My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die... GENE WEBB I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ... ERYKAH BADU I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for college, but when I decided to go to the University of New Ham... AUDRA PAQUETTE When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I wo... 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TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea... TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b... TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn... TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th... TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than... TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it. TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them. TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --... TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li... TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif... TERRY PRATCHETT Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species... TERRY PRATCHETT Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon... TERRY PRATCHETT Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus... TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded. TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes... TERRY PRATCHETT Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and... TERRY PRATCHETT No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom... TERRY PRATCHETT "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<... TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.... TERRY PRATCHETT