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“I didn't come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.”

“I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.”

Years Firsts Age Wanted Television First Time Radio East Magazines Mississippi

Author:Sam Donaldson

“I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.”

Fighting Saws Tvs Couple Healthy Backgrounds Splits Uncles Aunt Healthy Relationship Aunts And Uncles

Author:George Lopez

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

Said Kids Mother Fighting Let Me Aggressive Household

Author:Mike Tyson

“I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.”

Backgrounds Traditional Urban Metropolitan

Author:George Osborne

“I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.”

Made Class Middle Car Grew Mom Proud Dad Walking Grew Up My Dad My Mom Parks Middle Class Lunch Sixteen Trailers Trailer Park

Author:Kid Rock

“I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.”

Ifs Firsts Today Young Comedy First Time Starting Quitting Wealthy Assets No Money Naivete

Author:Steve Martin

“I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.”

People Ifs Kind Ideas Would Be College Towns Be Good Backgrounds Academic Pretense Pretension

Author:Sarah Vowell

“I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.”

Made Situation Worst Lucky Appreciated Worst Situation

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.”

Author:Willie Nelson

“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”

Way I Can Home Spiritual My Own Take Me Accord

Author:Rumi

Source: Selected poems

“I didn't come here to be average.”

Average

Author:Michael Jordan

“I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.”

Play Running President Rocks Rock And Roll

Author:Katy Perry

“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.”

Writing Years Felt Player Band Guitar Singers Cracks Songwriters Guitar Player Writing Poetry Vocalist

Author:Paul Banks

“I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production process and producers in general.”

Found Process Productions Producers

Author:Pusha T

“I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair”

Bigs Hair Arguing Big Hair

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz

“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”

Country Change Party Labour Labour Party

Author:Tony Blair

Source: New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country

“I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.”

Business Titles Awards

Author:Julie Walters

“I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.”

Pay Claims Painful Sexuality Nervous Lgbt

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“I didn't come out of a cereal box.”

Boxes Cereal

Author:Bob Dylan

“I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.”

Vision Hollywood Subservient

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.”

Want Actors Drink Hollywood Great Actors Getting High

Author:Tom Sizemore

“I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.”

People Kind Enjoy Party Hollywood Lifestyle Magazines Collections Porsche Magazine Covers

Author:Wentworth Miller

“I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.”

People Wish Hollywood Phony

Author:Mr. T

“I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.”

People Trying Wells Country Facts Inspiration Cities Musician Draws Roots Studios Attraction Singers Variety Hats Pulling Cowboy Flexibility Nashville Country Singer Cowboy Hat Music City

Author:John Oates

“I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.”

Stars Sports New York Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Reggie Jackson

“I didn't come to play. I came to win.”

Play Winning

Author:Kamahl

“I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.”

Differences Making A Difference

Author:Lawton Chiles

“I didn't completed my University Education”

University University Education

Author:Bill Gates

“I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.”

Forget Careers Nice Feminine Being Nice

Author:Mindy Kaling

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Superwoman Super Woman

Author:John Marsden

Source: A Killing Frost

“I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.”

Men Wells

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.”

World Way Country Fashion Stupid Ambition London Resistance Designer Punk Rebellious My Ambition Fashion Designer Very Stupid

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I`m not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.”

Want Mind Persons Huge Baby Engraved

Author:Rachel Dratch

“I didn't cook for the competition, I cooked for myself, I cooked for my loved ones, I cooked to represent my culture, I cooked to represent Chinese-American immigrants. I was proud of what I was able to accomplish under the conditions.”

Able Culture Conditions Proud Competition Accomplish Chinese Cooks Immigrants Loved Ones

Author:Shirley Chung

“I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.”

Games Cost Seasons Series

Author:Keith Hernandez

“I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world.”

World Mean Mad

Author:Billy West

“I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it”

Thug Thug Life

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.”

Lines Crosses

Author:Russell Brand

“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.”

Years Long Real Courses Father Felt Cry One Day Late Sick Twenties Finals Guilty Broke Funeral Late Twenties

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.”

Stills Age Cases Middle Cry Bags Middle Ages Handkerchiefs

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.”

Home Left Natural Risk Cry Paper Paid Papers Vulgar

Author:Julie Burchill

“I didn't cut no corners, I just gave it my heart and soul.”

Heart Soul Cutting My Heart Corners Heart And Soul

Author:Styles P

“I didn't dare let my mind wander off.”

Mind Dare Wander

Author:Kate Bush

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”

Thinking Stills Past Happenings Dare

Author:John Grisham

“I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.”

Made Dream Courses Dollars Dare Making Money Pencils Dare To Dream Sharpening Sharpening Pencils

Author:David Rees

“I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.”

Fall Happened Photography Photographer

Author:Berenice Abbott

“I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.”

Age Late Musician

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.”

Ifs Running Wanted Political President Ambition Campaigns Reform My Ambition Crusades Political Reform

Author:John McCain

Source: Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir

“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.”

Years Made Home Would Be Wanted Asks Fun Parent Lessons Band My Friends Instruments Piano Never Quit Piano Lesson Playing Piano

Author:Andrew Hollander

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