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One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a… — Beck Copy Share Image
I remember one particular moment (I don't actually know how old I was, but I guess around 7 or something like that)… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before… — John Scarne Copy Share Image
I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
I went to University after my A levels and did a degree in performing arts. It was only when I got there… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain:… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I… — Vanessa Bell Calloway Copy Share Image
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I… — Hunter Tylo Copy Share Image
We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor.… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image