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“I was always crazy even before the drugs.”

“I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.”

Way Kind Use Problem Wanted Left Language Genre Prose Spokes Editors Artificial Editing Stubborn Left Alone Adverse Ukrainian Deference

Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.”

Motivation Acting Intention Curious

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.”

Feels May Persons Eye Anxiety Mouths Lawyer Curious Accents

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.”

Certain Marketing Curious

Author:Simon Sinek

“I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.”

Dies Heaven Curious

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.”

White Kings Curious Jungle

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.”

People Character Wanted Felt Cutting Dialogue Things In Life Redundant Rehearsing

Author:Donna Mills

“I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem.”

Writing Stills Cutting Jokes Notebook

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.”

Dancing Specialty Acrobatics

Author:Betsey Johnson

“I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.”

Bigs Singing Productions Broadway Daydreaming

Author:Kate Smith

“I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.”

Reason Growing Up Growing Cried Morose

Author:Amanda Hocking

“I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.”

Ifs World Way Writing Book Force Mystery Cat Solve Determined One Way Resorts

Author:Ned Beauman

“I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.”

Should Race Policy Determined

Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.”

Ifs Building Industry Dad My Dad Determined Footballer

Author:Steven Gerrard

“I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories and for some reason people would listen.”

People Ideas Reason Stories Stage Creating Throwing Back When Creating Stories

Author:Mike Mayhall

“I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.”

Wanted Film Figures University Mediums Appetite Ceramics

Author:Marcel Dzama

“I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that kid of stuff. I'd paint birds. Anything that moved, stuff like that.”

Years Kids Stuff Four Painting Bird Moved Paint Oil Four Years Pencils Crayon

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.”

People Revolutionary Subservient

Author:Charles Mingus

“I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.”

Hands Used Walks Streets Football Brother Basketball Projects My Brother Racing Contests Playing Football Handstands

Author:Florence Griffith Joyner

“I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.”

Writing Found Composer Broadway Impressive Berlin Writing Music Gershwin Broadway Musical

Author:Marvin Hamlisch

“I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.”

Culture Social Expression Type

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.”

People Feels Wanted I Realized My Thoughts Consumed

Author:John Swihart

“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.”

Ifs Art Ideas Eye Wanted Acting Study Alive College Serious Theater No Idea Performing Related If I Could Links Cowboy Examining Fireman

Author:Billy Crystal

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.”

Way Stills Sun Rich Records Rocks Roots Credit This Day Nashville Memphis Bluegrass Hillbilly

Author:Steve Young

“I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.”

Girl Tough Tough Girl

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.”

Men Firsts Guy Actors Teacher Wonderful New York My Favorite Studios Als Charlie Institute Wonderful Man

Author:Karen Allen

“I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.”

People Years Dream Jesus Sports Powerful Remembered Iron Motivational Sports Dictator Impressed Very Powerful Bodybuilding

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I was always drowning in my own humanity, forever a spectator to the love and oneness I had heard stories about, like I had been sent away from the party for wearing the wrong clothes. But in this moment, I realized no one had the authority to send me away. There was no doorman. I was the doorman. Hell, I was the party.”

Love Spirituality Self Esteem

Author:Pete Holmes

Source: Comedy Sex God

“I was always eating the subsidized food from the high altitude cafeteria in professional astronomy. It was free, so I would eat it. The food was low quality at every astronomical observatory I worked at.”

Cafeteria Worked High Altitude Professional Astronomy Always Eating Astronomical Observatory Low Quality Eat It It Was Free Subsidized Food

Author:Steven Magee

“I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.”

Two Seems Together Sadness Sick Silly Hated Two Things Melancholy Stomach Entering Claws So Sick Beaks

Author:David Foster Wallace

Source: The Broom of the System: A Novel

“I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.”

Mother Parent Dad My Friends My Dad Suits Flats Punk Embarrassed Hippie Pumps Cozy Jumpers

Author:Shirley Manson

“I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

“I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.”

Self Animal Views Involved Terrible Point Of View Empathetic

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.”

Shows Turns Actors Grows Growing Up Tvs Towns Movie Tv Shows Enamored

Author:Scott Wolf

“I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.”

People Way Writing Trying Moments Stories Would Be Together Enjoy Levels Acting Roles Involved Lucky Combination Entertaining Right Way Enjoying The Moment

Author:Anthony Edwards

“I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.”

Ifs Thinking

Author:William Monahan

“I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: "As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept in eloquence? answered, Delivery: What is the second? Delivery: What is the third? Delivery: so if you ask me concerning the precepts of the Christian religion, I will answer, first, second, and third, Humility.”

Quotes Christianity Humility

Author:John Calvin

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!”

Thinking Term Acting Paper Training Papers Explaining Term Paper

Author:Greg Kinnear

“I was always exploring relationships between art and science.”

Art Exploring Art And Science

Author:Ariel Garten

“I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.”

People Curious

Author:George Lucas

“I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.”

Futility Powerlessness

Author:Vanessa Veselka

“I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.”

World Language Space Sentences Fascinated

Author:Vito Acconci

“I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.”

Trying Father Interest Technology Fascinated Engineering Always Trying

Author:James Cameron

Source: James Cameron: Interviews

“I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.”

Knows World Stills Stories Fantasy Everyday Demon Fairy Fascinated Goddess Magician Enchantment Fairy Stories Gods And Goddesses

Author:Christopher Lee

“I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.”

People Want Death Fascinated Forbidden Forbidden Things

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all”

People Normal Fascinated Weirdness Being Weird

Author:Johnny Depp

“I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.”

Country Bills Clinton Fascinated

Author:Joe Scarborough

“I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'”

Shows Lost Stars Space Fiction Science Fiction Fascinated

Author:Michael P. Anderson

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