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“I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.”

Fans Great Fans

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.”

Shows Felt Race Morning Issues Tvs News Sexuality Newspapers Sunday Junkie Sunday Morning

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.”

Fiction Science Fiction

Author:Ivan Reitman

“I'd always been interested in psychology.”

Author:Morrie Schwartz

Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man

“I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.”

Giving Ends Creating

Author:Jessi Colter

“I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.”

Way Voice Growing Up Growing Quiet Singing

Author:Leona Lewis

“I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.”

Writing Prose Intimidated Prose Writing

Author:David Rees

“I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.”

People Found Cases Jokes Scared Intellect

Author:Billy Connolly

“I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.”

People Years Stills School Guy Speak Fronts Cry Math Get Up Shy

Author:Chris Vance

“I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.”

Humans Objects Treated

Author:Bijou Phillips

“I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.”

World Way Humans Would Be Simple Quality Seeing Masters Discipline Enjoyment Always Believe Birthright Time Passes Seeing The World Uncomplicated

Author:Dan Millman

“I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used to use one microphone, and so you had to share the mic. And, even today, I will move over to the left to give the harmony room, knowing in my mind that there's no harmony standing on my right. But it's just old habits are hard to break.”

Giving Mind Today Moving Song Break Share Brother Habit Singing Harmony My Brother Always Believe

Author:Charlie Louvin

“I'd always dabbled in acting.”

Author:Nelsan Ellis

“I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'.”

Done Kids Growing Up Growing Speed Smoke Weed Marijuana Heroin Glue Cannabis Kids Growing Up Hemp Sniffing Smoke Weed Lager Marijuana Prohibition Sniffing Glue

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.”

People Done Shows Wanted Film Stuff Sides Uncomfortable Friendly Darker Side

Author:Melissa Joan Hart

“I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.”

Art Done Fighting Martial Arts

Author:Robbie Lawler

“I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.”

Opportunity Acting Possibility Exposure Stardom Adelaide

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.”

Ifs Knows Said School Girl Courses Hours Acting Teacher Drama Degrees High School University Enjoyed Biology Honour Eleventh Hour

Author:Matt Frewer

“I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.”

Acting Pursue Enjoyed Modeling Consuming Time Consuming

Author:Jerry Hall

“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.”

Years Long Different Would Be Together Felt Loses Chance Five Example Response Pursue Comic Enjoyed Five Years Rejected Unemployed Good Chance Hobbes Comic Strips Long Road

Author:Bill Watterson

“I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.”

People Way Mean Real Play Actors Pages Research Scripts Envied

Author:Luke Wilson

“I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.”

Men Should Felt Marry Me Later In Life

Author:Frank Langella

“I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.”

Felt Accepting Adventure Periods Vulnerable Demise Diving Shipwreck

Author:Phil Keoghan

“I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.”

Dream Felt Chance Rate Myth Touring Repressed Cocoons

Author:John Lennon

“I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.”

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“I'd always find the positive in someone.”

Author:Winona Ryder

“I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.”

Mind Evil Found My Own Interesting Views Opinion Goodness Be Good Shortcomings

Author:Dick Francis

Source: Comeback

“I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.”

Bigs Big Things

Author:Miranda Otto

“I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .”

Years Opportunity Business Half Careers Childhood Ambition Twenties Investment Investing Boring Spending Bored Odd

Author:Chris Corrigan

“I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.”

Thinking Mean Week Crush

Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.”

Way Years Firsts Has Beens Girl Strong Interest Player Happened Influence Taught Hero Lessons Seven Guitar Folks Clubs Fantastic Fifteen Scotland Seven Years My Hero Guitar Player Edinburgh

Author:Bert Jansch

“I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.”

Interest Psychology Physiotherapy

Author:Bob Paisley

“I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.”

Interest Limits Pushing Endurance Intrigued

Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.”

People Share Urges

Author:Jill Soloway

“I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.”

Two Wanted Asks Cases Caught Ask Me Wipe Umpires Grease

Author:Gaylord Perry

“I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi”

Knows Love Said Girl Love You Return Leia

Author:Cassandra Clare

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”

Thinking Jogging

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.”

Kind Ideas Would Be Political Imagination Memories Views Moral Drama Ancient Debate Discussion Aesthetic Arena

Author:Jeremy Northam

“I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.”

Feels Kind Book Wanted Literature Excitement Going Out

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.”

Writing Trying Wanted Easy This Day Occupation Hunts Sissy

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“I'd always loved hip-hop.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Justin Broadrick

“I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."”

People Want Writing Desperate Celluloid Desperate Love

Author:Lena Dunham

“I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.”

Writing Two Together Composing Writing Music Composing Music

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.”

Writing Play Film Bits Consequence Theater

Author:Lucinda Coxon

“I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.”

Writing Careers Reader

Author:Nora Roberts

“I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.”

People Approach

Author:John Lurie

“I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.”

Facts Government Internet Anarchy Realised Craziness

Author:William Gibson

“I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this.”

Want Wanted Lasts Born Chance Example Dad Musician Daughter Okay My Daughter Meant To Be Last Chance

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.”

Choices Hard Work Harder Work Harder Second Choice

Author:Noel Clarke

“I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.”

Ifs Needs Sometimes Would Be Creative Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Jodie Foster