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“I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.”

“I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.”

“I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"”

Firsts Two Week Rocks Picks University Biology Toys First Love Bike Marine Two Weeks Biologist Vets Marine Biologist

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.”

Felt Weekend

Author:Sophia Amoruso

“I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.”

Two Ears Rings Cups Hockey Stanley Stanley Cup

Author:Patrick Roy

“I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.”

Children Father Kissing Raises My Children

Author:Payne Stewart

“I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.”

Feels Three Lines Feet College Couple Comfort Comfortable Areas Wings Corners Pointers

Author:David Lee

“I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.”

Balls Golf

Author:Fred Couples

“I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.”

Judging Treats Pointing Humiliate Judge Me

Author:Jay Asher

Source: The Future of Us

“I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.”

Problem Able Crazy Fortunate Great Success

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.”

Writing House Rooms Break Barriers Maps

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.”

Children Stories Wanted Couple Finished Short Story Story Writers

Author:Grace Paley

“I didn't intend to become an actor.”

Actors

Author:Anthony Quinn

“I didn't intend to work on the issue of child marriage, but I felt like it was a topic that is related to a lot of the other issues, like acid attacks, self-immolation, and female genital mutilation. I wanted to continue to drive the conversation, but my overall goal is to protect girls. Photography has a way of addressing the viewer whether they want to deal with it or not, and that's why photography is such a good medium for documenting the issues that girls face.”

Children Girl Goal Protect Photography Female That Girl

Author:Stephanie Sinclair

“I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."”

People Thinking Writing Looks I Can Totems Constrain Auden

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.”

Ifs Want Art Form Pressure Wrong Words

Author:Grace Paley

“I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it coming, and I did intentionally not cut it from some of the final drafts. In other words, I'm not particularly interested in encouraging readers to read certain stories that way, but I want to make sure that route's accessible should anyone be so inclined.”

Way Want Should Firsts Stories Political Certain Reading Saws Cutting Materials Reader Needed Finals Sooner Or Later Routes Raw Materials

Author:Roy Kesey

“I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.”

People World Want Whole America Life Is Causes Scared Whole World Rapper Panic Introducing Thug Panic Attacks Thug Life

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.”

Bigs Culture Mystery Classic Stereotype Cartoon Personal Experiences

Author:Robert Crumb

“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.”

People Firsts Interesting Medicine Forensics

Author:Patricia Cornwell

“I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.”

Men Way Water Honest Approach Hot Shirts Lace Hot Water Leggings

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.”

Trying Culture Doping

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.”

Use Middle Fingers Middle Finger

Author:Ted Nugent

“I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.”

Thinking Men Trying Kind Mean Life Is Stuff Can Do Lines My Favorite All Kinds All Time Dry Good And Bad Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day

Author:Valerie Thomas

“I didn't invent the rainy day. I just own the best umbrella.”

Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.”

Polaroids

Author:Brigid Berlin

“I didn't investigate Hillary Clinton before she was in office, I started investigated Hillary Clinton's actions after the inspector-general said that there was classified information housed in a non-classified setting.”

Said Action Information Office Clinton Setting Settings Inspectors Classified Information

Author:Jason Chaffetz

“I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.”

Happened Band Accidents

Author:Ian Astbury

“I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.”

Fall Imagine Tree Sky Walking Mirrors Height Stairs

Author:Beth Orton

“I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.”

Wave Coattails

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.”

Fall Dieting Wagons

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.”

Ideas Great Idea Last Sacrifice

Author:Richelle Mead

“I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.”

People Children Different Grows Easy Growing Up Environment Different Peoples

Author:Clifton Collins, Jr.

“I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.”

Wanted Grows Growing Up Horse

Author:Clare Balding

“I didn't just invent saying offensive things.”

Offensive

Author:Eminem

“I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.”

Inspirational Winning Sports Results Lows Athlete Motivational Sports Bike Ups & Downs

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.”

People Film Directors Observers Film Directors

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.”

“I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.”

Ifs Want Ends Wanted Boys Involved Method Hearing Operations Posters Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.”

Want Hard Mother Jokes Daughter Boots Frank

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.”

Want Wanted Mistake Members Family Members My Mistakes

Author:Tig Notaro

“I didn't just want to do something that looks good, but get a product that lasts too.”

Want Looks Lasts Products

Author:Esteban Cortazar

“I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.”

Want Satisfied

Author:Jonny Lang

“I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.”

Writing Boys Nostalgia Hello

Author:Avril Lavigne

“I didn't kill innocent people.”

People Innocent

Author:Bill Ayers

“I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].”

Knows Wanted Directors Entitled

Author:Laura Vandervoort

“I didn't know a damn thing about style.”

Knows Style Damn Umpires Damn Things

Author:Michael Bergin

“I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.”

Knows Illness Mental Illness

Author:George McGovern

“I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.”

Knows Should Women Known Should Have Flying Aviation Pilots Amelia Should Have Known

Author:Linda Finch

“I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.”

Knows Two War Age Three Eight My Time Coal Cellars

Author:David Bailey

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