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“I didn't really have anyone in particular who inspired me or that I found fascinating as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I began to find people - and they were all historic figures - that I began to relate to and find some inspiration in.”

People Inspiration Kids Found Figures Particular Twenties Inspired Relate Fascinating Historic

Author:Chelsea Manning

“I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.”

Years School Six High School Classic Six Year Olds School Experience

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.”

Imagination Heard Amount Dad My Dad Details Hearing Arrangements Recollection Instrumentation

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.”

Knows Way Kind Young Realizing Instruments Musical Circles Young Women This Society Harps Parlor

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I didn't really know about Marilyn Manson - it's not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would curl up and listen to!”

Knows Curls Manson

Author:Twiggy

“I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.”

Knows Kind Children Ideas Term Creative Style Huge No Idea Ballet Icons Jackie Hepburn Audrey Style Icons Onassis

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.”

Knows Way Mother Culture Father Community One Thing Series Glue Mother And Father

Author:Yasmin Paige

“I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.”

Knows Wanted Fall Actors College Fall Back

Author:Rory Cochrane

“I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but the few times we did spend together, you know, were times I'll always remember. You know, he was a really sweet guy, and a really genuine soul, you know, and an incredibly talented artist.”

Knows Wells Soul Together Remember Artist Guy Sweet Genuine Remember You Remembers You Time Together Really Sweet Sweet Guy

Author:Jerry Cantrell

“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.”

Knows Writing Children Real Wanted School Film Growing Up Teacher Growing Wonderful Magic Drama Theater Scripts Experts Magician Wonderful Friends Houdini

Author:Kristen Connolly

“I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.”

Knows Waiting Fronts Police Green

Author:John Lennon

“I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.”

Knows Years Wanted Mom Directors My Mom Remembered Los Angeles Auditions Casting Casting Directors

Author:Scott Speedman

“I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.”

Knows Inspirational Wanted

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

Source: The Woman I Wanted to Be

“I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.”

Knows Writing Two Song Writing Songs

Author:Neil Young

“I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.”

Knows Firsts America Sex My Own First Time San Francisco

Author:Elton John

“I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.”

Knows Firsts Rooms Criminals Detention

Author:Jeff Kinney

“I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be an extra on the movie [Two Evil Eyes], and he saw me sitting out waiting to meet the casting director, and he pulled my mother and I into a separate conference room.”

Knows Two Eye Mother Evil Waiting Rooms Saws Directors Sitting Extras Casting Conferences Two Evils Casting Directors Evil Eye

Author:Julie Benz

“I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.”

Knows Reason Facts Wanted College

Author:Avey Tare

“I didn't really know X-Men at all before I started. So I'd heard of this comic but I didn't know it was as beloved or as iconic as I have now found out, but I just know fans are going to flip out at this.”

Knows Men Found Heard Fans Comic Beloved Flip Iconic X Men

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.”

Play College Guitar

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.”

Courses Wonderful College Boring Stuck Dull Oxford Time Of My Life Wonderful Times

Author:Mick Jagger

“I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.”

Corny

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I didn't really like doing commercials.”

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.”

Like You Angel Dust Behave

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.”

Pay Jazz Unhappy Genre

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.”

Wanted Fun Acting Modeling

Author:Leighton Meester

“I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.”

World Way Said Sometimes Kids Used Mother Party Wander My Way My Birthday Birthday Party

Author:Kim Basinger

“I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.”

Littles Sound Voice Land Havens Likes Los Angeles Accents Sydney

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.”

Author:Steve Buscemi

“I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.”

I Can Effects Fronts Taste Glasses Drank Booze

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.”

School Rocks Moved Rock N Roll Bugs Getting High Zeppelins

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.”

Play Kids Dresses Shirts Jeans T Shirt

Author:Ellen Page

“I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.”

People Giving Realizing Neighborhood

Author:Ice T

“I didn't really say everything I said.”

Said Funny Baseball Yankees New York Yankees Isms Famous Baseball Great Baseball Deja Vu Yankees Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.”

Ifs New York Movement Listening Originals British Punk

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.”

People Should Looks Plenty Look At Me

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: the bell jar

“I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.”

Wells Play Home Motivational Wanted Games Attention Basketball

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.”

Author:Alan Moore

“I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.”

Trying Book Lost Busy Employee Publishing Mcdonalds Lost Time Publishing Books

Author:Jerry Stahl

“I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.”

Writing Song San Francisco Writing Music

Author:Jello Biafra

“I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of those people who didn't go to church, but when I got in trouble I kinda pleaded with God - whoever that was.”

People Thinking Church Trouble

Author:Bill Maher

“I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.”

Thinking School Artist Too Much Becoming High School Math I Realized Artistic

Author:Phil Foglio

“I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.”

Thinking Song Sound Studios

Author:Aurora Aksnes

“I didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer in college, but I thought I could be a better musician. I loved the process of writing music and lyrics more than I loved the process of sitting at my computer and writing. Because of that, I thought I would be a better musician than a writer.”

Thinking Writing College Computer Musician

Author:Leah Siegel

“I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.”

Thinking Term

Author:Abdellatif Kechiche

“I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.”

Thinking Muse

Author:Jane Birkin

“I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.”

Thinking Term

Author:Judy Greer

“I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.”

Thinking Believe Enough Would Be Strong Easy Chance Gone Materials Incredibles Albums Strong Enough Clockwork

Author:George Michael

“I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.”

People Art Hard Seeing Fashion Paris Working It

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!”

Black Grew Grew Up Racism Like Me All Black

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

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