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“I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.”

Opportunity Chance Lucky Surprise Architecture Good Opportunity

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.”

Teacher Brother Listening Bills Good Teacher Stanley Bluegrass

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.”

Four Singing Starting Great Men Mentor

Author:Gladys Knight

“I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.”

Thinking Men Writing Pain Teacher Burden Meaningful Great Music Very Mean

Author:Quiara Alegria Hudes

“I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.”

Way Wanted Roles Fields Proud Hero Fame Models Damn Halls Role Models Hall Of Fame Great Role Models

Author:Allan Ray

“I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.”

Worst Great Things Bad Things

Author:Richard Pryor

“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.”

Ifs Knows Hard Philosophy Able Belief Theory Prove Claims Philosophical Hesitation Prove It

Author:Stephen Cole Kleene

“I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on something and rub, you get amazing results. Before that, I used lighter fluid and, well, I've always liked blood. Everybody thinks I am very sick, but the thing is, blood is better than any ink or paint.”

Thinking Moments Sick Paint

Author:Peter Beard

“I had some information and some noise, and needed only to determine what was information and what was noise, and then determine which parts of me I should ignore and which I should listen to.”

Self Consciousness Identity Discernment

Author:Brian Evenson

Source: The Warren

“I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.”

Thinking Late Jokes Appearance Dirty Curse Remove Explicit Conan Letterman Curse Words

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.”

People Made Painting Drug Awful

Author:Jean-Michel Basquiat

“I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.”

Lessons Instruments Guitar Mum Music Lessons

Author:Brandy Clark

“I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.”

Ifs Class Students Structure Patterns Obvious Finance Data

Author:Merton Miller

“I had some people say to me, you don`t - you wouldn`t give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?”

People Ifs Giving Air Crazy Trump Bother Holocaust Covering Tweet Why Bother Holocaust Deniers

Author:Chuck Todd

“I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.”

People Knows Way Feels Long Home America Strong Strange Familiar Irony Shock Long Way Irony Of Life Coming To America

Author:Trevor Noah

“I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my friends got evicted or pushed out and couldn't afford a new place. For me, I wanted more space to set up a home studio, but there was no way to afford that.”

Way Home Wanted Space Situation Lucky My Friends Studios Apartment New Places Good Living

Author:Mikal Cronin

“I had some pretty weird fan mail growing up, sometimes from prison and wherever else. Nothing too intense. Some superfans that maybe went a little overboard with gifts and whatnot, expecting something other than what it could be with a kid. That's a little weird. But at the same time, it's like, "Hey, I'm getting free video games. I'm not going to return it if you sent it!" Thankfully we never felt unsafe.”

Sometimes Kids Growing Up Prison Intense Expecting Overboard

Author:Lindsey Haun

“I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.”

Particular Died Dear Aids Dear Friend Dear God Many Friends

Author:Ed Harris

“I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.”

Really Great Great Experiences

Author:John Britt Daniel

“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”

Men Should Mind Long Found Women Liberty Marriage Struggle Air Bears Lovers Sexism Inclination Capricious My Lover

Author:Sarah Fielding

Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

“I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.”

Should Made Night Felt Basketball Shots Balls Every Night

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I had some struggles later in my teenage years. I moved away from home and struggled a little bit being on my home and finding out who I was and trying to mix that with my faith and make it real. I learned a lot of lessons and made some mistakes along the way.”

Way Trying Years Littles Made Real Home Bits Mistake Struggle Lessons Findings Little Bit Moved Teenage Away From Home Teenage Years

Author:Mike Fisher

“I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.”

Feet Surgery

Author:Merle Haggard

“I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.”

Years Fun Talking Directors Back In The Day

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'”

Thinking Knows Men Looks Wish Needed Majors Tough Grateful League Tough Times Major League

Author:Matt Holliday

“I had some toxic encounters with Merseyside Police when I lived in Liverpool. It was my first experience of police corruption and the blatant cover-ups the police engage in.”

Experience Corruption Encounters Toxic Liverpool Cover Ups First Blatant Lived Merseyside

Author:Steven Magee

“I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.”

Littles Long Made Father Memories Wonder Journey Car Train Vague Visiting Lad Sydney Canberra

Author:John Henry Carver

“I had some very fit people. I worked with a lot of athletes helping them, especially combat athletes, MMA fighters,[Dennis] Bermudez, [Chris] Weidman, and guys on the lower levels - boxers and MMA fighters.”

People Helping Guy Levels Fit Athlete Fighter Mma Combat Boxers

Author:Chris Algieri

“I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.”

People Has Beens Book Past Names Sides Memories Week Havens My Favorite Things To Do Copies Toms Routes Over The Past Thrillers Bookstores Favorites Things Maine Paws Fond Memories

Author:John Hodgman

“I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.”

Giving Kind I Can Dream Past Wonderful Months Needed Messages Give Me Meetings

Author:Judy Collins

“I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.”

Hard Wonderful Wonderful Times

Author:LeAnn Rimes

“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.”

Funny Marriage Wife Witty My Wife Paragraph Marriage Jokes

Author:William J. Clinton

“I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.”

Years Sleep New York Bed Paid Frustration Chairs Definite

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.”

Kind Doors Feminist

Author:Lauren Mayberry

“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.”

Wells Kind Stories Funny Literature Understanding Hell Special Drug Police Stations Heroin Houston Smack

Author:Dan Rather

“I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that.”

Firsts Said Might Minutes Okay Blind Over You Grammar Tennessee Not Okay Blind Date

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.”

“I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.”

Ifs Enough Careers Risk Hopefully Ups & Downs

Author:Taylor Kitsch

“I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.”

Love Trying Sometimes Hard Age Easy Difficult Messages Power Of Words Transmission Trying Hard

Author:Faith Ringgold

“I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.”

World Whole Felt Whole World Throat

Author:Frida Kahlo

“I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.”

Way Trying Play Trump Cards

Author:Billy Porter

“I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.”

Needs Looks Kids Purpose Goal Trouble Achieve

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I had something to fight for, and I was fighting for the love of my life. I couldn’t give up or give in—not now. Not after all I’d been through—all we’d been through.”

Romance Love Hurts Love Romance Fighting For Love

Author:Shanora Williams, 100 Proof

“I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.”

Wanted Player Brother Musician California Get Better My Brother Exhausted Stewardship Avenues Institute Detroit

Author:Chad Smith

“I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18-years-old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.”

People Years Littles Stories Happens Stuff Boring Japan 21st Birthday

Author:Sarah Wright

“I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.”

Men Taken He Man Stags

Author:Leigh Bardugo

“I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.”

Garbage Digging

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I had spent a lot of time in Lee County and Fort Myers.”

Time Storm County Hurricane Ian Lot Spent Lee Fort Myers

Author:Steven Magee

“I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.”

Ifs Two Three Voice Hours Months One Day Anxiety Provoking Garage Three Months

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I had spent all that time wishing I could magically get better, when I just had to make things better for myself. I had to stop trying to be something I wasn't. I had to stop hating myself and thinking about all the ways I was wrong. I had to stop calling myself Psycho Sara. My name was Sara Malvern, and I wasn't very normal at all.”

Self Esteem Self Love Self Worth Accepting Yourself

Author:Wesley King

Source: Sara and the Search for Normal

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