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Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.”

Feelings Age Felt Driven Old Age Ripe

Author:Debbie Harry

“I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.”

Kind Helping Home Earth Grows Love Is Growing Grew Grew Up Garden All Kinds Kitchen Farms Vegetables Worms Gardener Scrap Compost Vegetable Garden Growing Things Great Garden

Author:Curtis Stone

“I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.”

Film Television Theater Nuts Diehard

Author:Robert Knepper

“I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.”

Ran Florence

Author:Wilma Rudolph

“I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.”

Knows Should Guy Interesting Pay Behinds Brain Creative Mouths Leaving Dear Call Me Gears Behind You

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.”

Despair Bottom Realising

Author:Trent Reznor

“I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.”

Ifs Said Waiting Voice Sleep Kissing Forgiving Ugly Forgive Me Slumber Sleeping Beauty

Author:John Flanagan

“I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.”

Self Philosophy Belief Magic Style Pride Limits Luck Self Confidence Limitation Good Luck

Author:Grace Jones

“I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight”

World Writing Book

Author:James Levine

“I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.”

Two Ideas Today Jobs Dies Teach Theater Tired Yesterday Ballet I'm Tired Waitress Cleveland Salesperson Two Jobs

Author:Maya Angelou

“I thought Id be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.”

Kind Self Whole Stars Rocks Hair Red Rabbits Rock Star Sense Of Self Swagger Edgy Jessica

Author:Candice Accola

“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

People Ifs Needs Years Children States Done Running Results Involved Six Legs Reform Senate Foster Children Minnesota Education Reform

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Country Reason Play Light Might Can Do Successful Legs Crafts Therapy Friendly Makers Sunny Can Do Something Money Maker

Author:Christopher Durang

“I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.”

Ifs Stuff Models If I Could

Author:Michael Biehn

“I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.”

Ifs Humans Wanted Conditions Cat If I Could Human Condition Convincing

Author:Jim Davis

“I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Kind Enough Together Film Principles Comedy Drama If I Could Charlie Woody Stand Up Comedy Chaplin

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.”

Ifs Inspirational Faces Forever Worst Danger Triumph If I Could Over It

Author:Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise how fun it is to make people laugh.”

People Fun Laughing Realising Awkward Making People Laugh

Author:Josie Long

“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.”

Healing Identity Memory Finding Yourself Lyrics Brokenness Dissociation Lyrics In A Song Finding Oneself Identity Confusion Lyrics Of The Heart

Author:Miranda Lambert

Source: Miranda Lambert - Revolution

“I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.”

People Ifs Mean War Grows Growing Up Horrible If I Could Aggressive Apes

Author:Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

“I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.”

Ifs Believe Order Turns Path Okay Chaos Cures Delirium

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.”

People Ifs Want Whole Three Felt Numbers Records Journey Forgotten Albums Divided Overwhelming My Journey Easily Forgotten

Author:Dawn Angelique

“I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.”

Ifs Mean Book Would Be Turns Four Following Being True Logical

Author:Steve Martin

“I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.”

Ifs Different Whole Would Be Perfect Careers Hair Noses Straight Hair

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.”

Ifs Would Be Lost Band Sticks Workers Metals Sheets

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”

Reality Truth Secret True Tell Wide Sargasso Sea

Author:Jean Rhys

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.”

People Ifs Different Wanted Accepting Too Much Serious Needed Different Things Take Me Private Life Accept Me

Author:John Corbett

“I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.”

People Ifs May Form Born Land Research Crafts

Author:Sebastian Barry

“I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes when you write a book, people think you're an expert and that's not always true.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Book Sometimes Helping Realizing Honest Reader Experts

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.”

Ifs Knows Know Me

Author:Jared Harris

“I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?”

Ifs Men Years Young Mother Fighting Son Burden Young Man My Son Tempted Eighteen Tempting Eighteen Years Old

Author:Nadine Labaki

“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.”

Ifs Get Away Oasis Abba

Author:Pete Waterman

“I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with.”

Politics Interesting Self Criticism Self Change

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: the bell jar

“I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with. And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.”

Ifs Way Enough Might Faces Sleep Interesting Boys Structure Faults Bones Like Me Find Me Buddy Ordinariness Famous Writers

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: the bell jar

“I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell other people what they should do.”

People

Author:David Holmgren

“I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Half Trouble Century Late Climate Obvious Other Half Co2 Heating

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.”

Ifs Years War Positive Killing

Author:Maya Angelou

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