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“It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.”

Littles Important Desire Hours Achieve Instruments Burning Worthwhile Devoted Compensation Burning Desire Desire To Achieve

Author:Billy Sheehan

“It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ]. I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.”

Art Helping School Form Artist Voice Cities New York High School Inspired Crafts Performing New York City Harness Be Inspired Performing Arts

Author:Aisha Hinds

“It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.”

House Interest Disease Hull Hull House

Author:Alice Hamilton

Source: Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.

“It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.”

Done Leader Groups Movement Organization Hated

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“It was also revealed that the reason I am cruel to others is because I have low-self-esteem. Because I don’t love myself, I am unable to understand those who do love me in spite of it all, and so I test them. “You love me even when I do this? Or this? Or this?” Even when the other person forgives me, I am unable to understand their forgiveness, and when they give up on me, I torture and console myself with the “fact” that no one could ever love me. That goddamn self-esteem. [...] Looking more closely at myself, there are parts that I've improved on. I still remain someone who is unable to love herself. But as I had that thought, I had another: light and darkness are part of the same thing. Happiness and unhappiness alternate throughout life, as in a dance. So as long as I keep going and don’t give up, surely I will keep having moments of tears and laughter. This book, therefore, ends not with answers but with a wish. I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don’t hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time. Some day, I will.”

Psychology Self Help Mental Health Memoir Contemporary Nonfiction Autobiography Adult Cultural Asian Literature

Author:Baek Se-hee

Source: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“It was also then that the women of Ak&‌ccedil;ah started a new custom. Underneath their garments they wrapped cloth bands around their waists to squeeze them tight. They were so awed by Zekiye's thin waist that, for a while, they ignored Atiye when she reminded them that this waist-thinning method wouldn't work unless they had started very young. But the women kept their waistbands on until the sheep-mating season to see what would happeend. Then they all began to wheeze. They found that in their zeal for having thin waists they had afflicted themselves with shortness of breath, coughing, flushes and sweating. A few had sores on their hands, faces and other parts of their bodies. Three women had problems with their eyes and speech. And when their waists started to swell up like logs, they all took off the cloth bands. "We're well past the age of waist-thinning," they said. All the same, they considered it their duty as mothers to raise their daughters to be as slender as Zekiye. They took lessons in the art of waist-thinning from Atiye and soon discovered that plastic bags were more effective than cloth bands. Thereafter, whenever they had girl babies, they would wash them with three bowls of water as soon as the umbilical cord was cut and then wrap plastic bags around their waists, blowing prayers on them all the while.”

Beauty Standards Thinness

Author:Latife Tekin

Source: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm

“It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!”

Wonderful Perspective Scripts Terrific Nicholson

Author:Kathy Bates

“It was also, however, a favorite place for novices to stand and wait for innocent students to slip up by talking too loudly between classes. No novice has ever been created that could keep Gina quiet, however.”

Waiting Talking Class Students Quiet Innocent Slips Novices Favorite Places Gina

Author:Meg Cabot

Source: Mean Spirits

“It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'.”

Author:Cher

“It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.”

Home Challenges Successful Prove West Financial Russia Investors

Author:Alisher Usmanov

“It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.”

Writing White Race Novel Assumption Angle American Writer False Assumptions

Author:Jess Row

“It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.”

Knows Looks Kind Children Littles Wanted Funny House Fantasy Growing Up Growing Mines Mom Program Dresses My Favorite My Mom Prairie Little House On The Prairie

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.”

Thinking Asks Names Ask Me Funny Things Brooklyn

Author:Brooklyn Sudano

“It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.”

Stills Challenges Albums Core

Author:Neige

“It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible.”

Love Madness

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

Source: Until August

“It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.”

Thinking Writing I Can Might Stuff Pleasure Contracts Deadline Hacked

Author:Stephen King

“It was always a question of being present in mind and consciousness – I liked that Anita constantly challenged.”

Life Truth Reflection Contemplation Attributed No Source Anita Roddick

Author:Gordon Roddick

“It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.”

Moments Home Water Cutting Blood Skins Relief That Moment Knives

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.”

Moments Fire Wind Wander Memorable Slips Thrill Wraps Hesitation Cocoons

Author:Corey Taylor

“It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.”

Knows World Bigs Together Games Wish United Fans Proud Ambition Incredibles Passionate Clubs Managers League Arena Manchester Knowledgeable Manchester United Premier League

Author:Louis van Gaal

“It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.”

Love Lost Source Pure Hunger Denied Lost Love Fulfilled Unrequited Love Twisted Obsessive Unrequited Parental Love Always Hunger For Love

Author:James W. Hall

Source: Magic City: A Novel

“It was always about the future of writers, and about the way writers are treated in the future, and I think that was really hurtful to a lot of people in my position who had 160 people who depended on them to get this over with. So there was a lot of pain in it, and in that sense it will never be worth it, but I do think it was important.”

People Thinking Way Important Pain Position Treated Worth It Hurtful

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“It was always about the men. They seemed to think it meant nothing to cook and clean and bear children and tend gardens. But we women of the Great Plains worked from sunup to sundown too, too, toiled on wheat farms until we were as dry and baked as the land we loved.”

Men Work Feminism

Author:Kristin Hannah

Source: The Four Winds

“It was always about the story rather than the character.”

Character Stories

Author:Jean Dujardin

“It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.”

Acting Brother Dad

Author:Patrick Wilson

“It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.”

Acting Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing Singing Dancing

Author:Linda Lavin

“It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.”

People Dream Forget Pleasure Acting Audience Pieces Fronts Horror Quiet Singing Dancing Piano Performing Panic Fulfilling Singing And Dancing Quiet People

Author:Linda Lavin

“It was always after reading tales such as these that she wondered how on earth it was that some young ladies did not read at all, or declared they had no interest in it. Didn't they know how you could feel so much from a book? Didn't they know how your heart could race and break from words on a page? Had they never read something so wonderful and horrible that they felt as though the very would should stop and pause to acknowledge the depth of feeling it produced?”

Feelings Reading Books Emotions Depth Of Emotions Depth Of Feelings

Author:Margaux Gillis

Source: Ravenwood

“It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing”

Said Journalist Apples Amusing

Author:Donald A. Norman

“It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.”

Thinking Would Be Grew Grew Up Professors

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“It was always assumed that I would go to college.”

College

Author:Paul D. Boyer

“It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.”

Wanted Baseball

Author:Joe Mauer

“It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.”

Clear Reader

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.”

Difficult Cattle

Author:Dave Eggers

Source: What is the What

“It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.”

Littles Form Term Masters Disappointing

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.”

Respect Opinions

Author:Leah Cypess

Source: Nightspell

“It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.”

Trying Shows Light Felt Sun Sweet Easier Embrace Glasses Butterfly Unbearable Constellations Light Up Comets

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.”

Easy Born Rich Lucky

Author:Yahoo Serious

“It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein’s contribution to the field was reformulative and second-tier.”

College Professors Textbooks

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

Source: The Marriage Plot

“It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.”

Moments Turns My Own Steps Dangerous Danger Materials Exciting Constant Tension Nerves Every Step Tolls Warrants

Author:Diet Eman

“It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice.”

Life Living Falling Down Failures Being Alive Collapsing

Author:George Saunders

Source: Liberation Day

“It was always fun auditioning for commercials, because that was the beginning of my career, and me figuring out how I was going to portray myself as an actress vs. a model, because models were very different back then in the early '70s. They didn't usually hire models for acting. But I acted first in commercials and then I did modeling, so it was a little different.”

Different Fun Acting Modeling

Author:P. J. Soles

“It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.”

World Fun Sports Hours Leadership Baseball Swings Bats Working A Lot

Author:Ted Williams

“It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!”

Found Fun Black Drug Heavy Meaning Of Life Cocaine Sabbath Hallelujah Black Sabbath

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.”

Fun Sports Skates Martini

Author:Nancy Kerrigan

“It was always going to be a blues, soul, and rock-'n'-roll thing, because those are our ingredients. That's where we come from, and that's how we write. I think it has just become larger. We've just been able to use our imaginations so much more.”

Thinking Writing Soul Imagination

Author:Daniel Taylor

“It was always hard for me to really make friends, but that's just because I like to stay home.”

Hard Home

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .”

Hard Enough Stories Felt Intriguing

Author:Ron Howard

“It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.”

“It was always her in the mirror I kissed.”

Kiss Mirror

Author:PrinceOfPoets

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