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“I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.”

Children Kids Childhood Eating Corners Sat Lunch Good Childhood Eating Lunch

Author:Jolene Blalock

“I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.”

Balls Thrown

Author:Kevin Millar

“I didn't have a happy childhood.”

Childhood Happy Childhood

Author:Giorgio Armani

“I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.”

Hard Letting Go Hard Times Let It Go

Author:Elliott Smith

“I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.”

World Persons Home Wanted Found Felt Taken

Author:Jens Lekman

“I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.”

Inspirational Self Motivational Funny Jobs Fun Self Esteem My Friends Esteem Interviews Application Job Interview

Author:Tyra Banks

“I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.”

Giving Circumstances Losing Reputation Behave

Author:Jules Feiffer

“I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.”

“I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.”

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.”

Thinking Knows Should Years Two Book Beautiful Next Stars Deals Novel Lists Cinema Next Year Adapted Beautiful Books

Author:Agnes Varda

“I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.”

Thinking Way Mean Quality Ambition Seasons Good Things Pilots Ambitious

Author:Justin Theroux

“I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.”

People Felt Communication Uncomfortable Redneck Hanging On Barricades

Author:Mac Davis

“I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.”

Kids Film Fronts Television Mom Cinema Exposure Single Mom

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.”

Thinking Philosophy Action Political Song Groups Authority Threatening Political Philosophy

Author:Greg Ginn

“I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.”

Firsts Records

Author:Bo Bice

“I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.”

Mother Mama Stature

Author:Al Green

“I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.”

Careers Normal Cinema Academic

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!”

Age Normal Backgrounds Demented

Author:Bill Paxton

“I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.”

Mean Childhood Normal

Author:Tre Cool

“I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.”

Mean Parent Childhood Normal Appreciate

Author:Tre Cool

“I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?”

Knows Particular Persona

Author:Andrea Corr

“I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.”

“I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.”

People Kind Understanding Talking Generations New York Philosophical Old People My Generation People Talking

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.”

Problem Actors Behinds Balls Eight Rejection Rejected Auditions Eight Ball

Author:Robert De Niro

“I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.”

Way Different Play Wanted School Opportunity Creative Abstract Exploring School Experience

Author:Brie Larson

“I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.”

Years Religious Pressure Meaningful Teens Parental Very Mean Very Meaningful

Author:Warren Beatty

“I didn't have a role model when I was younger.”

Roles Models Role Models

Author:Andy Cohen

“I didn't have a sense of how to dress. I still don't really, but, like, back then, I truly had no sense of how to dress because I wanted to be a tomboy - I thought I was a tomboy, but secretly wanted to be girly, but didn't know the first thing about making myself girly. So I ended up like wearing just like sweatpants to school with, like, long T-shirts that I got on family vacations. And it was just weird.”

Knows Firsts Long Stills Wanted School Dresses Shirts Vacation T Shirt Girly Sweatpants Family Vacation

Author:Rachel Bloom

“I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.”

Hours Cities Half Stage Mom Auditions

Author:Nina Dobrev

“I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.”

Thinking Whole Strong Felt Situation Figures Bases Males Stem Day To Day

Author:Mariah Carey

“I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.”

Sweet Wine Teeth Cheese Sauce Curry Sweet Tooth

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.”

Teacher Mary Sister

Author:Christopher Durang

“I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.”

Worry Good Times Phases Teenage Screws Having A Good Time Early 20s

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.”

Thinking Want Sports Picks Coaches Things To Do

Author:Bear Bryant

“I didn't have a ton of role models back in 1998. So, when I was looking to get in, it was really just looking up at all the men who were out there. When you're not seeing women - when you're breaking into anything - it's like, "Well, this is what the men do and how they act, so we're going to just emulate that behavior."”

Men He Man Behavior Role Models

Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco

“I didn't have a very religious family.”

Religious Religious Family

Author:Barbara Walters

“I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.”

School Careers Special Average Mediums Above Average

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I didn't have a vision as in, This is where I'm going. I had a vision as in, "This is what I love to do."”

Vision

Author:Ralph Lauren

“I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.”

Whole Bits Geek

Author:Jim Davis

“I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.”

Made Humor Fun Hard Work Blessing Expectations Harder Disguise Deep Thought Publicity Work Harder Blessings In Disguise

Author:Dustin Penner

“I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.”

Horror Affinity

Author:Jack Kirby

“I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.”

Ifs Knows Band Agents Find Me Headshots

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“I didn't have an agent. I would just write down that I was with my brother's agency, and then the agency would get calls and say that they had no idea who I was.”

Writing Ideas Brother Agents No Idea My Brother Agency

Author:Blake Lively

“I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.”

Force Written Identity Wall Ancient

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.”

Men Church Imagine Childhood Car Brother Mom Type One Day Green Soldier My Mom Tiny Driving My Brother Imaginary Toys Childhood Friend Car Driving Toy Soldiers

Author:Jim Parsons

“I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.”

Ifs Has Beens Saws Television Imaginary Derivatives Imaginary Friend

Author:Dan Santat

“I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?”

Ifs Has Beens Saws Television Prime Imaginary Derivatives Imaginary Friend

Author:Dan Santat

“I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.”

Littles Social Bits Little Bit Exciting Active Teenager Social Life

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.”

School Interest Trouble

Author:Tig Notaro

“I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.”

Writing Stuff Plans Agendas

Author:David Byrne

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