Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer
Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
‐‐ Clarissa Ward
Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.
‐‐ Gemma Chan
Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
‐‐ Christopher Reeve
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult
Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
‐‐ Hallie Ephron
Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.
‐‐ Julian Castro
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
‐‐ Isaac Mizrahi
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
‐‐ Bo Derek
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
‐‐ Esther Williams
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
‐‐ Cara Castronuova
Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham
Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick
Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson
Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.
‐‐ Ice Cube
Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
‐‐ Karen Elson
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
‐‐ John Fogerty
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
‐‐ Lev Grossman
Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.
‐‐ Sarah Mlynowski
Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
‐‐ Becky G
Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
‐‐ Karl Malone
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
‐‐ Ben Folds
Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person.
‐‐ Graham Elliot
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
‐‐ Meg Cabot
Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk
Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
‐‐ Jimmy Chamberlin
Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
‐‐ Ted Rall
Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson
Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!
‐‐ Nina Dobrev
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
‐‐ Andrew Rannells
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
‐‐ Francia Raisa
Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.
‐‐ Keke Palmer
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
‐‐ Brian Eno
Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.
‐‐ Terry Fox
Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.
‐‐ Michael Strahan
Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon
Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.
‐‐ Stephen Baker
Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.
‐‐ John Grogan
Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
‐‐ Patrick Chan
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
‐‐ Jane Seymour
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
‐‐ David Guterson
Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.
‐‐ Atticus Shaffer