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“I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.”

Want Study Students Goes On University Accepted Chinese Archaeology Cambridge Cambridge University

Author:Lou Gerstner

“I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.”

Feels Writing Currents Trends Sci Fi Accused Texture My Future Gloomy

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.”

Believe Action Talking Too Much Don't Believe Productive Accused Triggers Not Talking

Author:Edward Whitacre, Jr.

“I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”

People Taste Refuse Graves Restaurants Reserves Accused Bad Taste

Author:Lenny Bruce

“I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to listen to it at all. I'm not trying to convince people of things, other than the fact that I'm trying to make as vivid as I can my own feelings and experiences.”

People Trying Littles I Can Facts Feelings My Own Criticism Convince Accused Vivid Here And There Pedantic

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.”

Accused Minimalist

Author:Kathy Reichs

“I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.”

Accused Aloof

Author:Paul Newman

“I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Feelings Asks Too Much Cold Protect Opposites Know Me Accused Private Life Touch Me Inner Feelings Snobbish

Author:Grace Kelly

“I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.”

People Two Felt Childhood Comfortable Trade My Time Attributes Grandparent Accused Affinity Older People Great Grandparents Being Old

Author:Jon Meacham

“I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.”

Knows Kind I Can School Fun Stuff Grades Apologizing Accused Dictionary Pretentious Grades In School Insufferable Good Grades

Author:Mara Wilson

“I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.”

Men Willing Accused Flexible Mold

Author:Jane Fonda

“I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.”

Minutes Producers Executives Host Accused

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.”

Vain Apathy Accused

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.”

Light Darkness Accused Inner Light

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

Source: Stairway to Heaven: Poems

“I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.”

Used Speak Letters Used To Be Accents Accused Dropping

Author:Kate Nash

“I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.”

World War Lists War Of The Worlds Accused Casualties

Author:Al Capone

“I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.”

I Can Strange Blame Atheist Nazi Accused Strange Things Blame Me

Author:W. D. Snodgrass

“I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.”

Shows Compassion Lacking Accused

Author:Vince Lombardi

“I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.”

Names Attention Come Up Sentences Pay Attention Accused

Author:Matthew Perry

“I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people”

People Trying Hard Father Rescue Accused Trying Too Hard

Author:Kim Edwards

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”

Empowerment Bullshit Psychics Vulgar Accused Vulgarity Swearing Profanity Black Humor Vulgarity Is

Author:Mel Brooks

“I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.”

America Weapons Terrorist Accused

Author:Rand Paul

“I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.”

Ifs Way Needs Writing Years Player Written Reader Fairs Accused

Author:Peter King

“I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.”

Years Lasts Certain Next Games Levels Attention Gone Changed Months Fame Accustomed Next Level Being Famous Arcades

Author:Kylie Minogue

“I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.”

Trying Long I Can Real Play Character Sleep Acting Long Time Standing Far Away Mars Nazi Gangsters Womanizer Cockneys

Author:Michael Caine

“I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.”

People Acting Havens More Time Viewers Profile High Profile

Author:Debra Winger

“I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.”

Years Film Acting Theater Location Suitcases

Author:Alfred Molina

“I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.”

Mean Long Real Names Sound Acting Pride Long Time Narcissistic

Author:Ryan Kwanten

“I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.”

Different Play Acting Theater

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.”

People Years Film Enjoy Acting My Friends

Author:James Franco

“I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."”

Years Acting Careers

Author:Tom Ellis

“I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.”

Writing Long Easy Acting Angst

Author:Molly Ringwald

“I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.”

Kind Reason School Literature Acting Study Drama

Author:James Callis

“I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.”

People Whole Opportunity Realizing Acting Havens Dancing Whole Life

Author:Julianne Hough

“I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.”

People Whole Character Imagination Acting Teacher Huge Mom Amount My Mom Theatre Whole Life Performing Dancer Temporary Entertaining Main Characters Dance Teacher Live Theatre

Author:Natasha Calis

“I've been acting since 2002, around about there.”

Acting

Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.”

Eye Age Difficult Acting Roles Finding Yourself

Author:Moises Arias

“I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.”

Want Jobs Lines Acting Dad Entrepreneur My Dad Entrepreneurship

Author:Will Estes

“I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes.”

Feels Different Sometimes Acting Scene Cameras Video

Author:Corbin Bleu

“I've been acting since I was a child, and though this was different in a way, I think I've been very blessed. The majority of the sets I've been on have been very inclusive and very empowering, and I've often chosen to work with people that sing from the same song sheet.”

People Thinking Children Different Song Acting Blessed Chosen Empowering

Author:Samantha Morton

“I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.”

Knows Feels I Can Facts Kids Can Do Acting Degrees I Can Do It

Author:Emily Browning

“I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a father leaving, and a mother not being home, and her struggling and doing her best and all that. But it wasn't fun. I would go into theater class. If she were a stay-at-home mom, I wouldn't have that discomfort inside that kept me pushing.”

Ifs Littles Home Kids Mother Father Fun Acting Class Struggle Mom Theater Leaving Pushing Little Kid Discomfort Stay At Home Stay At Home Mom Father Leaving

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.”

Years Acting Six Six Year Olds

Author:Jacqueline Emerson

“I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the community theater I was very focused and I loved it. My parents believed in the arts and being well rounded. So I played piano and violin, I danced and acted. They never thought I would go into acting though. They just wanted a well-rounded child and it was a bit of a shock to my dad when I said "I want to go to acting school" because he is a psychology professor and was thinking of something more academic.”

Thinking Children Art School Parent Community Acting Psychology Dad Seven My Dad Focused Snow Academic Snow White Well Rounded

Author:Kristin Davis

“I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.”

Long Wanted School Young Fun Parent Acting Middle Mom Dad My Dad Grades Principal Middle School Counselor Good Grades

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.”

Stories Parent Acting Laughing Bread Grades Here And There Telling Stories Pudding Bread Pudding

Author:Anna Camp

“I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.”

World Years Kind Two Wanted Happenings Decided Work Out Active Partners Firm Two Years Retired

Author:I. M. Pei

“I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.”

Way Two Done Leader Labor Active Strikes Boards March Activist Minors

Author:Gerald Stern

“I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.”

Years Kind Children Stuff Animal Rights Charity Environmental Active All Kinds Animal Rights

Author:Martina Navratilova

“I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.”

Knows Different Kids School Form Awareness High School Raised Bullying Loser Bullied Being Bullied Anti Bullying Bullying Inspirational Inspirational Bullying

Author:Lady Gaga

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