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“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.”

People Writing Years Kind Novel Magic Century Strange Research Vampire Witch Reluctant Intriguing

Author:Deborah Harkness

“I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.”

Firsts Wells Facts Motivational Jobs Week Taught Summer Dance Winter Worried Chicago Broadway Well Rounded

Author:Gene Kelly

“I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.”

School Moving Literature Helpful Graduates American History Graduate School English Literature

Author:Lynne Tillman

“I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.”

Firsts Rocks Involved Seven Teenager Piano Solo Chamber Classical Music Rock Music

Author:Tod Machover

“I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.”

Artist Growing Up Growing Example Theater

Author:Brit Marling

“I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.”

Stills Book Reason Whole Jobs Easy Walks Brother Strikes

Author:Michael Lewis

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.”

Thinking Moments Impossible Knees

Author:Nora Roberts

“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.”

Mean Beautiful Poverty Support Dying Computer Ugly Noble Primitive Brutal Nasty Extensions Suspension

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag”

Littles Done Miserable Bats

Author:Piers Morgan

“I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.”

People Ifs Want Play Hate Actors Player Piano Swear Closets Terrific Wrong Things Dope Swear To God

Author:J. D. Salinger

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.”

Guy Passion Games Strong Game Over Strong Passion

Author:Michael Jordan

“I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.”

I Can Noise

Author:W. C. Fields

“I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.”

Bells Ovens Helicopters Tacos Microwaves Taco Bell

Author:Douglas Coupland

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

Looks Self My Own Wonder Mirrors Enormous Manage

Author:Ken Kesey

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“I'd take about 40 thousand CDs, and then take about three full vans of people to hit every hood, every mall, and every club. Just hit one city to the next.”

People Three Next Cities Thousand Clubs Vans Cds Hood Malls

Author:Gorilla Zoe

“I'd take my clothes off for chocolate and peanut butter.”

Clothes Chocolate Peanuts Peanut Butter

Author:Jenna Morasca

“I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.”

People Knows World Firsts Littles Light Heard Band Passing Passings Grass Ran Tension Joints Up And Down Lighting Dope Relieved Faking It

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks.”

Looks Skinny Pasta

Author:Kathryn Budig

“I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.”

Knows Two Fire Ready Shots Opponents Precision Tactical

Author:Alexis Arguello

“I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.”

People Mind Wanted Moving Telepathy

Author:Shawn Ashmore

“I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.”

Way Bigs Jesus Taken Crisis Shoulders Fats Unfair Loaded

Author:David James Duncan

Source: The Brothers K

“I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Taxes Paper Pages Negative I Hate Ministers Prime Mail Prime Minister Vicious Daily Mail

Author:Jason Flemyng

“I'd teach them to read and to dream and to look at the stars and wonder. I'd teach them the value of imagination. I'd teach them to play every bit as hard as they worked. And I'd teach them that all the brains in the world can't compensate for love.”

World Looks Hard Play Dream Values Stars Bits Imagination Brain Wonder Teach

Author:Karen Marie Moning

Source: Kiss of the Highlander

“I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.”

Want Enough Girl College Pursue Pushing Gym Scholarship Gymnastics Push Yourself

Author:Gabby Douglas

“I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.”

Body Paint Naked

Author:Bat for Lashes

“I'd tell him, though. Soon. Soonish. Eventually.”

Author:Kiersten White

Source: Supernaturally (Paranormalcy, Book 2)

“I'd tell the planet to actively and consciously practice gratitude. To never give up hope. To believe in themselves and be true to who they are. To be kind. To share. To protect our planet for future generations.”

Giving Believe Kind Practice Generations Share Planets Gratitude Protect Giving Up Being True Be Kind Never Giving Up Our Planet Future Generation Never Give Up Hope

Author:Trista Sutter

“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”

Ifs Want Made Sound

Author:David Foster Wallace

Source: Infinite Jest

“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”

Love You Gun Heist Society United We Spy Cammie Morgan Macey Mchenry Zachary Goode

Author:Ally Carter

Source: The Gallagher Girls Omnibus

“I'd tell you to go to hell but I don't want to see you again.”

Want Hell You Again Go To Hell Want To See You

Author:Charles Macaulay

“I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.”

Body My Own Envy Familiar Fifteen Upbringing Nun

Author:Joe Orton

“I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people”

People Thinking Play Would Be Guitar Confusing

Author:Doc Watson

“I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.”

People Thinking Writing Hours Computer Posts Comment Topics Website Transfers Rant

Author:Andy Milonakis

“I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Kind Persons Fighting Truth Is Married Being Married

Author:George Clooney

“I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and that I should throw out everything prior, or figure out a way to weave only the most important information back into the story, and keep the action moving forward. Wow. That was a really humbling experience. A real eye-opener. Made me realize there are so many aspects involved with telling a story.”

Important Book Real Action Moving Realizing Teacher Wonderful Moving Forward Humbling

Author:Rich Ferguson

“I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.”

Wife My Wife

Author:Nick Hornby

“I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.”

Bigs Time Stars Motion Pictures

Author:Loretta Young

“I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.”

Ifs Mind Moments Helping Faces Night Fall Left Sleep Mouths Fairs Awake Mask Spokes

Author:Kristin Cashore

“I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.”

Natural Security Sexuality Linked

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.”

Ifs Economy Dollars Helicopters

Author:Ben Bernanke

“I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm.”

Stuff Sarcasm Sarcastic

Author:Sara Gilbert

“I'd told Taker before the promo that I was gonna stick it to him and he told me to go for it. However, I crossed the line and insulted him by saying what I said. I can't believe the lack of respect I showed him and so many of the other guys in the locker room during my first month in the company, especially since I knew how important the hierarchy of the business was (and still is). Respect your elders.”

Firsts Believe Said Stills I Can Important Guy Lines Rooms Company Months Sticks Wwe Elders Hierarchy Other Guys Insulted Lockers Locker Room Lack Of Respect Insulted Him

Author:Chris Jericho

“I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!”

Girl Geek

Author:Robert Carlyle

“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”

Tomorrow Trade Yesterday

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.”

“I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.”

Pages Scripts Trapped Unwritten

Author:David James Duncan

“I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.”

Home Successful Insane Traveled

Author:Diana Ross

“I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.”

Knows Long Enough Term Long Term Going To Work

Author:Cecelia Ahern

Source: A Place Called Here

“I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”

Thinking Persons Can Do Brands Beer Auschwitz

Author:David Sedaris

“I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you every night. They're the ones buying the tickets and coming to the shows. They're the professionals in this business, and they're the only ones who can tell you which songs have the ability to move them.”

Writing Real Shows Moving Night Song Ability Fans Fronts Experts Buying Guts Songwriting Every Night Trusted Tickets

Author:Eric Church

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