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“I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.”

Break Drug Abuse Alcohol Psychotic Drug Abuse

“I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.”

Kids School Names Class Teacher Minutes Seats Public School School Education

Author:Casey Affleck

“I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.”

Littles Two Use Wanted Felt Publishers Little Kid Syllables

Author:Stan Lee

“I had a purpose. I had a reason to take a shower every morning. I had a reason to take care of myself. More than that, I was figuring out how doing something for other people could - in fact - be doing something for yourself. Amazing.”

Giving And Receiving Purpose In Life Quote Finding Meaning In Life

Author:Katherine Center

Source: How to Walk Away

“I had a question asked of me the other day, and this is asked of me a lot, surprisingly. 'Is there anything you want that you can't have?' And I said, 'Of course! What kind of question is this? Of course there is.' There's any number of things that I would like to have that I either can't afford or it doesn't make sense to buy. You know, I'd love to have world peace.”

World Kind Make Sense

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.”

Knows World Doe Has Beens Said War Eye Names Sound Military Familiar Remembered Revolutionary Soil Bells Pearls Harbors Uneducated Colonels Revolutionary War Lieutenants

Author:James Patterson

Source: Maximum Ride: Max

“I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.”

Language Picks Ears

Author:Diane Cilento

“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.”

Mind Literature Ability Secret Impossible Combination Sanity Maximum

Author:Norman Mailer

Source: An American Dream: A Novel

“I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.”

Long Ends Enough Faces Used Nice Brown Bites Fades Tails Rats Wraps

Author:J. Cole

“I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"”

Years Looks Real Jesus Born Lines Poverty Feminism Streets Couple Walking Years Ago Direct Climate Climate Change Hunger Born Again

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I had a real comfort with being on a set and in particular working with special effects and because of that background, it became much easier for me to base a first time feature film on a low budget cause I was sort of already knew how to do that.”

Firsts Real Film Causes Special Effects Particular Easier Comfort Lows First Time Backgrounds Budgets Features Special Effects

Author:Duncan Jones

“I had a real epiphany. I guess it was during and after the operation. I did what's a common thing; I kind of raised above the table and could look at me and listen to all the people talking and understand what they were saying and so forth.”

People Looks Kind Real Common Talking Tables Raised Operations Look At Me Epiphany People Talking Common Things

Author:Larry Hagman

“I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in a room full of people who authentically knew as much or more than me, and feeling like I was absolutely equal, and what I had to say was important.”

People Important Real Feelings Remember Actors Rooms Equal Speaking Up Real Feelings

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!”

Years Real Jobs Father Causes Can Do My Own Cutting Dad Twenties My Dad Mexico Eighty Bucks Fourteen Liver Seventeen Drinkers Real Jobs Love My Dad I Love My Dad Drifters

Author:Christopher Titus

“I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.”

Real Kids Passion Attention Laughing Stage Adults Performing Bugs Goofy

Author:Tom Green

“I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.”

Real School Voice Can Do Stage Quiet Loud Sensitivity Subtlety Quiet Voice

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.”

Years Real Use School Opportunity Heard Teaching Gaps Yearning Tibetan Monasteries Teaching English

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class. I had an essay that I was supposed to write, and, instead of writing an essay, I wrote a song. So, I was playing this song in class, and I literally turned the color of this sweater that I was wearing, completely red. I think it was that feeling of challenging everything in me, my introverted personality. Like, "This is what you have to do. It doesn't matter if you do it wrong, you just have to do it."”

Thinking Writing Feelings Problem Song Challenges Personality First Time Essays Blushing Introverted

Author:Caitlin Rose

“I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.”

Sports Growing Up Growing Temper Squash Bad Temper Bad Grades

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.”

Wells Different Coaches Fantastic Dialect Intonation Dialect Coach

Author:Andrew Scott

“I had a really fat friend. The next time I saw him he looked like me! He said he lost the weight by eating as much tuna as he wanted. It was hard to recognize him without his excessive weight!”

Wanted Lost Eating Weight Friend Fat Tuna Recognize Without Excessive

Author:Steven Magee

“I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.”

Thinking Knows Kids Upbringing Indiana Generic

Author:Shane Carruth

“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.”

Childhood Moved Divorce Classic

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”

Cases Childhood Divorce Nine Classic Affected Fatherhood Good Childhood

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.”

Knows Feels Feelings Sports Friends Good Friend Tigers Relaxed Good Feeling

Author:Hal Sutton

“I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.”

Should Bigs Wanted Talent Fronts Office Good Times Elephants Quarrels Washing Mgm Front Office

Author:Marion Davies

“I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.”

Long Guy Causes Hair Beats Good Times Tragic New Orleans Horns Beard Horny Long Hair Rouge Baton Baton Rouge

Author:Ornette Coleman

“I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know.”

Knows Needs Shows Share Hip Hop Hips I've Learned Good Times Hops Sisterhood

Author:MC Lyte

“I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.”

Thinking America Beautiful Attention Special Details Admire I've Learned Good Times Ingredients Attention To Detail Fresh Ingredients

Author:Ted Allen

“I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.”

Want Film Actors Acting Careers Heard Discipline Really Great Great Experiences Film Acting

Author:Thomas Horn

“I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.”

Mother Childhood Financial Strife Sibling Really Happy My Siblings Happy Childhood

Author:Patti Smith

“I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.”

People Dream Night Cities Childhood Flying Intense Teens Facilitate

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.”

Kind Challenges Divorce Get Over

Author:Ricki Lake

“I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.”

Looks Different Night Courses Found Sides Focus New York Negative Hollywood Los Angeles Modeling

Author:Erin Gray

“I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.”

Numbers Class Nice Musician Association Composer Drummer Really Nice Great Music Great Musician

Author:Jon Gordon

“I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.”

Parent Nice Childhood Summer Garden Dishes Daddy Washing Really Nice Allowance Great Parents Washing Dishes

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I had a really nice time on [Alphas]. It was a bunch of really good actors, and I was particularly thrilled to be working with David Strathairn.”

Actors Nice Bunch Really Nice Good Actors Alphas Nice Time

Author:Brent Spiner

“I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.”

Sometimes Childhood Television Brother Normal Soccer My Brother

Author:Shiri Appleby

“I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away.”

Thinking Film Process Tvs Bigger Familiar Pleasant Progression Small Parts Carried Away

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.”

Mother Difficult Alive Lucky Daughter Scary My Daughter Pregnancy Delivery Really Scary Lucky To Be Alive

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. I'd done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: "Wow!" They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: "I definitely want to do this!"”

Want Trying Done Film Guy Fun Acting Roles Creative Week Wow Goddess Stretching Aphrodite Short Films Liam Role Playing Small Roles

Author:Agyness Deyn

“I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.”

Years Shows Jobs Gone Offers Tough Hollywood Phones Tough Times

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I had a really unusual, remarkably unusual father because he, in our family, was the one that suffered the most. He was the one that explained American democracy to me. He said, ‘Our democracy is a people’s democracy and it can be as great as people can be, and it can be great… but we are also fallible human beings.’”

People Democracy

Author:George Takei

“I had a really weird moment when I was doing ADR, and I was watching a sex scene that I was in. I had this really detached moment where I realized I was looking at my own behind in third person.”

Persons Moments Sex My Own Behinds Scene Thirds I Realized Detached Really Weird Third Person

Author:Robert Kazinsky

“I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.”

Years Two Grows Growing Up Wonderful Taught Brother Brothers And Sisters Supportive Sibling Upbringing Older Brother Younger Sister Tight Family

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.”

Has Beens Stills Fashion Events Husband Late Difficulty Evening Paris My Husband Tied Plates Delivery Hairstyles

Author:Gail Carriger

“I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.”

Deals Records Band Singing Rap Sony

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I had a record on the Terror Squad album "My Kinda Girls", and then I had a record on the second Terror Squad album and was featured all over it. I wasn't really introduced into the game until about late 2000 where people got to see where I look like.”

People Looks Girl Games Records Late Terror Albums Over It Squad

Author:Tony Sunshine

“I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did.”

Ifs Years America Sound President Fantasy Trouble Horror Presses Objectives Saving Conferences Recurring Press Conferences Rudy

Author:Michael Hastings

“I had a relationship and you know that it had progressed to unforgivable dimensions. Is it really a person’s past that decides suitability?”

Love Past Relationship Suitability

Author:Dhaval Rathod

Source: Unleash That River

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