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“I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.”

Kind Book Kids Growing Up Growing Fans Comic Comic Book Superhero

“I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.”

Men Giving Character Actors Company Diversity Circles Good Place Character Actors

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.”

Saws Negative Radical Cynical Lukewarm

Author:Clarence Thomas

“I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.”

Children Rain Window Lonely Sat Lonely Child

Author:Deborah Moggach

“I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips”

Men Ambition Moved Lips Cried Great Ambition

Author:Nicole Krauss

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.”

Needs Feels Military Movement Members Demonstration Pacifist Carried Away

Author:Guido Westerwelle

“I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.”

Ifs Believe Ends Hard Enough Natural Achieve Hard Work

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I was never a nightclub manager or a hostess. I want to make that very clear. I was an executive at my club. I was a director of VIP operations, that's much different than a manager, that's much different than a waitress, it's different than, you know, a host - I was like an executive-level position”

Knows Want Different Levels Clear Position Directors Clubs Managers Operations Executives Host Waitress Nightclubs Hostesses Vip

Author:Rachel Uchitel

“I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.”

Two Actors Gone Mines Friends Studios California Two Friends

Author:Richard Widmark

“I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.”

Persons Junk Junk Food

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.”

Men Stuff California Eastern Pipe Bongs

Author:George Carlin

“I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ...”

Moods Moodiness Nuisances

Author:Kathleen Collins

Source: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

“I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.”

Ifs Sometimes Play Used Girl Sports Wonder Boys Roles Too Much Ought Casts Being The Best Truthful Gears Pretty Girl Sometimes I Wonder Supporting Roles Good Sports

Author:Celia Imrie

“I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders.”

People Long Reason Reality Care Leader Theory Promise Weakness Tests Performances Take Care Command Prisoner Schemes Acid

Author:Mr. Lee

“I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.”

Prisoner

Author:Michel Patini

“I was never a prodigy.”

Prodigies

Author:Lindsay Davenport

“I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.”

Children Genius Prodigies

Author:Mara Wilson

“I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.”

Care Effort

Author:Joseph Haydn

“I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.”

Persons Crazy Drug

Author:Slick Rick

“I was never a rail-thin person.”

Persons Rail

Author:Jessica Capshaw

“I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas.”

“I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.”

I Can Play Stars Rocks Training Concern Instruments Males Singers Frustration Plus Rock Star

Author:Patti Smith

“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.”

Helping Numbers Office Organization Spy

Author:Julia Child

“I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?”

Men Should Three Four Balls Eight Nine Should I Pitcher Strikeouts

Author:Stan Coveleski

“I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.”

Feels Actors Struggle Blessed

Author:Ving Rhames

“I was never a topical songwriter.”

Songwriters

Author:Bob Dylan

“I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.”

Literature Critics Journalist Movie Critic

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!”

Actors Perfect Employee Dependable

Author:John C. Reilly

“I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.”

Firsts Believe Film Strong Acting Roles Saws Stage Type Directors Producers Priests Villain Bizarre Sympathetic

Author:Conrad Veidt

“I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.”

Passionate Wet Policemen

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“I was never a writer.”

Author:Simon Sinek

“I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality.”

Thinking Knows Way I Can Real Reality Able Certain Actors My Own Know How Jokes Performances

Author:Steve Dildarian

“I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.”

Way Love Whole Able Sadness Band Infinite My Favorite Pumpkin Smashing Favorite Bands Collies Smashing Pumpkins

Author:John Wozniak

“I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.”

Way Enough Able School Three Four Ten High School Beer

Author:John Daly

“I was never able to tell if the sight of Iliza was sobering or if it was intoxicating. I just knew that her presence had an undeniable influence on my perception.”

Love Influence Perspective Perception Drunk Sober Presence Intoxicating Sobering

Author:Sean Norris

“I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.”

Writing Able Hero Backgrounds Heroic Firefighter

Author:Robert Sheckley

“I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.”

Certain England Accepted Grandfather My Grandfather New England

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.”

Studios Labels Annoying Rapper Session

Author:JD Era

“I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.”

Fear Hurt Drunk

Author:Chavela Vargas

“I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.”

World Dentist

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?”

Thinking Years Real Choices Courses Experience Fades Flavor Afraid Of Failure Close To Death

Author:Debra Winger

“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

Greatness Failure

Author:John Keats

“I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.”

My Own Ability Attitude Offers Responsible I Realized New Beginnings Afraid Of Failure

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I feel like everything is going to happen then. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I'm always one of the first ones to say, "Let's try that."”

Thinking Want Feels Trying Firsts I Can Happens Remember Young Waiting Sound Wow Getting Old Pretentious

Author:Mario Sorrenti

“I was never afraid of going after what I wanted, and making that known, and being vocal about it.”

Wanted Known Vocal

Author:Lily Collins

“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside. After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.”

World Love Poetry Night Girl Dark Growing Up Society Youth Mom Walking Losing Empty Scared Saving Worried Prose Not Afraid Midnight Break Up Afraid Lose Wandering Prose Poetry At Night

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.”

Light Stage Amplification

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I was never afraid to let you go; you just didn’t belong, and that’s okay.”

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Author:Marion Bekoe

“I was never afraid to step out and make a decision. It might have been the wrong decision. I'm not afraid to tell somebody if I think they're wrong, as long as I know that I'm right. I would always try to make sure that I was right and then I'd voice my opinion.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Long Has Beens Might Voice Decision Steps Opinion Not Afraid Might Have Been Wrong Decision

Author:Michael E. Thornton

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