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“I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.”

“I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.”

Years Film Young Eight Nine Hooked Nine Years Maniacs

“I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.”

Said Country Wanted Mother Company Careers Son Productions Producers Agents Housewife New Career

Author:Britt Ekland

“I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.”

Years School Jobs Reading Social Hours Cities Cases Study Cutting Son Workers Income Welfare Department My Son Social Worker Psychiatric Supervisors Public Welfare

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.”

Years Children Two Realizing Two Years Pregnant Very Happy Anna

Author:David Thewlis

“I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century.”

Littles Character Kids Felt Fans Century 21st Century Stamps Little Kid Great Respect

Author:Charles Roven

“I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul”

Life Mind Soul Moments School Healing Students Taught Plenty My Time Terrific

Author:Diane Chamberlain

Source: The Silent Sister

“I'd been a thriller reader all my life.”

Reader Thrillers

Author:Lee Child

“I'd been acting and doing stand-up in New York about eight years, getting rejected, and I finally got the opportunity to do stand-up on Letterman, which holds even more importance for me. With comedians, that's definitely the pinnacle, but being from Indiana, it was a big to-do.”

Years Bigs Opportunity Acting New York Importance Eight Comedian Rejected Indiana Pinnacle Letterman

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I'd been all hyped about it, I was like, "Please come," and to have that and know Tommy Nohilly is probably going like, "This is cool," it makes me feel good.”

Knows Feels Please Feel Good

Author:Ti West

“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.”

Whole Kids Wanted Jobs Actors My Own Acting Responsibility Creativity University I Realized Whole Life Quitting Depressing Taking Responsibility I Quit Really Depressing

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.”

Men Whole Bigs School Moving Break Minutes Changed Huge Lucky Mark Luck Clouds Atmosphere Experts Just One Bullying Sheer Bully One Minute Lucky Breaks

Author:Keith Richards

“I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.”

Feels Made Said Fuel Insecurity

Author:Michael Bergin

“I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].”

Years Three Changed Three Years Arrested Organizer

Author:Bill Ayers

“I'd been asked by Takashi Murakami to collaborate on something, which was an honor for me. I was really pleased. And then he had me as a guest speaker on his radio show, and we were talking about art. I don't think he knew I was interested in the topic - he was really surprised to find out that I own some original Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter and Jean-Michel Basquiat works. So, in some ways, I think he simply wanted to see what I have.”

Thinking Art Honor Speakers Warhol

Author:Hiroshi Fujiwara

“I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."”

Firsts Wells Age Form Views Secret Known Novel Successful Saws Written Males Finals Point Of View Editors Well Known Assured

Author:Donna Tartt

“I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It was the only way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by depression. And that meant financing the film myself because there is no such thing as "immediately" in movies that one writes.”

Writing Film Funeral Overwhelmed Financing

Author:James Toback

“I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.”

Men Firsts Passion Painful Pursuit Artificial

Author:Charlaine Harris

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

Felt Born Century Cheated

Author:Ransom Riggs

Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I'd been broken beyond repair.”

Broken New Moon

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.”

Quiet Enlightenment Busy Preparing

Author:Lorene Cary

Source: Black Ice

“I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.”

Mind Ends Facts Female Teeth Tails Chasing

Author:Jim Thompson

Source: Pop. 1280

“I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.”

Littles Different Stuff Sound Type Instruments Bells Toys Here And There Collecting

Author:Z'EV

“I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.”

Moments Character President Concerned

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.”

Want Loses Conflict Core

Author:Doreen Virtue

“I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.”

Would Be Asks Arms Safe Findings Convinced Finding Myself

Author:Sarah Dessen

Source: Just Listen

“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.”

Knows Feels Kind Feelings Courses Bits Talking Depression Illness Mental Illness Powerless Fog Floats

Author:Alan Cumming

“I'd been doing comedy up that point and hadn't really done a lot of drama, and then all of a sudden he casts me as a 400-year-old vampire from hell. It was, like, "What?!"”

Years Done Hell Comedy Drama Casts Vampire

Author:Julie Benz

“I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.”

Ifs Knows Made Activity Projects Available Bread Geometry Pigeons Triangles

Author:Jenny Holzer

“I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.”

World Light Wanted Acting Comedy Agents Beer Auditions Stand Up Comedy Budweiser Light Beer

Author:Kevin Nealon

“I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.”

Thinking Subjects Eating Intrigued Fast Food Eating Fast Food

Author:Eric Schlosser

“I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.”

Educated Shy Being Shy

Author:Agnes Varda

“I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.”

Way Months Perception News Goods Damaged Goods

Author:Mika Brzezinski

Source: All Things at Once

“I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.”

School Cutting Tvs Birth Drama Exciting Edges Theatre Coming Out Cutting Edge Gearing Up

Author:Amanda Burton

“I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.”

Play Used Found Lines Alive Higher Harmony Jazz Hearing Bored Related Melody Chords Intervals

Author:Charlie Parker

“I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.”

Glad Bob Trash Dylan Sidewalk Banging

Author:Bob Dylan

“I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.”

Littles Hurt Response Destroying Been Hurt

Author:John Connolly

Source: The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller

“I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.”

Wells Three Half Week Team Football Ill Excuse Cramps Half Time

Author:Clinton Morrison

“I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"”

Together Song Order Realizing Situation Cutting Couple Band Musician Okay Engineers Verses

Author:J. Robbins

“I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.”

People Knows Way Years One Day Years Ago Moved Circles My Way Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles Vicious Circles

Author:Chaka Khan

“I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Whole Situation Taught Depressing Screwed Up Harry Dresden

Author:Jim Butcher

Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files

“I'd been in love before - I was always in love.”

Been In Love

Author:Quincy Jones

“I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.”

Years Left Towns University Been In Love Audrey

Author:Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.”

Way Kind Littles Art Book War Bigs School Reading Asks Students Late Lows Europe Medical France Ask Me Paris Reading Books Sections Clue Colony Art School Bohemian Little Money Medical School

Author:Robert Redford

“I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.”

Whole Might America Felt Stuff Interesting Seeing Perception Europe South Hearing Eastern Diaries South America Eastern Europe

Author:David Byrne

“I'd been knocking on record companies' doors for so long, and I had gone on a lot of auditions. It's weird when you go to those auditions through the Village Voice or something. You never know what to expect. You just press Floor 3 on the elevator and pray that it's not... You know, anyone can place an ad, so it's really freaky.”

Long Praying Freaky

Author:Nellie McKay

“I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.”

Firsts Would Be Able Sound Records Listening African American American Music Sam Cooke African American Music

Author:David Toop

“I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.”

Sometimes House Sleep Streets New York My Friends Living On Subway

Author:Liz Murray

“I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.”

Way Feels Trying Years Hurt Stress Endure Ridiculous Consistently Homeless Touring Suitcases

Author:Zach Condon

“I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.”

Years Guy Interest Television Tvs Series Tv Series

Author:Edward Burns

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