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“I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.”

Thinking Writing Wells I Can Stories Deals Come Up Beard

Author:Iain Banks

“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.”

Kids August Road Trips Samuel Beckett Car Trips

Author:Lev Grossman

“I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.”

Night Hours Week Car Six Europe Train Hotel Every Night Vans

Author:Lee Konitz

“I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.”

People Creativity

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.”

Ifs I Can Jobs Actors Committed I've Learned Do The Best

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.”

Ifs I Can Enough Party Laughing Pieces Fans Lucky Puzzles Invited Grimace

Author:Adam Baldwin

“I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.”

People Feels Artist Rap

Author:Fetty Wap

“I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.”

Long Jobs Lucky Musician

Author:Paul Young

“I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.”

Left Bears Normal Average

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.”

Giving Jobs Night Lord Every Night

Author:Cody Johnson

“I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.”

Ends My Own Deny The End Of The Day Grind

Author:Donnis

“I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.”

Trying Looks I Can Different Jobs Can Do Records Materials

Author:George Strait

“I just cosplay being an adult.”

Author:Jennie Breeden

“I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.”

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.”

Dream Would Be Kids Happened Compton

Author:Serena Williams

“I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.”

People Writing Trying Years Believe Littles Stills Bits Minutes Little Bit Regard Pops Pretentious

Author:Pete Townshend

“I just could not leave the people who ever fill my heart. But if people leave, well, like today myself. That's why I'm afraid to get acquainted with a lot of people because I'm afraid of losing a lot of people too. In reality I always get acquainted with many people, how is this?”

Friends Lonely Memory

Author:Vea Dreamer

“I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.”

“I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.”

Feels Believe Character Feelings Felt Can Do Havens Understood Scripts Passionate Connected Forests Fallen Lap Thirteen Wrestler

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.”

Shows Light Suicide

Author:Judd Nelson

“I just couldn't have people thinking that I only believe thin is beautiful. Thin is beautiful, but it's not the only kind of beautiful. I didn't want people to get the wrong message because of some retouching.”

People Thinking Believe Kind Beautiful

Author:Crystal Renn

“I just couldn't live without dogs”

Author:Tara Reid

“I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.”

Certain Style Excellence Grades Hacks

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.”

Moving History Seats Civil Rights Movement Glue

Author:Claudette Colvin

“I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.”

Ifs Want Firsts Facts School Class Study Homework Skip First Class

Author:Randy Travis

“I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.”

People Thinking Enough My Friends Old People Landmines

Author:Jackie Chan

“I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.”

School Practice Four Shapes Guitar Necks Strings Desks Chords

Author:Alvin Lee

“I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent.”

Pay Careers Lucky

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I just create, that's what I do.”

Author:Patti LuPone

“I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.”

Actors Stuff My Favorite Stranger Crushed Harbour

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“I just decided something. Your instructor is hotter than any of the Archangels. For real. I just changed your contact name from Leigh to Lucky Bitch.”

Humor Afterlife Angels Samurai Archangel Young Adult Fantasy Romance Nerdy Girl School For Spirits

Author:Aron Lewes

Source: School For Spirits

“I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.”

World Want Enough Easy Decided Active Academic

Author:Betty Friedan

“I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.”

People Ifs Knows Way Children Sound Decided Raises Selfish Right Thing Professional Life

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.”

School Film Training Decided Profession Film School

Author:Michael Moore

“I just desperately wanted to be happy again in a way that wasn't forced. I wanted to feel like I accomplished something. I did this. I finished this record. I'm doing all the promo. I'm doing everything that I said I was going to do. I really wanted to be happy and normalized and I was tired of people saying I was volatile. I'm not. I'm a pretty normal person. I have problems like anyone else but I've worked so hard to be OK and I don't think that I gave myself enough credit for that.”

People Thinking Way Feels Persons Said Hard Enough Problem Wanted Records Normal Tired Credit Finished Accomplished Happy Again

Author:Michael Angelakos

“I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.”

Humans Character Today Film Human Beings Watches Comic Closest Timing Sophisticated Amazed Cartoon Cartoon Character Busters

Author:John Lasseter

“I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when I say, at the vast majority of shows, they loved it. There were encores, there were standing ovations.”

Different Shows America Lying Cities Europe Standing Majority Canada Exaggerating Ovation Encores

Author:David Cross

“I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.”

Stories Love Story Dramatic Phenomenon

Author:Ang Lee

“I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning feeling great and go to bed feeling miserable, because dinner would be cucumbers, kale, and dressing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about?”

“I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.”

Thinking Men Kind Sin Cities Scene Extraordinary Excited Gentleman Rays Very Cool Sin City Amazing Man

Author:Juno Temple

“I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.”

Children Book Earth Brother My Children Picture Books

Author:Cornelia Funke

“I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that Ive had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitzs play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.”

Has Beens Play Three New York Months Privilege Three Months Best Experiences

Author:Bob Saget

“I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.”

Ifs Should Years Stills Parent Roles Models Asking Spread Role Models Email Maxims

Author:Danica McKellar

“I just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman.”

Thinking Long Long Time Producers Harry Potter Adore Terrific Potters

Author:Maggie Smith

“I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.”

Bills Gates Ads Microsoft Slap

Author:Jon Heder

“I just did an arc with Warren Ellis - and no one else on the planet could get away with this, because I think this is like harassment? - But Warren felt like there was a depiction of Spider-Woman where it looked like her waist perhaps didn't contain any internal organs. And he suggested very quietly ... 'You should fix that, or else I will come to your house and nail your feet to the floor and set your house on fire.' ... And it totally got fixed!”

Thinking Should House Felt Fire Feet Planets Fixed Internals Get Away Organs Nails Comic Book Spiders Arcs Harassment Like Her Depiction

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.”

Water Drink Spring Beer Interviews Whisky Spring Water

Author:Brad Delson

“I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.”

Mistake Twenties France Teenager Making Mistakes Exploring Being Free

Author:Molly Ringwald

“I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.”

Media Policy Sexuality Personal Life Hygiene

Author:Greg Louganis

“I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.”

Author:Lee Hazlewood