Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.
‐‐ Josh Radnor
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
‐‐ Roger Clemens
Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone
Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.
‐‐ Sheena Easton
Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
‐‐ Yanis Varoufakis
Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.
‐‐ Bobby Bowden
Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro
Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.
‐‐ Louis Leterrier
Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.
‐‐ Lucy Powell
Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.
‐‐ George Strait
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
‐‐ Morrissey
Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
‐‐ Ziyi Zhang
Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
‐‐ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
‐‐ Mark Skousen
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton
Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
‐‐ Justin Kirk
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena
Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.
‐‐ Timothy Bottoms
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
‐‐ Vicki Lawrence
Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki
Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.
‐‐ Penelope Mitchell
Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.
‐‐ Joe Torre
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
‐‐ Corin Nemec
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan
Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
‐‐ David Bowie
Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.
‐‐ Emma Holly
Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee
Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys.
‐‐ Leigh-Allyn Baker
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski
Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
‐‐ Bill Hader
Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.
‐‐ Jeff Gannon
Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.
‐‐ Emily Oster
Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
‐‐ George Michael
Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg
Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss
Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.
‐‐ Angus T. Jones
Even though it's not a widely appreciated yarn, any suit made from a mohair-wool blend travels exceptionally well. The retention of the mohair fiber bounces back and minimizes any creasing that occurs whilst traveling. Mohair also breathes really well, keeping you cool or warm, and is therefore extremely versatile.
‐‐ Simon Spurr
Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.
‐‐ Big Sean
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
‐‐ Taryn Manning
Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.
‐‐ Susan Wojcicki
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
‐‐ Mary Higgins Clark
Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
‐‐ Mike Wallace
Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.
‐‐ John Fogerty
Even though Japan and Germany were not formal allies at the time that Japan conquered Shanghai in 1937, still, Frenchtown was an area that Japan could take complete control of - and they did. And it was the locus of nightlife.
‐‐ Nicole Mones
Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig