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“I had a knack for sniffing out the rowdiest dive bars, the real ones, dark, loud, and rough around the edges, always with the distinct foul smell of old beer and urine. The Est Est Est was no different. The exterior of the building was lined with locals talking amidst a cloud of cigarette smoke. The interior was nearly pitch black, if it weren’t for the rainbow-colored disco ball spinning rays of light across the bar. I recognized a pair of patrons from the previous bar.”

Inspirational Identity Mental Health Personal Growth Self Discovery Memoir Travel Writing Cycling Solo Travel Culture Critique

Author:T. A. Rhodes

Source: The Lost Art of Searching: Embracing Uncertainty, Discovering Intrinsic Value, and Charging Through Life One Ride at a Time

“I had a knife fixed in my dress in case I needed it but my hopes were to somehow manage this without getting blood on my hands. I'd prefer Peter get to make the ultimate decision of what to do with the Mouse King.”

Fantasy Snow Christmas Fairytale Retelling Clara Nutcracker Frostington

Author:Tayler Marie Brooks

Source: Sugar Plum Princess

“I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.”

Pounds Laptops

Author:Curt Schilling

“I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.”

Thinking Way Book Rooms Serious Needed Fit Library Treatment Categories Divided Right Way Organised Psychiatric Buenos Aires

Author:Alberto Manguel

“I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.”

Remember Advice Needed My Friends Obvious Life Experience Talk To Me Rabbi Obvious Things

Author:Jeff Ross

“I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.”

Long Player Ambition Baseball Long Life Baseball Player

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.”

Made Ends Faith Christianity Quarrels Lifelong

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.”

Thinking Men May Said Use Funny Language Ability Animal Planets Species Professors Dominant Cleaners Linguistics

Author:Jeff Stilson

“I had a list of about 35 restaurants, 25 of which were fast-food joints all around Los Angeles and I didn't get a quarter through the list. It just became me thinking about going to these places and wanting to enjoy the food and food just not being enjoyable anymore.”

Thinking Enjoy Lists Restaurants Los Angeles Quarters Joints Enjoyable Fast Food

Author:Colin Farrell

“I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.”

America Strong Fiction Female Science Fiction Lists Tedious Protagonists Regularity Strong Female Female Protagonists

Author:William Gibson

“I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.”

Littles Made Lying Certain Bits Acting Periods Little Bit Singing Lays Strain Vocal

Author:Robert Davi

“I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.”

Littles Ideas Happens Energy Bits Baby Little Bit Resistance

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.”

Littles Dog Mines Treasure Pet My Dog

Author:Francis Cornford

“I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.”

Littles Ideas White Wine Dinner Expected Magazines Make Sense Sat Fascinating Chocolate Chicago Cake Fabulous Dessert Epiphany Tasting Chocolate Cake Wine Tasting Ritz

Author:Ted Allen

“I had a little help from my Glimmers.”

Love Faith Hope Friendship Fiction Animals Pets Children Books Heart Warming Fiction Books

Author:Robert Agnello

Source: The Glimmers Save Christmas

“I had a little indie label called No Core and Dave Grohl's first band was called, Dain Bramage so I out an album for them and for whatever reason, he's never forgot it and has always been super nice to me since.”

Firsts Littles Reason Nice Band Albums Core Labels Dave

Author:Reed Mullin

“I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.”

Littles Eye Kids Mother Father Literature Social Saws Workers Insight His Eyes Social Worker

Author:Charles Kuralt

“I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.”

Littles Wanted Sampling

Author:Rakim

“I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.”

Witch Exile Circe Aiaia Pharmakis

Author:Madeline Miller

Source: Circe

“I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.”

Littles Form Black Boys Sweet Piano Georgia Peaches

Author:Elton John

“I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.”

Littles Born Sin Sorrow

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Millay: Poems

“I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.”

Littles School Bears Bed Favourite Teddy Teddy Bear Gophers

Author:John Terry

“I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. Thats what I try to do.”

Trying Long Felt Responsibility Conversation Lifts Teammate Long Conversations

Author:Randy Johnson

“I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.”

Thinking Knows Long Know How Conversation University Encounters Als Long Conversations

Author:Pope Francis

“I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle— you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that weren’t sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a … man’s love songs”

“I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.”

Long Stills Might Used Guy Behinds Car Vote Used To Be Wheels That Guy Shouting Rooftops Springsteen

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I had a long talk with my dear Fat Mary that night, because I had many questions. Could someone actually be beaten to death by such a nun? Did Mother Rufina, the new Superior, know that Sister Clotilda was so cruel? Who let her work with children? Could nuns go to hell? Fat Mary told me she didn’t know the answers to my questions, but she reminded me that it was her role to take my worries and burdens and keep them for me until a time when I could understand them.”

Religion Injustice Child Abuse Autobiography Surviving Critical Thinking Brutality Spirtitual Growth Systematic Abuse

Author:Maria Nhambu

Source: Africa's Child

“I had a long talk with my husband last night,' Abigail explained, 'and he made me realize that I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty enough and let them skew my perception of events, or I can push aside that clamor and seek out the voice that tells me I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Love Confidence Encouragement Insecurity Marriage Life Husband And Wife Relationship Marriage Of Convenience Supportive Relationship Marriage Life Problem Solution

Author:Karen Witemeyer

Source: More Than Words Can Say

“I had a long time To cry And it took me By surprise That these days I am crying for you”

Love Pain Poetry Hurt Tears Poem Depression Heartbreak Mental Health Crying

Author:Jazalyn

Source: The Tears of the Heart: Eight (8) Phases of Heartbreak

“I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.”

Thinking Knows Writing Long Film Behinds Fiction Science Fiction Historical Writing History

Author:William Monahan

“I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.”

Way Feels Wells Kind Light Reading Absolutes Longing My Way Ritual Routine Critique Theological Commentary Torches Nudge

Author:Jack Dee

“I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.”

Running Imagine Brother Alone Time

Author:Karen Gillan

“I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.”

Way Should Done Use Seems Social Acceptance Gains Boxes British Tea Frustration Conform Norm Social Norms Predictability Pointlessness

Author:Rupert Friend

“I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.”

Way Anger Raised

Author:Patrick Swayze

“I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.”

Careers Wise Anger Anger Inside

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I had a lot of bad habits in how I was playing the horn. And I slowly, in high school and college, started to recognize them and get them a little better. But it was not an overnight process, I'll say that.”

Littles School Process College Habit High School Horns Bad Habits

Author:Jon Gordon

“I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.”

Thinking Men Years Bigs Jobs Doors Jokes Comedian Sandwiches Snl Bad Jobs Internships

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!”

Stills Body Used Lost Challenges Plans Havens Losing Weight Sexy Used To Be Curves

Author:Kendra Wilkinson

“I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.”

Knows Years Enough Childhood Chaos Dealing With It

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.”

Made Together Literature Influence Opera Glamour Classical Music Sleazes

Author:Rick Owens

“I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.”

Hard Character Kids Names Growing Up Growing Effects Building Opposites Coaches Building Character

Author:Steve Carell

“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

Home Artist Beauty Decided Dating Eyebrows

Author:Andy Warhol

Source: The Andy Warhol Diaries

“I had a lot of depression as a kid.”

Kids

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.”

Way Should Different Jobs House Stuff My Own Brother Should Have Moved Odd My Brother Fifteen Sixteen Nineteen Warehouse Different Jobs Odd Jobs Busboys

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.”

Way Years Parent Encouragement Spending Tolerance Many Friends

Author:Michel Gondry

“I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.”

Energy Fronts Cameras Eleven

Author:Brendan Dooling

“I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.”

Wanted Design Type Enthusiasm Contradictory

Author:Michael Bierut

“I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed”

Needed Skins Excess

Author:Carnie Wilson

“I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.”

Long Stories Situation Long Time Expectations Overcoming Short Story

Author:Jess Row

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