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“I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.”

“I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.”

“I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.”

Beautiful Used Dark Car Blue Unusual Dark Blue

Author:Andrew Davies

“I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.”

Ifs Want Trying Said Done Kids Used Courses Crazy Minutes Notion Photographer Driven

Author:Diane Arbus

“I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.”

Remember Used Courses Speech Carnegie

Author:Bill Peterson

“I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.”

Life Thoughts New Year Lives Rewrite 2 V C Andrews Landry Pearl In The Mist Rewritten

Author:V.C. Andrews

“I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can do it all on the road and that has been a huge difference that has happened in 2016. It is the only way for me to really balance. There is a lot of overhead, but it's a big investment towards being a dad and a husband, which is ultimately my number one goal.”

Way Writing Has Beens I Can Home Bigs Used Song Goal Can Do Differences Numbers Records Happened Huge Balance Dad Husband Investment Coming Home Tape I Can Do It Overhead New Songs Being A Dad

Author:Granger Smith

“I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.”

Would Be Used Reading Jesus Church Lord Like You Letters Hot Dear Saint Glasses Nervous Hey Weekend Printed Corinthians Saint Paul

Author:Jim Gaffigan

Source: Dad Is Fat

“I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.”

Thinking Way Self Play Wanted Used Artist Actors Knowing Taken Talent Comfortable Sexuality Cracks Disguise Diminish Thespians Trotting

Author:Halle Berry

“I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.”

Thinking I Can Used Force Focus Okay Yeah

Author:Nancy Johnson

“I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.”

Used Mask Rubber Free Time Allowance

Author:Rick Baker

“I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.”

Thinking Used Connected Awful

Author:Hilarie Burton

“I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.”

People Firsts Littles Light Kids School Used Sun Saws Theater Dust Gas Mask Movie Theater Gas Masks

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.”

Used Felt Audience Trouble Fronts Uncomfortable

Author:Robert Goulet

“I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.”

Way Giving Stories Used Strange Reporters Right Way Old Days

Author:Joe Arpaio

“I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.”

Two Feelings Used Five Headache Espresso Feeling Great

Author:Hugo Weaving

“I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.”

Used Knowing Seeing Very Good Sixth Sense

Author:Chris Pronger

“I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.”

Book Used Courses Practice Magic Feet New York Stores Encounters Unexpected Shelves Crowded Used Books

Author:Saul Williams

“I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.”

People Wells I Can Used Turns Return Rounds Volley Underachieving

Author:Andy Roddick

“I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.”

People Hard Helping Used Asks Dad My Dad Selling Eggs

Author:Lynne Truss

“I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.”

Ifs Men Helping Hands Today Used Jail Gloves Sausage Granddaddy

Author:Jimmy Dean

“I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.”

Matter Hard Helping Age Used Animal Hard Work Baby No Matter What Driving Farms Dedicated Cows Grandfather Pigs Crops My Grandfather Tractors

Author:Tyson Chandler

“I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.”

Made Helping Today Used Father Strong Summer Tough Nfl Bricks Catching Bricklayers

Author:Jerry Rice

“I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I am the sun from Teletubbies. There has been quite a few people pretending to be 'the sun' but only I could tell you the real story. Everyone says they can see the likeness between my face now and me as a baby. I still have a baby face. I haven't changed much either. I am still giggly.”

People Has Beens Stills Real Stories Faces Used Sun Havens Changed Baby My Friends Encouragement University Pretending Real Story I Haven't Changed

Author:Jess Smith

“I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.”

Writing Real Used Emotion Hiding Teenage Real Emotion Mimi

Author:John Lennon

“I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.”

Light Used Kitchen Marble Cockroaches

Author:Young Jeezy

“I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.”

Used Wind Determine Fiery

Author:Alda Merini

Source: Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini

“I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.”

Matter Used Views Satisfaction True Happiness

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'”

People Used Accepting Like You Offended

Author:Trick Daddy

“I used to hold you as my everything, And so I built my castles in your lands, But you proved to me your inadequacies, With this, how will my castles stand?”

Pain Joy Life Lessons Understanding Relationships Learning Heroes Mentors

Author:Terrence Alonzo Craft

Source: The Seed Bridge: Collected Poems

“I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.”

Lasts Used

Author:Bob Goff

“I used to hunt for shooting stars. To know they had traveled billions of miles, just to burn and be over in a matter of seconds… that was what mattered to me, really. Not the brightness or the wishes… Just, you know? To see the end of such well-travelled nomads. I didn't want them to die alone.”

Death Space Shooting Stars Nomads

Author:M.N. Arzu

Source: The Librarian: A First Contact Story

“I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.”

Way Feels Done Used Asks Hurt Deserve Adversity Preparing

Author:Eden Phillpotts

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

Used Imagine Adventure

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can't even describe that feeling. That's why I like the best - the best cars, the best food, the best watches.”

I Can Feelings Used Watches Imagine Car Rain Driving Gym Vegas Ferrari Dublin Best Food

Author:Conor McGregor

“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.”

Would Be Used Imagine Brown

Author:Emmitt Smith

“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the only ones with power to intercede with the gods. Now it has been so long since I fantasized a magical rescue that I can barely remember the intensity of that longing. Instead, I feel my own strength, take pleasure in the company of friends, male and female, who are mortals. I no longer believe in gods, except those in each of us.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy

“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”

“I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.”

Stills Running Used Gratitude Grateful Lists Used To Be Knees Ran Be Grateful Things To Be Grateful

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very slowly for pretty good money. So the idea of writing really quickly for free offends me.”

Writing Years Believe Ideas Used Training Jokes Good Money

Author:George Saunders

“I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'”

Men Years Kids Used Culture Black Race Brother Married Jokes Black Women Adopted Black Culture Black Race

Author:Tommy Chong

“I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.”

Has Beens Whole Used Actors Process Jokes Mark Instinct Hitting Clicks Trust Your Instincts

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.”

Trying Used Jokes Sells

Author:John Waters

“I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.”

Ifs Used Acting Jokes Work Out

Author:Merritt Wever

“I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.”

Ifs Want Looks Kind I Can Reason Used Clothes Jokes Contemporary Suits Decent Motor Trousers

Author:Bill Nighy

“I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state of affairs was not that you did not get to do what you wanted---sometimes you did---but the effort to appease or resist the reigning deities left you so exhausted that it prevented you from ever really having fun. To this day having fun, just plain enjoying myself, comes at the cost of a conviction that I have committed an undetected crime.”

Growing Up Mothers And Daughters Dysfunctional Families

Author:Azar Nafisi

Source: Things I've Been Silent About

“I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.”

Wells Art Helping Used Teach Students Doctors Sick

Author:John Baldessari

“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.”

Stories Age Used Father Watches Four Down And Grandfather My Grandfather Daydreaming Watch Movie

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.”

Used Pay Attention Paper Papers Signing

Author:Otis Rush

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