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“I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life.”

Moments Sleep Rooms Special Cups Captains Lifting Liverpool Best Moments

Author:Steven Gerrard

“I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.”

Long Shapes Long Time Smoke Genes

Author:Donald O'Connor

“I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Needs Giving Stills Two Play Guy Three Minutes Needed Pure Basketball Spots Shooting Addresses Shooter

Author:Joe Dumars

“I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.”

Years Sound Tests Screens Bob Dylan Flu

Author:Toby Jones

“I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected to go to study at the Houston Ballet Academy. I knew I had to study hard in every aspect, in both language and dance, which I did. I put my whole heart and soul into each minute of my day while in America and what an experience those six weeks gave me.”

Heart Soul Hard Whole America Speak Language Study Week Minutes Students Lucky Six Aspect Ballet Academy Heart And Soul Selected Houston Single Word

Author:Li Cunxin

“I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.”

Speak Speak English Pittsburgh

Author:Mario Lemieux

“I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.”

People Knows Security Glad National Security

Author:Paul Begala

“I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.”

Years Whole Cities Careers Special Seven Odd Attachment Best Year Special To Me

Author:Paul Coffey

“I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.”

Daughter Hats My Daughter Weed Buckets

Author:Schoolboy Q

“I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.”

Enough Would Be America Numbers Mistake Touring

Author:Kim Wilde

“I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.”

Parent Growing Up Growing

Author:Michael Reagan

“I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.”

Said Used Horse Dear Used To Be Steak

Author:W. C. Fields

“I didn't start a war. Nobody died.”

War Died

Author:Boris Becker

“I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And they both in the same year offered me parts on their programs which was unbelievably lucky and fortuitous.”

Years Acting Lucky Program Gary Fortuitous

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child”

Children Two Cooking Thirty Julia

Author:Kathleen Flinn

Source: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

“I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.”

Mother Grieving

Author:Peaches Geldof

“I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.”

Years Running Jogging Changing My Life

Author:Anthony Edwards

“I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.”

Deals Issues Alcohol Driving Drunk Drunk Driving

Author:Candy Lightner

“I didn't start making music in order to be famous.”

Order

Author:Mark Ronson

“I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.”

People Thinking Care Responsibility

Author:Ice T

“I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.”

Want Energy Enjoy Loss Lows Weight Tired Weight Loss

Author:Niecy Nash

“I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.”

Thinking Jobs Film Lovers Filmmaker Film Set

Author:Ava DuVernay

“I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.”

Done Sky Flight Aviation

Author:Elrey Borge Jeppesen

“I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.”

Giving Writing Children Found Glad

Author:Beverly Cleary

“I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.”

Play School New Things Playing Music Music In Schools

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.”

Piano Playing Piano

Author:George Winston

“I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!”

Eye Singing Shy

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.”

Wife Taught Conservative My Wife Skis Skiing

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I didn't start smoking weed till my junior year. I had a boyfriend who smoked a lot, and I was like, "Oh, I guess I'm moving on to this phase of life." I didn't fight it at all.”

Years Moving Fighting Smoking Weed Phases Juniors Smoking Weed Junior Year Phases Of Life

Author:Ilana Glazer

“I didn't start talk radio until '95 in L.A. The show was very successful, and they actually tried to syndicate it nationally, but I couldn't get stations. It was like, "We don't care that she's funny and she's got great ratings. She's liberal!"”

Shows Care Successful Radio Don't Care Stations Rating Talk Radio Syndicate

Author:Stephanie Miller

“I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.”

Age Old Age Flight Preserves Aviation

Author:Elrey Borge Jeppesen

“I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.”

Artist

Author:Kiki Smith

“I didn't start with a lot. I have friends who started with a lot who have now built on top of it, and I'm impressed because I used to think that was a disadvantage. I think there are a million ways to do it.”

Thinking

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.”

Children Book Jobs Reading Reading Books Impressed Children's Books Warehouse

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.”

Ifs Writing Order Ego Opposites

Author:Rob Chapman

“I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.”

Knows Way Writing Childhood Bored Get Away Hometown

Author:Julianna Baggott

“I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.”

Writing School Late High School

Author:Junot Diaz

“I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value.”

Mind Values Hate Failing Changed Strive I Realized Stop Hating

Author:Lindy West

“I didn't struggle to find my style - I prefer to call it "voice," because I think the word is more suggestive of complexity, implying quality of form and content. I do, however, struggle with making my work "work," and there's no predicting whether this can be achieved calmly or with a ferocious evisceration of the psyche.”

Thinking Quality Struggle Style Complexity

Author:Phoebe Gloeckner

“I didn't study acting.”

Acting Study

Author:Ray Walston

“I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.”

People Wells Book Wanted Asks Stuff Teach Study Coffee Shops Sneak Coffee Shop

Author:Joan Baez

“I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.”

School Wish Study Mythology Greek Greek Mythology

Author:Eric Bana

“I didn't study music. I literally lived it.”

Study

Author:Paco de Lucia

“I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.”

Study Piano

Author:Carl Andre

“I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.”

Thinking World Way Feels Writing Real Character School Fiction Study Creation Students Invention Biology Real World Graduates Rooted Graduate Students Undergraduate

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I didn't study; I live.”

Study

Author:Eric Cantona

“I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's not those in prison for the sake of the gospel who suffer. The person who suffers is he who never experiences God's intimate presence.”

Persons Real Joy Suffering Jesus Prison Sake Intimate

Author:Brother Yun

Source: The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

“I didn't take a break from making music, but I took some time away from the "need to sell it" thing, and moved to my hometown, Umeå. I took my time there, exploring music on my own, on a very personal level.”

Needs My Own Levels Break Sells Moved My Time Exploring Hometown Time Away

Author:Tove Styrke

“I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!”

Jobs Progress News Foxes Pointing Shouting Fox News

Author:Russell Brand

“I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job.”

Author:Julie Smolyansky

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