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“I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things”

Accomplish I Realized Wrong Things

Author:Jane McGonigal

“I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.”

Stories

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.”

Acting

Author:Katey Sagal

“I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.”

School Figures Decided University California Guidance Southern Southern California Brochures

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.”

Knows Art Ideas Use Wanted Force Class Middle Painting Periods Calling Method West Fantastic Propaganda Germany Middle Class Nazi Adopted Intimidation Bleak Nazi Germany Use Of Force

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.”

Bits Discrimination Beach Realising Bus Vague Naive Segregation Apartheid

Author:John Deacon

“I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.”

Invasion

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I didn't aim at anything except good music.”

Aim

Author:Waylon Jennings

“I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.”

Heart Break My Heart Breaking My Heart

Author:Randeep Hooda

“I didn't alter the footballs in any way”

Way Football

Author:Tom Brady

“I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.”

People Night Hanging Out Saturday Saturday Night

Author:Taylor Swift

“I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.”

Care Friendship Careful Take Care

Author:Loretta Claiborne

“I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.”

Real Problem Wanted School Practice College High School Real Problems

Author:Jon Gordon

“I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.”

People Knows Ideas Helping Wanted School Psychology High School Helping Others Therapists

Author:Alex Gaskarth

“I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.”

Knows Wanted Sports Goal Careers Honor Rings Being The Best Cowboy Receiver Rookies

Author:Michael Irvin

“I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.”

Names Parent Wall Bills Drawing Spells Cartoon

Author:Bil Keane

“I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.”

Way Made Lines Decision Walks Football Angel Nfl Straight Lines Best Football Right Decision

Author:Marshall Faulk

“I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.”

Want Writing Stills Play Might Able School Passion Acting Study College High School Primaries This Day My Passion Nyu

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“I didn't always want to be a dad.”

Want Dad

Author:Liam Gallagher

“I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.”

Way Book Might Purpose Influence Internet Positively

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“I didn't answer, but, please - nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.”

Simple Answers Boys Please Creatures Obvious

Author:Rick Riordan

“I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.”

Way Whole Body Pleasure Quality Absence Leap Grandparent Anticipate Primal Physicality Grandson

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“I didn't apply to different schools. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do.”

Different School

Author:Frank Caliendo

“I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.”

Left Appreciate Brooklyn

Author:Rosie Perez

“I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.”

World Stars Rocks Appreciate Ultimate Defined Rock Star Adventurous Swagger Jagger

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.”

Important Facts Young Suffering Felt Appreciate Dignity Importance Add Fats Obsessed Gravity Young Women Topics

Author:Margaret Cho

“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”

People Principles Murder Begging

Author:Josh Lanyon

“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Mind Law Universe Understanding Fundamentals Rational Physicist Rationalism Lack Of Understanding

Author:Albert Einstein

“I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.”

Ends Asks Boys Boards Posters

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.”

Mother Asks Water Violin Trumpets

Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk

“I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.”

Asks Born

Author:Frank Wedekind

“I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.”

Asks

Author:Thom Yorke

“I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.”

Thinking Might Asks Decision Roles Models Adults Dinner Posts Acknowledge Role Models Living My Life Thrust Thinking Ahead

Author:Nick Jonas

“I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.”

Hands Courses Asks Behinds Irrational Delightful Catch Me

Author:Shana Abe

“I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.”

Enough Sports Athlete Champion Tennis Good Enough Aspire Good Sports

Author:Fred Perry

“I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.”

Writing Careers Aspire

Author:Vantile Whitfield

“I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.”

Court Proceeding

Author:Norma McCorvey

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'”

Shows Fun Hours Roles Excited Shooting Auditions Haunting Intruders

Author:Willow Shields

“I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office... It was his screening room in his office, actually, and I sat and schmoozed with him for about two minutes, which I think is standard, and, y'know, we got on fine.”

Thinking Knows Two Rooms Minutes Fine Office Standards Sat Auditions Screening

Author:Brent Spiner

“I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.”

Actors Born

Author:Sally Field

“I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.”

Sports Bed Beats

Author:O. J. Simpson

“I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.”

“I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.”

Hard Comedian

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Artist Successful Design Like You Dirty Dirty Words Successful Artists

Author:Phil Collins

“I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.”

Drug Addict Drug Addict

Author:John Waters

“I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.”

Mean Book Stories Five Huge Six Portions Fixing Good Writers Spelling

Author:Louis Sachar

“I didn't become a writer to write about me.”

Writing

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.”

Wanted Actors Accepted Marine Biologist Marine Biologist

Author:Willie Aames

“I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.”

Happens Action Actors Opportunity

Author:Tom Cruise

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