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“I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.”

Knows Philosophy Wanted Reading Cat Curious Omar Bebop Ron Hubbard L Ron Hubbard

Author:Quincy Jones

“I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, you're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something. And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.”

Knows Should Littles Reading Names Bits Like You Little Bit Following Girlfriend My Girlfriend Reading Poetry Poetry Reading

Author:Jill Scott

“I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.”

Way Trying Persons Made Eye Girl Reading Fiction Boys Novel Crime Six Seven Feminist Bad Things Adam Crime Fiction Adam And Eve Bad Girl Good Boy Reading More

Author:Sara Paretsky

“I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.”

Reading Paper Papers

Author:Rebecca Loos

“I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.”

World Book Reading My Own Youth Concepts Complexes Thrust Lifelines

Author:Tanith Lee

“I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Moments Reading I Believe Sky Negative Opposites Died Clouds Lightning Bolts Friction Opposites Attract

Author:Chris Colfer

“I was reading that there are children at the age of twelve and thirteen selling their bodies at dinnertimes for as little as £5 when they should be at school. Now if that is not a problem, I don’t know what is. The drug problem has got way too far out of hand.”

Stephen Richards True Crime Stephen Richards Author Jimmy Holland Scotland Crime Scottish Penal System Scottish Hard Bastards Scotland Hard Men Scotttish True Crime Scottish Prison Sieges Scottish Drug Addiction

Author:Stephen Richards

Source: Scottish Hard Bastards

“I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.”

Kind Stories Reading Language Felt Insane Testament Thrilling Old Testament Vindictive Reading The Bible Patriarch

Author:Nick Cave

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”

Life Humor Funny Poetry Reading Reading Books Dictionary

Author:Steven Wright

“I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating tw*t”

Said Reading Next Car Reader Eating Red Window Letters Mirrors Riding Leafs Bike Ferrari Hatchet

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.”

Ifs Trying Made Said Book Happens Past Reading Waiting Saws Paper Happenings Not Sure Comment Rays Cartoon Diplomatic Trayvon Martin Trayvon

Author:Adepero Oduye

“I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.”

Thinking Made Book Reading Shock Poetry Is Reading Books Bisexual Rochester

Author:Thom Gunn

Source: Selected Poems of Thom Gunn

“I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.”

Book Funny Reading I Realized Reading Books

Author:Dave Barry

“I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.”

People Home Reading Ability Smart Program Insane Cell Phone

Author:Ted Rall

“I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.”

Way Play Reading Roles Wife Scripts Endless My Way Girlfriend Junk

Author:Roma Downey

“I was ready for huge transformation, emerging from the chrysalis, like the butterfly, a true metamorphosis, alive in all my beauty.”

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Author:Leeza Donatella

Source: The State of Being Love: Steps to Raise Your Vibration for a Joy Filled Life

“I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.”

Ends Games Watches Ready Tough Trials Champion Injury Olympics Thighs Olympic Games

Author:David Rudisha

“I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.”

Made Philosophy Decision Party Accepting Struggle Doubt Ready Permit

Author:Klaus Fuchs

“I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.”

Ready Arms Approach Revenge Charm Retribution Brass

Author:Elton John

“I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.”

Giving Dies Ready Consent Ready To Die

Author:Rosa Parks

“I was ready to die for you, but never realized that it was you who will kill me.”

Trust Betrayal Loyalty Traitor Treachery Shon Mehta The Timingila

Author:Shon Mehta

Source: The Timingila

“I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.”

Littles Different Play Ready Boxes

Author:Ice Cube

“I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations. Not that there was anything wrong with the way either one of us was brought up, but still, the world is changing, so the way you bring up kids had to change, too. Part of my plan was to never one time mention picking cotton. My parents always talked about either real cotton or the idea of it. White people say, 'It beats digging a ditch'; black people say, 'It beats picking cotton.' I'm not going to remind my kids that somebody died in order for me to do everyday things. I don't want Roy III sitting up in the movie theater trying to watch Star Wars or what have you and be thinking about the fact that sitting down eating some popcorn is a right that cost somebody his life. None of that. Or maybe not much of that. We'll have to get the recipe right. Now Celestial promises that she will never say that they have to be twice as good to get half as much. 'Even if it's true,' she said, 'what kind of thing is that to say to a five-year-old?”

Children African American Childrearing

Author:Tayari Jones

Source: An American Marriage

“I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!”

Loneliness Forgotten Unwanted White Nights

Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Source: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

“I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.”

World Whole Hate Ready Understood Whole World Ready For Love

Author:Mikhail Lermontov

“I was ready to move up a weight class, but I can still make 140. If I'm back in the ring in the summertime I know I can make 140 with the heat. I've always been disciplined so it's no problem for me.”

Ifs Knows Stills I Can Problem Moving Class Ready Weight Rings Heat No Problem Summertime I'm Back

Author:Danny Garcia

“I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.”

Felt Ready Quitting

Author:Dave Grohl

“I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.”

Real

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.”

Real Captains Explosions Pavement Captain Beefheart

Author:Patrick Carney

“I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.”

Real Wanted Young Religious Missionary

Author:Patti Smith

“I was real with you. I did not fake myself. And I hope you know that psychology says we show our real side to people we trust.”

Mind Real Life Quotes Psychology Life Philosophy Love Quotes And Sayings Real Life Psychology Quotes Life And Living Life Philosophy Writers On Writing Life

Author:Avijeet Das

“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.”

Firsts Ends Stories Body Turns Realizing Goes On First Time Gray Decay Ruined

Author:Carmen Laforet

Source: Nada

“I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing.”

World Way Made Bigs Attention Fans Stuck Far Away Outside World Austria Loveless

Author:Christian Fennesz

“I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.”

Guy Talking Minutes Office Down And Principal Charmers

Author:Patrick J. Adams

“I was really able to confirm something that I knew on some level before I'd made a film. The best actors know how to really relax. Because in film, a lot of the decisions are made in the editing room, so when you're trying to guide your performance too much - always it's a push and pull because you can't be too relaxed. Too relaxed and it's like, "What are you doing?" Too tense and it's not good either.”

Trying Film Decision Relax

Author:Peter Vack

“I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?”

Ideas Wanted America Lost No Idea Boards Homemaker

Author:Jayma Mays

“I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.”

Kids Active

Author:Beth Riesgraf

“I was really attracted to doing Game of Thrones because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.”

Character Games Thrones

Author:Ellie Kendrick

“I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: "I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent." That makes me just die inside.”

Dies Names Sitting Down And Cameras Awful Agents Auditions Sitting Down Nina

Author:Nina Conti

“I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.”

Performances

Author:Adam Lambert

“I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!”

Said Parent Adults Blessed Wow

Author:Olesya Rulin

“I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.”

Way Children Persons Real Done Helping Felt Kindness Figures Involved Inspired Spokes Elegant Being There Blown Away Public Figures Hepburn Audrey Cambodia Unicef

Author:Liv Tyler

“I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.”

School Used Unhappy Horrible Bored Horrible Things

Author:Christina Ricci

“I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.”

Book Lasts Detectives

Author:Dave Barry

“I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They start to lose and say, ‘I’m dying.’ It’s not right for kids to think about a concept of death that way. They need to treat death with more respect.”

People Thinking Way Needs Kids Young Dies Games Loses Dying Concepts Treats Careful Monsters Abnormal Playing Games

Author:Satoshi Tajiri

“I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.”

World Helping Actresses Selfish Things To Do

Author:Maria Bello

“I was really crying the morning after the indication. However I am over that now. Nevertheless, I am proud for it to be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. But I've got two copies of the guitar now, to remind of the original Teardrop.”

Two Morning Rocks Cry Proud Fame Originals Guitar Copies Halls Nevertheless Rock And Roll Indication Hall Of Fame Morning After Teardrop Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Dave Wakeling

“I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.”

Ifs Knows Want Inspirational School Funny Remember Degrees Female Desperate Graduates Graduation Graduate School

Author:Shannon Lucid

“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.”

Thinking Enough Film Actors Asks Ask Me Movie Disappointed Filmmaking Bros Warner Bros

Author:Richard Donner

“I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.”

Way Reason Feelings Style Rhythm Outlets Spoken Word

Author:Matt de la Pena

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