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I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.
‐‐ Marie Rutkoski

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
‐‐ Ron White

I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.
‐‐ John Lewis

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.
‐‐ Cherie Blair

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I was so intimidated by the thought of improvising back in the '80s when I was in Chicago. I think the opportunity only even came up once that I can recall, and I turned down the offer. It was to go improvise in some club in the suburbs or something. Good God, I couldn't think of anything more frightening than to get up there without a plan.
‐‐ Neil Flynn

I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.
‐‐ Margaret Qualley

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
‐‐ Jack Dee

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
‐‐ Lord Mountbatten

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

I was so lucky and blessed to have gotten 'White Chicks' so early into my career.
‐‐ Rochelle Aytes

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston

I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.
‐‐ Cam Gigandet

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.
‐‐ Lizzo

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
‐‐ Johnny Carson

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
‐‐ Alanna Ubach

I was so nervous about 'Kingsman,' I can't tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don't know how people are going to react.
‐‐ Matthew Vaughn

I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
‐‐ Tahyna Tozzi

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
‐‐ Adria Arjona

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'
‐‐ Cilla Black

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
‐‐ Natalie Wood

I was so passionate about being in the magazine industry, even when I first started at 'Mirabella.'
‐‐ Nina Garcia

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
‐‐ John Henry Carver

I was so proud of my team and myself for changing the rules of the fashion industry.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. What a great honor.
‐‐ Michael Reagan

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I was so results-oriented.
‐‐ Denise Morrison

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
‐‐ Linda Blair

I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it a chance. I'm a big fan of the NBC comedies.
‐‐ Erinn Hayes

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
‐‐ Adam Peaty

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
‐‐ Ian Rush

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.
‐‐ Shuji Nakamura

I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?'
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.
‐‐ Sarah Dessen

I was so thrilled to be in 'Doctor Who.' It's such a wonderful experience, and the fan base that that show has never fails to surprise me.
‐‐ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.
‐‐ Holliday Grainger

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.
‐‐ Thomas Muster

I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.
‐‐ Agnetha Faltskog