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“I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.”

“I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.”

Children Reason Mother Daughter Medical Shops Mother Daughter

Author:Toni Braxton

“I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Life Done Gone

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.”

Said Path Fire Reflection Laughed Captains Elbows

Author:Kristin Cashore

Source: Fire

“I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.”

Years

Author:David Mamet

“I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.”

People Years Kind Use Courses Language Pay Dare Storm Broadway Buffalo

Author:David Mamet

“I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.”

Littles Different Shapes Conscious Lifetime Size Teenager Idols Australian Different Shapes And Sizes

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”

World Critics Statues

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.”

People Ifs World Country My Own Deals Successful Strange Scientist Companion Invitations

Author:Robert Winston

“I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.”

World Guy Culture Jake Milan

Author:John Landis

“I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.”

World Bigs Rings Hey Explanation Old World

Author:Sam the Sham

“I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.”

Different Shapes Size Different Times Different Shapes And Sizes

Author:Geri Halliwell

“I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.”

Stills Character My Own

Author:Rue McClanahan

“I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful”

Years Moments Past Grows Careers Twenties Trapped Selflessness Thankfulness Over The Past Very Thankful

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.”

Years Eight Bother

Author:Nan Goldin

“I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.”

I Can Whole Whole Life

Author:James Frey

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.”

Problem Consciousness Design Discipline Assuming Designer Problem Solving Reincarnation Amazed Decoration Good Design

Author:Jeffrey Veen

Source: The Art & Science of Web Design

“I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.”

People Song Walks Series Excited Fantastic Amazed Popular Song

Author:Victor Garber

“I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.”

School Evidence Program Critics Slogans Effectiveness Business School Mba Mba Programs

Author:Charles R. Morris

“I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought it might be a good idea to try to develop a show and as we started talking about the show that we might bring to air, it turned into doing a newsmagazine.”

“I've been an activist all my life. And always a liberal activist, for the simple reason that it is on the liberal left that you find the true recognition for the need for fairness in society. I'm not saying equality, because that you can never achieve, because equality is based on such complex criteria. But fairness is another issue.”

Needs Reason Left Simple Issues Achieve Complexes Recognition Activist Fairness Criteria

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.”

Knows Years Fighting Actors Hurt Know How Basics

Author:Julie Benz

“I've been an actor since I was a kid.”

Kids Actors

Author:Derek Magyar

“I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.”

Long Long Time Elegance Admiring Admirer Poise Helen Older Women

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts.”

People Thinking Space Views Fire Genius Mountain Unique Opposites Transmission

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.”

People Way Long Able Long Time Public Education

Author:Mary Burke

“I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.”

Ifs Knows Wells Long I Can Light Happens Remember Turns Atheism Okay Positive Atheism Things Happen Agnostic Turned Off

Author:John Chancellor

“I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.”

Photographer Teens

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I've been an amature inventor for a long time.”

Long Long Time Inventor

Author:Billy Sheehan

“I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.”

World Want Nations Sex Huge Baby Messages Singing Hot Presses Heal Globes Treaties Goodwill Ambassadors Weirdo Battered Tubs Heal The World Hot Tub

Author:Michael Jackson

“I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?”

Years Animal Rights Agendas Activist Vegan Animal Rights Animal Rights Activists

Author:Moby

“I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down to your price points."”

Knows Guy Boys Apples Doing Right

Author:Rob Corddry

“I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold them to my classmates for a dime. I studied painting. Originally I was a design and illustration major, but I met this girl. Back then, if you were a designer, you were a real sellout, and she was a real hardcore painter. I knew she would never take me seriously unless I was an art major, so I switched majors to fine arts. Anyway, we're married now. So it worked. How I got to my style? I'm a weird artist in that everything I do looks a little different.”

Art Different Real Artist Girl Forever Style Design Painting Married Painter Designer Fine Arts Hardcore Classmates

Author:Tony Tasset

“I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.”

Years Havens Seven Coaching Interviews Seven Years Assistants

Author:Patrick Ewing

“I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven”

Heaven Heard Atheist Stairways Stairway To Heaven

Author:Stella Young

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

Ifs World Years Reason Happens Would Be Mother Religious Strange Mom Atheist My Mom Nine Nine Years

Author:Tarsem Singh

“I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.”

Sports Figures Adults Athlete I Realized Tennis Skating Skater

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.”

Athlete Work Out Schedules

Author:Apolo Ohno

“I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.”

Thinking Shows My Own Media Tvs Basketball Athlete Radio Nba Tv Shows Always Thinking

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York.”

Play Faces Lying Enjoy Audience New York Members Lifestyle

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.”

People Thinking World Young Literature Stuff Behinds Fantasy Novel Adults Young Adult Consumers Avid Fantasy Worlds

Author:Diablo Cody

“I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.”

Ifs Stills Different Wish Gone If I Could Employee Routes Ruling Great Times Had A Great Time Rewind

Author:Stuart Rose

“I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.”

Challenges Focus Findings Solutions Entrepreneur Addresses Healthcare Entrepreneurial

Author:Naveen Jain

“I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.”

Motivation Three Company Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Three Times

Author:Marc Andreessen

“I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.”

Stills Degrees Baptists

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.”

Way Years Running Exercise Adults Eight Miles Ran Marathon Maniacs Running Marathon Triathlon

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Thinking Real Real Life Idiot Happy Endings

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“I've been an imperfect servant of my country for many years. But I have been her servant first, last and always. And I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Country Lasts Privilege Servant Good Times Thank God Imperfect

Author:John McCain

“I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.”

Knows Want Stories Reading Easy Realizing Four Groups Reader Sitting Discovery Magazines Teenager Chairs

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.”

Should Engaged Senators Supporter Campaigning Obama Supporters

Author:Pete Wentz

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