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“I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.”

Opportunity Interest Business Offers Dollars Starting Mary Cents Mary Kay

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.”

Book Novel Crime Crime Novels

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.”

Ifs Kids

Author:Sasha Grey

“I wasn't that much of a Disney buff growing up, but I love the mystical and magical nature of Peter Pan, and I have connected with that character through Owen [Suskind] in making this film ["Life, Animated"].”

Character Film Growing Up Growing Connected Peter Mystical Animated

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.”

Ifs Want Real Program Heavy Metals Mtv Heavy Metal Metal Fans

Author:Phil Anselmo

“I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.”

Kids Sports Brother Grew Dad Grew Up My Family My Dad My Brother Hockey Athletic Scholarship Younger Brother Athletic Scholarships

Author:Trevor McNevan

“I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.”

Attention Stupid Students Best Students

Author:Denis Leary

“I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.”

Ethics Strongest Work Ethic

Author:Ray Lewis

“I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.”

People Mind Firsts Heart Art Kids School Three Higher Grades Division Heart And Mind Backbenchers

Author:Shiv Khera

“I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.”

Long Done Kids Girl Effort Football Amount Shots Work Done Long Shots

Author:Thomas J. Sargent

“I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."”

School Law Guy Class Crazy Starting Annoying Clown Law School

Author:Demetri Martin

“I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.”

Answers Periods Questions And Answers Cutest

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.”

Trying Guy Hot Silly Fats Comedian Hats Looking Good Chicks Good Looking Guys Hot Chick

Author:Bill Burr

“I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.”

World Starting Zero Reporters

Author:Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

“I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.”

Guy Shut Up

Author:Jay Mohr

“I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.”

Play School Parent College High School Queens School Plays

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.”

Trying Wells Kind Kids Wanted Grades Organised Good Grades

Author:Jessica Ennis

“I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.”

Kind Persons Different States Shows Waiting Hours Study Records Following Driving Concerts Autographs

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.”

People Want Kind Done Wanted Forever Students Projects Patient Things Done

Author:Jack Kirby

“I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.”

Leader Gang

Author:Billy the Kid

“I wasn't the most popular girl in class, I had my friends, but I was comfortable with myself. There's always those most popular girls and I wasn't one of those.”

Girl Class Comfortable My Friends Popular Girl

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.”

Mean School Girl Popular Song Cindy Popular Girl

Author:Cindy Crawford

“I wasn't the most popular kid in school.”

Kids School

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.”

People Whole Grief Orphan Guatemala

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

Source: I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)

“I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.”

Persons Sometimes Months Needed Okay Eight

Author:Jenny O.

“I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.”

Girl College

Author:Sarah Burton

“I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.”

Littles Important Girl Universe Voice Benefits Ambition Important Things Charity Queens Platforms Typical Nerdy Pageant Contestants Unesco

Author:Joyce Giraud

“I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.”

Seems Cities Changed My Friends

Author:Nan Goldin

“I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.”

Three Fronts Seven Forty

Author:Melina Marchetta

“I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.”

Thinking Knows Kind Ends Chance Growing Up Growing South Discrimination Rejection Lunch Segregation Georgia Atlanta Racial Discrimination Making History Atlanta Georgia

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.”

Thinking Chance

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.”

Thinking Ideas Artist Views Share Musician Etc Competing Singer Songwriters Participating Reggae

Author:Dennis Brown

“I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.”

Thinking Stuff Perfection Stardom

Author:Patti Smith

“I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.”

Thinking Years Firsts I Can Two Feelings Can Do Knowing Years Ago Golf Drinking Nervous Two Years Sober Tournaments I Can Do It Playing Golf Great Feelings Two Years Ago

Author:John Daly

“I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.”

Rooms Guitar

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.”

Running Speed Jumping Gymnastics

Author:Mitsuo Tsukahara

“I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.”

People Ifs Trying Energy Wonder Comfortable Worthy Time And Energy

Author:Tori Spelling

“I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.”

Thinking Trying Roles Models Role Models

Author:Annie Lennox

“I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.”

Trying Wanted Scientist Naturalist

Author:Jane Goodall

“I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.”

People Trying Made Law Term Heard Worst Made It Allies Outlaw Gauges Burroughs Ginsberg Gonzo Journalism

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.”

Trying

Author:Bettie Page

“I wasn't trying to be different; I just did what I liked. Don't misunderstand when I say I really had no particular DP I was aspiring to be. I really fell in love with the movies as I was growing up, and I must say, I was emulating things that I saw others doing, that’s how you learn, but you soon have to push past that, and do things that you feel are right… or better.”

Feels Trying Different Past Growing Up Saws Growing Particular

Author:Gordon Willis

“I wasn't trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.”

Trying Sleep Rich Figures Let Me Pushing Restless

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was not revolutionary enough. But they forget that I am a product of the system. I worked those desks, I know those people and I still have some faith in them, that the services can be reformed.”

People Trying Enough Forget Critics Revolutionary Slow Down Trying To Change

Author:Edward Snowden

“I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.”

Trying Play My Own Kevin

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.”

Trying Interesting Following Realistic Being Real Just Being Modest

Author:Girl Talk

“I wasn't trying to modelI'm not sure where it's going, apart from the pleasure of making beautiful thingsI said I wasn't going to model after having my son. Now I just think, 'Fine, I enjoy the people a lot.' And I haven't found a better part-time job.”

People Thinking Trying Said Jobs Beautiful Found Enjoy Pleasure Havens Son Fine Models Not Sure My Son Beautiful Things Part Time Part Time Jobs

Author:Stella Tennant

“I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.”

Trying Character Wanted Actors Fiction Study Movie Brown Modest Jackie Pulp Jackie Brown

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.”

People Feels Trying Kind My Own Emotional Stones Slavery Work Out Psychological Ancestry

Author:Octavia Butler

“I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different”

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