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“I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.”

Book States Turns Talent Bigger Complicated Finished Abandoned Nervousness

Author:Jonathan Coe

“I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.”

Cash Bob Dylan Carter Haggard

Author:Iris DeMent

“I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.”

Three Bits Four Raised Fingers Fishes Meals Extras Eggs Plastic Mum Inclination Tomatoes Pasta Tin Scotch Cubes Cucumbers Cheddar

Author:Paloma Faith

“I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!”

Made Christian House Hours Week Months Models Nine Nine Months Dior

Author:Lauren Hutton

“I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.”

Dream Film Taking Pictures

Author:Steven Sebring

“I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.”

People Film Difficult Realizing White One Thing Feet Mountain Towers

Author:Glenn Ford

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”

Littles Home Kids Comedy Drama Neighborhood Twelve

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.”

Movement Independent

Author:Jason Patric

“I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.”

Firsts Jobs Young Accepted Minimum Restless Great Times Minimum Wage Had A Great Time Bigger And Better Things

Author:Eva Longoria

“I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.”

Ifs Care Choices Take Care Teeth Our Family Making Choices

Author:Josh Lucas

“I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.”

Years Causes Difficult Stress Comeback

Author:Marat Safin

“I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.”

Film Common Marketing Advertising Filmmaker Greece

Author:Yorgos Lanthimos

“I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.”

Years Film

Author:Renny Harlin

“I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.”

Firsts Use Serious Cocaine Reproach Recommendations

Author:Sigmund Freud

Source: Psychological writings and letters

“I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.”

Ifs Hands Cutting Workers Guitar Metals Sheets

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.”

Knows Men Faces Found Kissing Making Love

Author:Anita Loos

“I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone.”

Night Wife Dating Phones My Wife Making Love Funny Relationship

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now."”

Said Humor Funny Hate Girl Morning Cry I Hate Making Love Hate You This Girl Hate Myself I Hate Myself

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I was making Marvel Studios movies, Amy Pascal was running Sony. Occasionally, she would share drafts with certain people at the studio and I would read them, and see cuts of the movies. But what I've learned with is that I'm no help whatsoever giving passive comments on other people's projects.”

People Giving Helping Running Cutting Share Comment Passive

Author:Kevin Feige

“I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.”

Way Looks Stills Seems Jokes Mirrors Appearance

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.”

World Mean Art Reason Interest Attention Economy Calling No Reason Conventions Apology Transparent Art World Vested Interests

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly-swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.”

Humor Funny Comedy I Realized Kitchen I'm Sorry Crushed Flew Pancakes Roommate Blueberries Spatulas

Author:Demetri Martin

“I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.”

World Long Photography Photographer Photograph

Author:Marcey Jacobson

Source: Cargo Del Tiempo

“I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.”

Knows Care

Author:David A. Siegel

“I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.”

Thinking Kind Guy Stuff Saws Fronts Changed Band Babe Sticker

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.”

Knows Trying Happens Games Appreciate Corners Nfl Mediocre Receiver Trash Talk Trash Talking

Author:Richard Sherman

“I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.”

Doe Problem Causes Editors Circulation Business Problems National Lampoon

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I was many things, but I wasn't a quitter. I didn't give up, and I wasn't going to start.”

Giving Up Comics Resiliency Dc Comics Superman Reporter Lois Lane Fallout

Author:Gwenda Bond

Source: Fallout

“I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.”

Ends Remember Boys Terrible Mad Impulse Cute Unconscious Impulse Control Very Cute Mad At Him Cute Boy

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.”

Father Married Divorced

Author:Placido Domingo

“I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.”

Writing Firsts Said Song Wife Band Married Balls My Wife Divorced

Author:Bon Scott

“I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.”

Young Felt Church Wife Married Catholic My Wife Trapped Divorced

Author:Don Adams

“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”

“I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.”

Years Wanted Married Senses Sober Divorced

Author:Danny Bonaduce

“I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.”

Years Enough Share Married Dirty Nasty Underwear

Author:Martha Stewart

“I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.”

Years Married

Author:Quincy Jones

“I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.”

Years Long Two Married Seven Two Years Strings Seven Years Divorced Fling Long Relationship

Author:Sutton Foster

“I was married once before, and I stopped.”

Married Funny Marriage

Author:Marc Maron

“I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.”

Years Funny Marriage Fire Havens Prove Married Proof Destroyed San Francisco Earthquakes Certificates

Author:W. C. Fields

“I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it”

Mind States Married State Of Mind Divorced

Author:Black Thought

“I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.”

Feels Married

Author:Eleanor Powell

“I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.”

Love Home Peace Married Scientist Peaceful Providing Happy Home

Author:Frederick Sanger

“I was married to my dreams, but my nightmares filled for divorce anyway.”

Marriage Dreams Friends Divorce Quote Of The Day Anthony T Hincks Husband And Wife Nightmares Valentine S Day

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.”

Wanted Lost Identity Married Adults Responsible

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I was married to the moon as he was to the sun. My dark, his radiance and how we both seemed to soothe. We were two, divided by his ocean and lost under my twilight.”

Love Life Stars Relationship Moon Ocean Metaphor This Planet

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.”

Numbers Married All Time Douchebags

Author:Brandi Glanville

“I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.”

People Age Young Sleep Class Middle Married Middle Class Divorced Couches Middle Class Life

Author:John Lithgow

“I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.”

Romance Married

Author:Gloria Swanson

“I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.”

Four Baby Married

Author:Loretta Lynn

“I was marrying someone I loved because I didn't want to lose them; I didn't see anything wrong with that.”

Author:Liza Monroy

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