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“I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.”

People Want Done Fall Audience Cutting Theater Edges Cutting Edge Boulders Falling Asleep

Author:Diane Paulus

“I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.”

Writing Block Educate Writer's Block

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.”

Care Female Etc Pregnancy Educate Circumcision Gynecology

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.”

Firsts Term Roles Worst Directors Hollywood Endure Discrimination Producers Mexican Racial Discrimination Worst Times

Author:Salma Hayek

“I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.”

Father Destruction Difficulty Bankruptcy

Author:Brendan Coyle

“I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.”

Path Right Path

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?”

Wanted Fall Bullets Pacifist

Author:Otto Dix

“I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.”

Faces Challenges Sacrifice Journey Difficulty Injury

Author:Gabby Douglas

“I had to face it - there were warning signs I chose to ignore when I first fell in love with him”

Blind Love

Author:Holly Peterson

“I had to face my worst fears, to find the force of faith.”

Christian Faith Worst Lailah Gifty Akita Affirmations Fears Dont Quit Inner Stength

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the “half closet.”

Facts Problem Wanted Faces Secret Half Gay Praise Supposed To Be Closets Props Gay Friend

Author:Tina Fey

“I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.”

Facts Body Faces Hate Bits Shapes I Hate Pears

Author:Charlotte Bingham

“I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.”

Way Art Faces Jesus Possibility Tradition Holistic Art Of Living

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.”

Faces My Own Crowns

Author:Frank Langella

“I had to fake it until I made it, but sadly, I never made it until today.”

Self Esteem Inner Peace Mental Illness Young Adult Fiction Teen Fiction Family Drama Eating Disorders Life Experiences Struggles Quotes Anxiety Disorders

Author:Charlena E. Jackson

Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside

“I had to fall back and rethink and get into the studio and listen to real r&b music. This is what I do and this is what I need to do.”

Needs Real Fall Studios Fall Back

Author:Tony Sunshine

“I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”

Ifs Want Humor Funny Faces Courses Asks Interest Dating Loud Nonsense No Friends

Author:Chelsea Handler

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.”

Fighting Left Beats Bases

Author:Ty Cobb

“I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!”

Needs Sometimes Fighting Curse

Author:Scott Snyder

“I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.”

Men Made Hard Would Be Fighting Black Mistake Loneliness Acceptance Respect Abuse

Author:Jackie Robinson

“I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.”

Want Hard Hands Wanted Fighting My Own Destiny Struggle Violence Who I Am Cycles This Day Vicious My Destiny Vicious Cycles

Author:Paul Kagame

“I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.”

People Way Beautiful Fighting My Own Half Hell Convince Polish

Author:Janice Dickinson

“I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.”

Whole Fighting Break Circumstances Whole Life Makeup Break Out

Author:Hilary Swank

“I had to fight so hard not to cry.”

Hard Fighting Cry

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Helping Fighting Television Intellectual Labels

Author:Dick Cavett

“I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.”

People Men World Way Has Beens Made Eye Faces Fighting Born Church Study Taught Judging Pride Gay Pure Deny Absurd Damn Ashamed Preaching Stigma Gay People Bragging Tag Born This Way

Author:Chavela Vargas

“I had to fight tooth and nail to stay in an industry where I had a lot of problems. I've gone through a lot in my life and have somehow managed by my faith and some great people around me to continue on this journey where I'm at today.”

People Problem Today Fighting Journey Great People

Author:Ty Herndon

“I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.”

Fighting Causes

Author:Adam Levine

“I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.”

World Artist Figures

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.”

Guy Found Figures New York Jazz My Time Apartment Gigs Get Money

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.”

Moving On

Author:Rebecca Forster

Source: Hostile Witness

“I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.”

Has Beens I Can Facts My Own Careers Figures Example Building Dad My Dad Figuring Things

Author:Anthony Evans

“I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.”

Games Figures Golf

Author:Stewart Cink

“I had to figure out what to make for myself as an artist. As a producer you make stuff for all kinds of different people. I was making beats for other artists but not for myself. It was kind of weird.”

People Kind Different Artist Stuff Figures Beats Producers All Kinds Different Peoples

Author:Kid Ink

“I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.”

Knows Men Looks I Can Facts Shapes Dating Size Diets Kicks Chemicals Injection

Author:Patti Stanger

“I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.”

Young Grows Forever Growing Up Forever Young

Author:Portia de Rossi

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.”

Way Mean Wanted Forget Bases Paint Kandinsky

Author:Frank Stella

“I had to find a way to speak without ever saying the 'you' plural.”

Way Speak

Author:Susanne Wuest

“I had to find love & inner peace to embrace my story”

Self Love Inner Peace Inner Strength Life Journey Life Story Self Love Quotes Memoirs Optimism Quotes Embrace Life

Author:Kimberly Anne Bell

Source: The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept & Embrace It All

“I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that?”

People Dies Terrible Sitting Prison Addiction Saved Find Me Heroines Devastation Homies

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when we had depleted our energy resources. The very same Zeus, Inc. that now powered a majority of the known world. And that power had come from the man himself. Without him? We would all be plunged into total darkness, knocked back to the literal dark ages. Chaos could and probably would ensue.”

Fantasy Mythology Crime Drama

Author:Robin Burks

Source: Zeus, Inc.

“I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.”

Way Book Bigs Reading Screens Comic My Way Excitement Translate Comic Book Big Screen

Author:Ang Lee

“I had to find the courage to turn my life around.”

Turns

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I had to first convince them [prostitutes] that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them they wouldn't necessarily care for or who would victimize them. You know, journalists come and go. If they come twice, it's a lot. But I come 10 times and hang out with them and share stuff. If you connect with someone just once, that's something. But if you can connect twice, that's something else.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Care Stuff Share Notion Journalist Convince Hanging Out Comes And Goes

Author:Michael Glawogger

“I had to first travel through the darkest valleys in my life to begin seeking the summit of my Soul!”

Love Quotes Positive Happy

Author:Positively Sherry

“I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.”

Character Focus Paid Bagger

Author:Will Smith

“I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.”

Littles Bits Focus Little Bit Areas Privacy Personal Grooming

Author:Mario Vazquez

“I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.”

Wisdom Folly Individuation

Author:C.G. Jung

“I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.”

Children Lost Force Protective Lost Ones

Author:Diane Ladd

“I had to free myself from my devotion to him... to us... without losing my ability to believe in love.”

Love Relationships Devotion

Author:Jennifer Harrison

Source: Write like no one is reading

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