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“I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.”

Mother Father My Own Progress Hospitals Journal Family And Friends Newsletters

Author:Brent Runyon

“I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.”

Home School Found Music Changed

Author:Eminem

“I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.”

Thinking Way Trying Long Has Beens Hard Seeing Fans Long Time My Way Long Road

Author:Chamillionaire

“I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.”

Numbers College Coming Out Outstanding

Author:Victor Cruz

“I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.”

Knows Way Shows Reality Mother Parent Television Fame Benefits Daughter Racing Television Shows Reality Television

Author:Molly Ringwald

“I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.”

People Home Mother Father Parent My Own Roles Grew Grew Up Models Role Models Parental

Author:John Lone

“I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.”

Men Made Age Lost Wish Sex Exciting Lost Time

Author:Elton John

“I didn't have song rights for the first video because I didn't know that it was going to do what it did. So for the second video, I decided better safe than sorry. It is a really gray area as to whether or not you even need song rights to make a video like that.”

Knows Needs Firsts Song Rights Safe Areas Decided Sorry Video Gray Gray Area

Author:Judson Laipply

“I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.”

Mind Reason Nice Consequence Enjoyed Statistics Racing

Author:Michael Schumacher

“I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.”

Enjoy Love Is Behinds Ambition Musician Actresses Intense Enjoyed Get Better

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”

Years Firsts Hard School High School Shy Many Friends

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.”

Social Periods Normal Areas Circles Teenage

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.”

People Thinking Ability Feet Needed Court Blow Legs Preparation

Author:Michael Chang

“I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.”

Opportunity Ambition Newspapers Reporters Broadcasters Newspaper Reporters

Author:Charles Kuralt

“I didn't have the base I needed to win the election”

Winning Needed Election

Author:Rodney Alexander

“I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.”

Knows World Kind Imagination Ambition Lawyer Equipment

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“I didn't have the nicer things. I had to go out and get them.”

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I didn't have the passion for athletics in that way, that there were other parts of me that felt under-served and that needed to be nurtured and needed my energy.”

Way Passion Energy Felt Needed Athletics

Author:Mahershala Ali

“I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.”

Imagination Research Areas Metaphor Fertile

Author:Andrew Bird

“I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.”

Problem Wanted Film Courses Directors Findings Film Directors Finding Myself

Author:Elia Kazan

“I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”

Mind Girl Sports Ability Beats Fitness Other Girl

Author:Martina Hingis

“I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.”

Self Care Attitude Beats Instinct Promotion Self Promotion

Author:Steve Young

“I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.”

Writing Draws

Author:Bob Kane

“I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.”

Way Certain Grows Growing Up Childhood Worst Stuck Limitation Working It

Author:Corey Taylor

“I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.”

Children Determined

Author:Jackie Gleason

“I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.”

Products Circumstances Rebellious Streaks

Author:Brad Katsuyama

“I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.”

Book Real Hard Shows Stuff Study Talent Talent Show

Author:Cheryl Lynn

“I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.”

Artist My Family Busy Muse Too Busy

Author:Leonora Carrington

“I didn't have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have just said, "I've got four to five hours every day that I'm going to go deal with music." I just didn't' have that. I missed a lot of lessons, but I think that maybe was frustrating to me in a big picture sense of, I need the time and energy to put into my instrument.”

Thinking Way Needs Said Bigs Energy Wish Hours Deals Five Four Lessons Instruments Frustrating Big Picture Time And Energy

Author:Jon Gordon

“I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.”

Littles Hands Joy Lying Loses Missing Shapes Findings Beats Corners Excited Shops Little Things Scream Novelty Spaghetti

Author:Jenny Valentine

“I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.”

Years Looks Type Down And

Author:Sharon Olds

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

Writing Long Time Letters

Author:Mark Twain

“I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)”

Break Responsible Busy Gossip Toms Too Busy Cruise Julia Rumours Nicole

Author:George Clooney

“I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.”

Thinking Needs Character Hate Grows Common Happened I Hate Auditions Stew

Author:Casey Affleck

“I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.”

Looks Has Beens Able Artist Certain Natural Revolution Folks Pops Singers Crossings Crossing Over

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.”

People Pops Pop Music

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.”

Church Five Four Paper Function Cracks Routes Saturday Bucks

Author:Len Cariou

“I didn't have to do that much research to present a post-apocalyptic New York because I basically grew up in that New York. That old New York is gone, and that's one thing that's undiscoverable now but I explore in my fiction.”

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I didn't have to do too much "research" or acting to play this guy. (laughs) It is actually very difficult to manage all the time. The Community schedule is crushing and it kills me because I don't get to be with my family as much as I'd like.”

Play Guy Difficult Community Acting Laughing Too Much Research My Family Manage Crush Schedules This Guy Kill Me

Author:Joel McHale

“I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.”

People Ifs Long Records Fit Marketing Smell Labels Rats Old People Mold Phony Record Labels

Author:Anthony Evans

“I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.”

Ifs Way Wanted Spiritual Spirituality Fronts Enlightenment India Blue Everyday Chosen Everyday Life Collars Blue Collar Spiritual Enlightenment

Author:Anthony Kiedis

Source: Scar Tissue

“I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.”

School Graduates

Author:Irene Cara

“I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.”

Wells Play Voice Cricket Rugby

Author:Tom Jones

“I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214”

Trying Simple Wonderful Terrible Despair Painful Convince Ladders Up And Down Joyous Euphoria Simple Truths

Author:Melody Beattie

“I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.”

Ifs Made Bigs Choices Worry Records Wall Clock Plus No Money

Author:Daniel Powter

“I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye write songs and get money from it. So I knew when I put my album out I could just be myself. Not saying I won't do a trap beat or rap over one, but that's just not what makes me. That's not all of CyHi.”

Writing Soul Helping Song Rap Get Money Rap Music

Author:Cyhi the Prynce

“I didn't have to step up into a leadership role, ... I just had to be there and help out where I could. But this year I had to be more of the man.”

Men Years Helping Steps Roles He Man Step Up Leadership Roles

Author:Landon Donovan

“I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.”

Surgery Reconstruction

Author:Eva Herzigova

“I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.”

Years Ideas Shows Waiting Voice Worry Air Six Notes

Author:Lena Dunham

“I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!”

People Needs Faces Fields Mask Scare Halloween

Author:Tommy McDonald

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