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“I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.”

Joy Fun Lucky Blessed Coaches Boss Soap Everybody Loves Raymond

Author:Katherine Helmond

“I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records and play them for me. So it was in my early teens that I started to listen to jazz.”

School Teacher Lucky Jazz Great Music

Author:Alasdair MacLean

“I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.”

War Periods Lucky Posts Post War

Author:Pierre Cardin

“I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.”

Knows I Can Judging Goes On Lucky Chinese Publishers Translations Dutch Thai

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I was very lucky. I was just finishing my PhD at Cambridge in 1981. This opportunity came up because whaling was drawing to an end. There was the prospect of a moratorium, and one of the arguments that was brought up, especially by Japanese whalers, was that, if we didn't have whaling, we would know nothing of whales. All the science depends on having dead animals, they argued, so that's one of the benefits of the whaling industry.”

Opportunity Animal Lucky Argument

Author:Hal Whitehead

“I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it was stress-caused and that I needed to learn how to meditate. So I learned how to do Transcendental Meditation.”

Kind Said Hurt Meditation Needed Lucky Doctors Stress Hips Necks Doctor Who Transcendental Transcendental Meditation

Author:Rick Rubin

“I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal”

Way Parent Lucky Equal Raised

Author:Victoria Principal

“I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.”

Want Real Done Past Happened Trouble Needed Lucky Things Happen Live Life Real Deep Busking

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.”

People Thinking Important Real Character Names Moved Ships Boat Imaginary Imaginary Life

Author:Paul Auster

“I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.”

Children War Home Father Left Grew Grew Up Crosses Wings Lawyer Greek Vietnam 1960s Vietnam War Left Wing

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I was very much a child of the Cold War.”

Children War Cold Cold War

Author:Justin Cronin

“I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.”

Way Persons School Parent Broken Illness Mess Teenage Broken Up Teenage Life

Author:Marc Almond

“I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.”

Kids School Law Parent Class Products Involved Public School School System

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.”

Trying Littles Long Realizing Long Time Preserves Regimes

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.”

Kids School Fighting Share Streets New York Tough Fairs Fair Share

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'”

Writing Said War Running House Voice White Pieces Written One Day White House Editors Cheer Vietnam Reporters Johnson Commanders Vietnam War Max Visiting Editorials

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.”

People Children Parent Class Rich Middle New York Television Grew Grew Up Raised Entertainment Middle Class Rich People Only Child

Author:Billy Eichner

“I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.”

America Ocean Disappointed Atlantic Ocean

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.”

Sound Technology Computer Available Fascinated Composition Crap Edits

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.”

World Kids Mother My Own Brother Great Family My Own World

Author:Jared Leto

“I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.”

Knows Littles Felt Rooms Stage Creating Productions Boring Fascinating Charging Boring Things

Author:Bob Balaban

“I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.”

Mind Book Changed Balance Speech Intellectual Dignity Privacy Scholar Free Speech Great Book Louis Brandeis

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.”

Want Art Century Changed Masters Decided Mood Contemporary Buying Great Art Contemporary Art

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.”

Wanted Young Doctors Marine Biologist Marine Biologist

Author:Freema Agyeman

“I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Acting didn't come up until much later, probably about 16 or 17. I thought, "Oh, I quite like this."”

Acting Marine Biologist

Author:Freema Agyeman

“I was very much of a tomboy.”

Author:Suzanne Farrell

“I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.”

Sides Five Significant Mathematical Forty Best Work

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.”

Thinking Courses Fairy Provoked

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

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“I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world.”

World Trying Stuff Curious Layman

Author:Dallas Campbell

“I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.”

Firsts Stills Moments Artist Taste Okay Entertainment Drawing Nervous Comic Visuals Frightened Iconic

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.”

Teach Nervous Stanford

Author:Vinton Cerf

“I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.”

Powerful Nervous Empires

Author:Sienna Miller

“I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.”

Nervous Accents

Author:Janet McTeer

“I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.”

Nervous Hotel Hospitality

Author:Marcel Carne

“I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.”

Opportunity Given Majors Excited Nervous League Major League

Author:Bengie Molina

“I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.”

Actors Fronts Information Cameras Casts Missions Shooting Gleaning

Author:Elizabeth Debicki

“I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.”

Running Careers Type Directors Empty Killing Obsessed Coast Casting Mosquitoes Ruth Casting Directors Leading Ladies

Author:Winona Ryder

“I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.”

Mean Fats Obsessed Anorexia Calories

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom religion is most important.This I cannot apologize for. I’m sorry but it is unacceptable to watch my mother crying because of this. I think everyone who has a family will understand the pain we are going through now.If you don’t like me, you can just tell me to my face. Don’t come near my parents.”

Ifs Thinking Important Pain Faces Mother Father Parent Watches Cry Sorry Like Me Reputation Damage Apologizing I'm Sorry Offended Don't Like Me You Don't Like Me If You Don't Like Me

Author:Shila Amzah

“I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.”

Has Beens Made Kids Natural Acting Lessons Looking Good Outgoing

Author:Ricky Schroder

“I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.”

Passion Class Dancer My Passion Outgoing Dance Class Diehard

Author:Jenna Dewan

“I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.”

Believe Stills Play Use Games I Believe Sports Style Basketball Court I Believe In Tone Rough Aggressive Positive Things Good Sports

Author:Sue Wicks

“I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.”

Happens My Own Records Expression Areas Starting Experiments Video

Author:Thomas Dolby

“I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano.”

“I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.”

“I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.”

States School Process Levels United United States College Basketball High School Selection Parting

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.”

Feels Kind Given Hero Letters Nominations

Author:Albert Einstein

“I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.”

Country Conservative Communist

Author:Taki Theodoracopulos

“I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.”

Hard Poor New York Waitress

Author:Kristin Davis

“I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.”

Children Dream Poor Football Leather

Author:Stephen Chow