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“I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.”

“I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.”

Firsts Facts Would Be Grief Sadness Worst Prepared Unpredictable Flu Linear

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.”

Thinking Bigs Rooms Prepared Typewriters Printer

Author:Ray Kroc

Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

“I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.”

Years Dream Prepared Expected Wildest Dreams Mammograms

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattractive enough to be the dorky girl.”

Enough Girl Pretty Girl Dorky

Author:Jane Fonda

“I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful.”

Enough Play Girl Fit Painful Popular Girl

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.”

Careers Happened Musical

Author:Ian Astbury

“I wasn't put on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a plus-size model, I was put on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham. This is exactly where we're headed, and yes, there are so many more things we need to do in the curve/plus-size industry.”

Needs Sports Industry Models Size Plus Curves Rookies Ashley Plus Size Sports Illustrated Plus Size Models

Author:Ashley Graham

“I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.”

Writing Play Earth Song Wealth Guitar Personal Wealth

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.”

Children Matter Earth My Own Housekeepers

Author:Lynn Freed

“I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.”

Thinking Behinds Too Much Emphasis Behind You Booing

Author:Dany Heatley

“I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.”

Soul Certain

Author:Alice Hoffman

Source: Incantation

“I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.”

Bigs Player One Day League

Author:Tommy Lasorda

Source: The Artful Dodger

“I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.”

People Writing Used Notes Diaries

Author:Benjamin Clementine

“I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.”

People Nice Catholic Raised Mary Being Nice Floating Benign Be Nice To People

Author:Moby

“I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.”

People I Can Use Gay Raised Insult Household Abnormal Derogatory

Author:Ariana Grande

“I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.”

Ifs Mother Parent Poor Raised Cake Divorced

Author:Patrick Carney

“I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.”

Raised Promoting

Author:Michael Heizer

“I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.”

Raised Celebrate Misfortunes Misfortunes Of Others

Author:Nikki Gil

“I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.”

Knows Writing Hard Song Girl Issues Raised

Author:Steve Earle

“I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.”

Ifs Knows Believe Mean School Names Parent Havens Catholic Raised Believe In God Catholic School

Author:Stephen Chbosky

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.”

Thinking Wells Used Raised

Author:Christine McVie

“I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.”

Law Culture Reading Literature Moral Guides Anthropology

Author:David Plotz

“I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.”

People Happens Saws Ready Fame Impact Handle Overwhelming Amazing Experiences

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did”

Years Would Be Choices Waiting Car Ready Earnest

Author:Sarah Dessen

Source: Just Listen

“I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.”

Writing Stills Song My Own Growing Ready Grew Studios Early 20s

Author:Mark Stoermer

“I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.”

Mind Real Guy Strong Basketball Beats Fundamentals Larry Basketball Game Basketball And Life

Author:Larry Bird

“I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.”

Book Whole Bigs Guy Choices Growing Up Growing Comic Comic Book Cartoon Comic Book Guy

Author:Adrian Pasdar

“I wasn't really a performer by temperament.”

Performers Temperament

Author:Tom Lehrer

“I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.”

Persons Type Conscious

Author:Michael Jordan

“I wasn't really able to love someone but I couldn't help but want to be loved.”

Want Helping Able Love Someone

Author:Ai Yazawa

“I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.”

Reality Sleep Meditating Unconsciousness Funny Sleep

Author:Paul Bourget

“I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!”

Mother Father

Author:Peter Fonda

“I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.”

Religious Organization Ran Grandparent Quaker

Author:Charlie Brooker

“I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.”

Reading Comfortable

Author:Paloma Faith

“I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.”

Art School Acting Study College Disappointment Driven Chemistry Gross

Author:Roger Bart

“I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.”

People Care School Guy Term Middle High School Don't Care Hierarchy Nerdy Middle Ground Really Popular

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“I wasn't really happy in school and didn't really have anything else going for me; I wasn't really good at anything. Drama was at least something I loved and was really passionate about.”

School Drama Passionate Really Happy

Author:Will Poulter

“I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.”

Television Ambition Agents

Author:Meg Tilly

“I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.”

Body Found Half Students Female Piercings

Author:Kathy Acker

“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”

Clothes Witty Naked

Author:Josephine Baker

“I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.”

Night Saturday Qualified Saturday Night Night Time Saturday Night Live Impressionists

Author:Victoria Jackson

“I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.”

People Thinking Feelings Extraordinary

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball”

Acting Serious Baseball

Author:Kurt Russell

“I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.”

Years School Artist College High School Senior Being An Artist Senior Year

Author:Ab-Soul

“I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.”

People Thinking Heart Whole Love You And Love Testing Live And Love Learning From Others

Author:Brené Brown

“I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.”

Might Actors Musician Jokes Photographer

Author:Garry Marshall

“I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.”

Years Children Two Humor Kids Funny Baby Humorous Discovery Two Years Documentaries Two Year Olds

Author:Ray Romano

Source: Everything and a Kite

“I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.”

Ideas Objects

Author:Sol LeWitt

Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts

“I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.”

People Persons Long Acting Skills Comfortable Long Time Singing Charming People Skills

Author:Zooey Deschanel

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