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“I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge”

Knows Long Two Wheels Vans Nudge Two Wheels

“I didn't know about the Bond girl thing. I was approached very quickly, boom, boom, boom, it happened.”

“I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.”

Knows World Realizing Fashion Superficial Fashion World

Author:Tom Riley

“I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.”

Knows Home Class Clean Ovens Bastille

Author:David Sedaris

Source: Holidays on Ice

“I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.”

Knows Pieces Changed Adults Finished

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.”

People Knows Childhood Gay Doomed Gay People

Author:Dolly Parton

“I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.”

Knows Acting Comedy

Author:Desi Arnaz

Source: A Book

“I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.”

Knows Cancer Breasts Survivor Breast Cancer Cancer Survivor Breast Cancer Survivor

Author:Rue McClanahan

“I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.”

Knows Years Art Left Stuff Painting Happenings Exciting Painter Holiday Elsewhere Kansas Conceptual Art

Author:David Salle

“I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.”

Knows Growing Up Growing Fashion Band Orange County Orange County

Author:Gwen Stefani

“I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.”

Knows Believe Know How Fashion Right Now Sitting

Author:Adriana Lima

“I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just as important as the picture. The sound, picture, and ideas have to marry. If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Important Ideas Film Felt Sound Critical Mood Painter Carrie

Author:David Lynch

“I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.”

Knows Dies Culture Novel Knowing Pops Brown Pop Culture

Author:Wes Bentley

“I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.”

Knows Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Chris Hughes

“I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.”

People Knows Stories Grows Growing Up

Author:Judy Blume

“I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.”

Knows Writing Screenplays Rewriting

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.”

Knows Stills Able Car Red Credit Flags Vehicle December Red Flags Foreclosure

Author:Claude Brown

“I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.”

Knows Way Firsts Two Mother Father Speak Language One Way Canada

Author:Louis St. Laurent

“I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.”

Knows Writing I Can Stories Response Winter Harsh Retrospect Minnesota Dixie

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.”

Knows Giving Energy Battle Emcee

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!”

People Knows I Can Can Do Roles Office Boxes Lovely Box Office

Author:Olivia Williams

“I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.”

Knows World Way Wells Seems Curiosity Charlie Junkie

Author:Benny Carter

“I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly.”

Knows Children Song

Author:Onew

“I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.”

Knows Done Dirty Dirty Words

Author:Peter Cook

“I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil War was the end of slavery, and the triumph of our collective conscience and humanity over oppression. Sadly, the oppression and systemic subjugation of people of color in this country still exists.”

People Thinking War Country Enough Humanity Easy Conscience Slavery Oppression Civil War

Author:Bryce Pinkham

“I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.”

“I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.”

Knows Would Be Voice Wife Musical My Wife Tone Discussing Funny Marriage

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.”

Knows Wanted School Students Adequate Full Potential

Author:Barry Sanders

“I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.”

Knows Fashion Labels Stylist

Author:Meghan Trainor

“I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.”

Knows Way Country Home Running Found House Left Feminism Mom My Mom

Author:Joss Whedon

“I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.”

Thinking Knows Way Growing Up Study Growing Communication Music Is Folks Traditional Storyteller Folk Music Bards Minstrels Traditional Music

Author:PJ Harvey

“I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.”

People Knows Way Giving Important Wanted Decision Growing Up Democracy Growing Information Journalism Urges Good Decision Broadcast Journalism

Author:Mort Crim

“I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. So I went to the school and, being a smart cookie - as they called us in those days - I had a million questions. How did this place exist? How come I didn't know about it? Why are people living like this? Do they want to live like this?”

People School Smart

Author:Lynne Stewart

“I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.”

Knows Funny British

Author:Woody Allen

“I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest.”

Knows Mind Heart Names Strong Force Felt Bits My Own Middle Color Skins Chests Adrenaline Favorite Color

Author:Vicki Pettersson

“I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world”

Knows World Art Girl Class Know How Like Me Working Class Art World

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.”

Knows Children Made Funny Sex Know How Baby Witty Pregnancy Fourth Pregnant My Baby Baby Boy New Baby Were Pregnant My Baby Boy Cute Baby Boy Cute Baby

Author:Loretta Lynn

“I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.”

Knows Different Care Desire Sports Effort Know How Exposed Dedicated Olympics Best Effort Olympian

Author:Gretchen Bleiler

“I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.”

Knows Know How Serious Female Lifts

Author:Bill Cosby

“I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story”

People Knows Writing Helping Stories Use Courses Term Careers Novel Know How Information Grateful Meaningful Help Me Screenplays Writing Stories

Author:Donald Miller

“I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.”

Knows Way Felt Know How Kings Conquer Boxing Empires Barbarians Roman Empire

Author:Mike Tyson

“I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.”

Knows Two Sides Know How Streets Picks Boxes Fighter Auditions Two Days Street Fighter

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I didn't know how to check other people's feeds. When I started Instagram, it was just me posting! But then at some point, like eight months ago, I realized I could see what other people were sharing. It was so exciting and so fun, but it was like I'd already gotten into the rhythm of sharing and not worrying about what it was like compared to other accounts. I think that was kind of protective, in a way.”

People Thinking Knows Way Kind Fun Worry Know How Months Accounts Exciting Eight I Realized Checks Rhythm Protective Instagram Not Worrying

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.”

Ifs Knows Might Stars Deals Know How Rocks Rock Star

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.”

Knows Character Hands Felt Know How Tvs Loud Just Being Deaf Mute

Author:Dan Wells

Source: I Am Not A Serial Killer

“I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state”

Knows States Remember Know How Written Incredibles Frustration Passive Preparing Angle

Author:Tom Berenger

“I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.”

Knows Together Know How Comedy Subjects Materials

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.”

Knows Running Know How Worst Terrible

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”

Knows Littles Said Fall Know How Stupid Holes Goodbye Climbs They Said Saying Goodbye

Author:Ann Rinaldi

Source: A Stitch in Time

“I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.”

Knows Men Know How Findings Compare Lacking Exhausted Hardy Loving Him

Author:Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel

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