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“I was always told that Hoosier came from when settlers in the state, when a stranger came on their property they'd say, "Who's there? Who's there?" So people that were from Indiana were the people that said "Who's there?" But what do I know? I don't read or interact with people outside the Internet.”

People Knows Said States Internet Property Stranger Indiana Settlers Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.”

People Enough Tough Nfl Skinny American Football

Author:Joe Theismann

“I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.”

People Way Said Different Company Records Groups Strange Band Let Me Cheesy Record Companies

Author:Mika

“I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.”

People Mean

Author:Mike Trout

“I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.”

Ifs Mind Helping Stuck Working It Being Famous

Author:Naomi Campbell

“I was always told to be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a wh--e in the bedroom.”

Cooks Kitchen Bedroom Parlor Cooks In The Kitchen

Author:Melissa Gorga

“I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.”

Ifs Play Age Young Girl Wish Enjoy Fool If I Could Mature Very Happy Other Girl Young Friends

Author:Maria Callas

“I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.”

Kind Children School Fun Team High School Bus Torn Standing Out

Author:Lauren Graham

“I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.”

Three Week Revolution Wall Convinced

Author:Mick Farren

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.”

Ifs Reason Funny Born Morality Expectations Humorous Argument Treated Opposition My Best Friend Great Expectations Great Expectations Important Havisham Miss Havisham

Author:Charles Dickens

“I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.”

Trying Fit Standards Mold Always Trying

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.”

People Thinking Trying Different School Hated Different Things Always Trying

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.”

Trying Parent Balance Chaos Incredibles Always Trying

Author:Soleil Moon Frye

“I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.”

Trying Looks Two Hours Natural Morning Dresses Modest Always Trying Labs

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.”

People Way Trying Deals Size Unusual Always Trying

Author:Linda Hunt

“I was always trying to perform, but never with some dream to be on the stage. The stage was wherever I was standing at the time. I was lucky that the department of education in Sydney had a program where you could try out for these ensembles - kind of like extra-curricular sports, but for little drama kids. I got into that system, and it took me right through high school.”

Trying Kind Dream Kids School Sports Drama Lucky High School Program

Author:Jai Courtney

“I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.”

Trying Guy Choices Asks Stuff Waiting Pride Baby Picks Prey Always Trying

Author:Patti Smith

“I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.”

Trying Art Interesting Photograph Boring Most Interesting Always Trying Snapshots

Author:Janet Malcolm

“I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.”

World Trying Winning Lost Relationship Always Trying Lost You

Author:Neil Diamond

“I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.”

Trying Character Action Pure Sensitive Always Trying Action Movie

Author:Christopher Lambert

“I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.”

Law Parent Born Married Broke Unlawful

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes.”

Flirting Womanly Wiles Comediennes Romantic Failures

Author:Joan Sims

Source: High spirits

“I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.”

Knows Firsts House Know How Brother Kitchen Orchestra Drummer Kitchen Sinks

Author:Dave Brubeck

“I was always very comfortable with who I was. Confident. I’ve never looked at [my body] in a negative way.”

Way Body Comfortable Negative

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.”

Acting Creative Dancing

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!”

People Mother Please Mouths Curious Staring

Author:Rebecca Miller

“I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.”

Men Important Young Reading Mets Curious Young Man Indifferent

Author:Paul Auster

“I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.”

Knows Stuff Travel Let Me Determined Ambitious

Author:Rachel Stevens

“I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.”

Children Young Husband Our Children Determined My Husband

Author:Jane Asher

“I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.”

Children Use Pay Watches My Family Performances Dramatic Savvy

Author:Margot Robbie

“I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.”

Years Shows Couple Years Ago Grateful Ems Anniversary Hee Haw

Author:Buck Owens

“I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.”

Thinking Years Sports Ability Independent Theatre

Author:Jack Wagner

“I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.”

Long Term Careers Long Term Tennis

Author:Sally Ride

“I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.”

Different Sports Challenges Walks Growing Up Growing Shoes Different Things

Author:Emily Bett Rickards

“I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.”

Thinking Grows Shy Weary Hang Ups Being Shy

Author:Steve Martin

“I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.”

Strong Math Physics Very Strong Calculus

Author:Debi Thomas

“I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.”

Years Half Feet Height Insecure

Author:Joan Smalls

“I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.”

People Painting Impatient

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director." He went, "Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out."”

Knows Feelings Waiting Secret Mistake Figures Directors Making Mistakes Always Waiting

Author:Paul Bettany

“I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.”

Conversation Standing Actresses Standing There Looking Pretty

Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“I was always weak in the head—that must be it. I can't seem to care anymore about what I'm supposed to do.”

Depression Weak Depressed Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox

Author:Helen Oyeyemi

Source: Mr. Fox

“I was always wild territory buried below manicured lawns and once I had ripped pretty flowers from the careful parts of me unearthed keening once I left the whole damn thing open to the sky I touched a place in me too Wild to ever pull weeds again or water plastic grass again or prop the baby tree with sticks again or call my soul cultivated again I was never going down that way”

Heretics In The Direction Of You Heretic Daughter Never Going Down That Way

Author:Stephanie Greene

“I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .”

Littles Helping Might Happens Wanted Willing Help Me

Author:Count Basie

“I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.”

Giving My Own Deals Acceptance Willing Give Me Burden Shoulders Getting Along

Author:Raquel Welch

“I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.”

World Kind Security Mom Eating Tables Dinner Nine Chinese Clock Sensitive Schedules Baths Single Mom Hyper Dinner Table Bohemian Chinese Food

Author:Brooke Shields

“I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?”

Firsts Feelings Wonder Minutes Ten Eating Heavenly Fast Food Eating Fast Food

Author:Wilmer Valderrama

“I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.”

Done Night Reading Late Always Working

Author:Frank Caliendo

“I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.”

Writing Trying Style Ego Judgment Let Me Accomplish Memoir Worried Adopted Dishonesty Factual

Author:Dan Burt

“I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.”

Ifs Issues Comedy Mood Worried What If

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.”

Skills Music Is Tradition

Author:King Krule

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