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“I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.”

Author:Bernie Mac

“I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.”

People World Funny Technology Social Network Fake Friends Antisocial Choosing Friends

Author:Andy Borowitz

“I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.”

Can Do Actresses Schizophrenic

Author:Carla Gugino

“I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.”

Done Water Feet Airplane Dove

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I've just always been a bit of a dork.”

Author:Nate Silver

“I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.”

World Ancient Around The World Grandfather Coins My Grandfather Collecting Collectors

Author:Kellan Lutz

“I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.”

Term Fans Wind Take Me Outsiders Balloons

Author:Chris Bauer

“I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.”

Ifs Writing Said Able Reader Importance Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother

Author:Kevin Gates

“I've just always been interested in how people lead their lives. How they survive in this world. I'm curious about people's damage, and navigating that and the way people forgive. I find it really interesting. That's why we have to transform on a daily basis, work on ourselves. It's work.”

People World Interesting Forgiving Curious Really Interesting

Author:Nicole Kidman

“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.”

Needs Humans Looks Persons Art I Can Kids Artist Human Beings Heard Performances Function Breathe Release Artistic Sensitive Look At Me Outlets Sensitive Person Skit

Author:Tinsel Korey

“I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.”

I Can Opportunity Waiting Perfect Ready Careful Granted Don't Take Anything For Granted

Author:Katy Perry

“I've just always had a boyfriend my whole life, and I've - now I'm really focusing on myself and I think that's more important right now.”

Thinking Important Whole Right Now Whole Life

Author:Paris Hilton

“I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.”

Thinking Kind War Character Myth Civil War Stereotype Fascination Abraham

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I've just always loved animals.”

Author:Doris Day

“I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.”

Ifs Doe Animal Organization Nonprofits

Author:Cate Marvin

“I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.”

Singing Tables Kitchen Kitchen Table

Author:Jane Lynch

“I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.”

Voice My Best Friend

Author:Paul Potts

“I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.”

Firsts Stories Wanted Five Written

Author:Jami Attenberg

“I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.”

Thinking Want Helping Sports Drink Conscious Help Me Urges

Author:Payne Stewart

“I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.”

Ideas Someday Calmness Peacefulness

Author:Ellie Goulding

“I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.”

Seems Left Machines Possession Golden Making Money Outlets Tunnels

Author:Aristotle Onassis

“I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing around with the kids, so no one can reach me. Blissful. I heartily recommend it.”

Kids Week Sea Blackberries

Author:Nick Clegg

“I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?”

Mean Doe Night Vampire Necks Annoying Mosquitoes

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.”

Motivational Past Fun Bits Sports Enjoy Too Much Training Pressure Athlete Relax Tonight Motivational Sports Swim Swimming

Author:Sophie Edington

“I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.”

Phones Boards Chairman

Author:Carol Bartz

“I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.”

People Giving Looks Said Jobs Young Guy Black Levels Military Smart Soldier Defense Admire Black Women Testimony Email Latino Whips Contractor Supervisors

Author:Steve Inskeep

“I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.”

Humans Records Fortunate Wheels Single

Author:John Mellencamp

“I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.”

Firsts Pain Suffering Hurt Results Growing Months Couple Hot Painful Diets Gym It Hurts Great Results

Author:Mary J. Blige

“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

Wanted Hurt Worst Comfort Imagining Things

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

“I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.”

Opportunity My Own Creative Taken Direct Video Costumes Choreography

Author:Santigold

“I've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.”

Normal Sitting Shopping Going Out Doing Nothing Normal Life Arses

Author:Lady Sovereign

“I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.”

Would Be Felt Lucky Strategy Being Cool

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.”

Author:Marisa Tomei

“I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.”

Ifs Want Done Play Film Months Right Now Six My Family Going Away Broadway Six Months Want To Go Away

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.”

Lifetime Holiday Once In A Lifetime

Author:Tim Vine

“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”

“I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.”

Reading Challenges Yeah Cycling

Author:Joey Santiago

“I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.”

Too Much Lucky Stereotype

Author:Marisa Tomei

“I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.”

Writing Stills Song Stuff Guitar Electric Writing Songs Acoustics Electric Guitar

Author:Phillip Phillips

“I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.”

Kind Guy Most Romantic Very Romantic Taj Mahal Mahal

Author:Danny Boyle

“I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.”

Knows Way Use Common Taken India Plant Western Corporations Meat Vegetables Rice Patents

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I've just been training and working on my speed. I want to be faster, Everyone knows that the more speed you have the more of a threat you can be in the NFL. For me I have been working on my speed and being more explosive. Everyone knows I can get the 10- or 15-yard runs, but I want to have the 60- and 70-yard runs.”

Knows Want Has Beens I Can Running Training Threat Speed Faster Nfl Yards Explosives

Author:Giovani Bernard

“I've just been very excited that over the years I've constantly had those types of different experiences. I like staying a little bit like acting school, not experimental, necessarily, but just fun. I have the best job in the world: I pretend for a living. You can't get too precious about that.”

World Different School Fun Acting Excited

Author:Rosario Dawson

“I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.”

People Thinking Knows Ideas Helping My Own Mistake Couple Bounds Release

Author:JD Era

“I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.”

Trying Hard Stuff Work

Author:David Duval

“I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.”

Way Writing Effects Towns Administration Twins New Orleans Columns

Author:Martin Walker

“I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.”

Thinking Artist Bits Dare

Author:David Lean

“I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”

Thinking Mean West Mississippi Arkansas

Author:Pat Buchanan

“I've just come back from Vegas, and I was in on the caucus process. It's insane. What a mess. And also with these particular candidates who are running, so many times I said, "I just wish Kurt Vonnegut were alive." This is like something he would be writing. This is just crazy stuff. I would love to hear his take on it.”

Writing Said Would Be Running Wish Stuff Process Alive Crazy Particular Insane Mess Candidates Vegas Like Something Caucus

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I've just come to realize I'm going to share my point of view. Some people won't like me for it. Some people will. I will work every day to be as honest as I can because I do believe that we're all trying to get to the same place. But various people have tricked us into believing that we are not. And I see America going into that space.”

People Trying Believe I Can America Realizing Space Views Share Honest Various Point Of View Like Me

Author:Trevor Noah