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“I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.”

Way Trying Cry Intention My Way Orlando

Author:Dwight Howard

“I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.”

Might Turns Situation Enemy Aviation Combat Pilots

Author:John C. Meyer

“I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.”

I Can Bigs Deals Big Deal

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.”

Fashion Moved Magazines Canada Exposed Fashion Magazines

Author:Jason Wu

“I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown.' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal.'”

Art Said Goal Fields One Day Museums Toms Brady Touchdowns Vermeer

Author:Rob Gronkowski

“I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.”

People Thinking Way Trying Littles Done Jobs Bits Process Teach Saws Trouble Teaching Lessons Little Bit Video Like Me Rebel Life Lesson Wwe Wrong Way Stubbornness Get The Job Done

Author:Chris Jericho

“I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.”

Play Teach Teacher Dialogue English Teacher

Author:Dan Brown

“I didn't understand how much senators and members of the House are not able to represent the people because they're too busy fundraising to maintain their seat in office. I hope we as a country start looking at how we can change that.”

People Country Able House Members Office Busy Seats Senators Too Busy Fundraising

Author:Jessica Chastain

“I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.”

People Play Song Space Practice Fronts Gears

Author:Kevin Morby

“I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.”

Ifs Life Philosophy Political Actors Study Astronomy Live Life Political Science

Author:Brit Marling

“I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.”

Toilets Plumbing

Author:Rick Riordan

Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“I didn't understand myself well enough be an ambassador to my world, to inspire people to want to cook, to inspire young people to want to come into my industry.”

People World Want Wells Enough Young Inspire Industry Cooks Ambassadors

Author:Marco Pierre White

“I didn't understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you'll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right.”

Ifs I Can Turns Fun Fans Car Couple Mets Driving Circles Nascar Car Driving

Author:Alonzo Bodden

“I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something?”

Mean Hours Cutting Crazy Communism Pornography Single Word

Author:Beth Grant

“I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.”

Said School Girl House Heard Mom Singing My Mom Doing You

Author:Chris Brown

“I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.”

Roles One Thing Collapse Playing Roles

Author:Portia de Rossi

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.”

Love You Breaths Breathe Making Love

Author:Jenny Downham

“I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.”

Knows Sentences Selling Jail Murderer Rest Of Your Life Cocaine Thoughts On Life

Author:Rick Ross

“I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.”

Advantage Active Staying

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.”

Thinking I Can Fascination

Author:Chiaki Kuriyama

“I didn't understand the concept that there's a state that won't allow its people to leave or come back whenever they want to, by saying, "It's because we love you." And I never get that - I still don't get that concept. I thought, that's very threatening, and I don't get why you would want to make this experiment with Germany separation.”

People Love You Separation Threatening

Author:Nina Hoss

“I didn't understand the reasons why I was there in the Lost episode - the mysteries of the island. I just instead made my own little reality, made it as simple as possible. I figured I was a crazy woman, just a little screw loose. I don't know how I got on that island. No one could tell me how I got there either, so I just assumed I got there on a shipwreck, and I went a little nutty.”

Reason Reality Simple Mystery Crazy Shipwreck

Author:Allison Janney

“I didn't understand this idea of a God who says, "You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I'm the best, and then I'll give you eternal happiness. If you won't, then you don't get it!" It seemed to be about ego. I can't see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.”

Ifs Giving Made I Can Ideas Ego Eternal Acknowledge Eternal Happiness

Author:Brad Pitt

“I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.”

Sometimes Pondering

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I didn't use a phone until I was 14.”

Use Phones

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.”

People Stories Use Seems Used Situation Week Structure Notes Desperate Pencils Fists Bothered Pads

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.”

Thinking Use

Author:Christina Ricci

“I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.”

Knows World Want Children Long Enough Care School Used Enjoy Long Time Asking Hunger Sat Lunch Enjoy Life Used To Care

Author:George McGovern

“I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.”

Used Watches Spots

Author:Bill Gates

“I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.”

Humans Body Human Beings Views Technology Broken Inadequate

Author:Hugh Herr

“I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.”

Knows World Art Made Whole Home Decision Growing Up Growing Internet Whole World Gallery Art Galleries

Author:Kesh

“I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.”

Felt Duty Volunteer

Author:Ramsey Clark

“I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.”

Said Guy President Office Vote President Bush

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.”

Doe Jobs President Vote Good Job

Author:John Wayne

“I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.”

People Helping One Day Wake Up Guilt Focused Innocence

Author:Ezra Edelman

“I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.”

Knows Sides One Day Economics Wake Up Make Sense Supply Side Economics

Author:David Brock

“I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.”

Mean Lost Morning Forever Havens Wake Up Replacements

Author:Paul Westerberg

“I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.”

Ifs Walks Boys Tree Wind Needed Branches Tree Branches

Author:Deb Caletti

“I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.”

Feels Littles Different School Bits Subjects College Little Bit Ignorant Idiot Classroom Uneducated Soaking Different Subjects

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.”

Men World Want Wanted Struggle Standing Window Function Actresses Goodbye Hello

Author:Sergio Leone

“I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.”

Want Circumstances Divorce

Author:Sarah Ferguson

“I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.”

Want Spiritual Masters Directors Pages Yellow Guru Incarnation Chakra Kung Fu Archery Masts

Author:Daniel Quinn

“I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.”

Ifs Want Degrees Ill Radio Dummy Announcers

Author:J. D. Salinger

Source: franny and zooey

“I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.”

Knows Want Real Wanted School Guy Causes Black White Magic Middle Let Me South Shirts Ties Nuts Pants This Guy Creeps Umbrella Middle Of The Road White Shirts Black Tie

Author:Patti Smith

“I didn't want anyone getting close to me. I pushed people away. Built a wall around my heart to keep them out. I let one person take down the bricks, and I suppose it was a good idea, but, sometimes, he hurts me too. And it hurts so much worse then any other hurt I've felt because he is one of the very few that matter anymore.”

People Want Heart Persons Ideas Sometimes Matter Felt Hurt Wall My Heart Built Upset Good Ideas It Hurts Bricks Hurt Me Hurt So Much He Hurt Me

Author:Jacqueline Kelly

“I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size 4. I wanted it to be like the world. I think that we got there, and that was really special. I wanted texture and grit to everything. And then, you have an actress like Sarah Gadon, where you could rub dirt on her face and she'd look like she stepped off of a Vogue cover, and that's fine.”

Thinking World Want Looks Wanted Faces Special Fine Size Actresses Dirt Texture Grit Vogue

Author:Bridget Carpenter

“I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.”

Want Beautiful

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?”

Want Complicated Gray Disguise Want Him Heathcliff Linton

Author:Margaret Atwood

Source: Lady Oracle

“I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. - Kate”

Want Enough Moments Wanted Pain Remember Strong Memories Sweet Kate Good Memories

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.”

People Thinking Way Want Littles Said Care Grows Growing Up Crazy Normal Excuse Take Care Normal Life Excuse Me Want To Be With Someone

Author:Candace Bushnell

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