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“One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.”

Inspirational Years Reason Forty Forty Years Old

Author:Ellen Gilchrist

Source: The Writing Life

“One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra.”

World Reason Home Running Past Winning Walks Numbers Appreciate Bills Series Pops Hitting Worn Uniforms Pirate Home Run Dave World Series Cobras Worn It

Author:Andrew McCutchen

“One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.”

Reason Can Do Acting Depends Band Starting Productions You Can Do It Success And Failure Theatrical Directing Movies

Author:Neil Strauss

Source: The Game

“One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.”

Men World Firsts Believe Heart Reason Lasts I Believe Born Music Jazz I Believe In Rhythm Oneness Composer Heartbeat Pianist

Author:Dave Brubeck

“One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.”

Way Believe Has Beens States Reason Government America Spiritual Asks I Believe United United States Doors Policy Demand Pressure Strikes Terrorist Significant United States Of America

Author:James Inhofe

“One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.”

Reason Social Skills Workers Social Worker

Author:Margaret Beckett

“One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!”

Want Different Reason Language Views Saws Century Students Color 21st Century Presenting Different Languages Berkeley Different Colors Different Views

Author:June Jordan

“One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck but in Spain they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Reason Wish Cities Luck Clubs Surround Mentality Spain Recognise Liverpool

Author:Fernando Torres

“One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.”

Reason Shows Approach Athlete Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.”

States Reason Problem Speak Community Security Elements Solutions Defense Department Staff National Security Fbi Homeland Speaks Out Homeland Security Counter Terrorism Department Of Homeland Security

Author:John Poindexter

“One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.”

“One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.”

Reason Age Film Mother Fiction Daughter Science Fiction My Daughter Good Films

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.”

Reason Feelings Social Media Ask Me

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.”

People Thinking Has Beens Stills Reason Kids Asking Unfair Exorcist

Author:Linda Blair

“One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.”

Thinking Real Reason Situation Journey Hopefully Theatrical Fooled Pretentious

Author:Ricky Jay

“One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.”

Ifs Reason Eye Women Plates

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?'... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.”

Ifs Knows Reason Fighting Lines Fronts Mirrors Clubs Mma About Yourself

Author:Jon Fitch

“One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.”

Reason Feelings Wanted Fighting Games Lost Situation Boys Knowing Trouble Danger Grew Comfortable Grew Up Tough Areas Uncomfortable Not Knowing Dublin Uncomfortable Situations

Author:Conor McGregor

“One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.”

I Can Reason Body Can Do Shapes Suits

Author:Bill Nighy

“One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.”

Writing Different Reason Lines Company Length Vocabulary

Author:Martha Ronk

“One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level; some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.”

People Mean Reason Whole Levels Support Source Selling Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.”

Thinking Reason Can Do Type Amount Critical Hanging Out Broads Immense Astonishing Critical Thinking Scholarly Conceptualization

Author:Lucy Corin

“One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within it are free-floating, but we put them in a certain order to get them to have meaning for us. If we left them alone, they'd be like water, like the ocean. It would be just this vast field of free-floating matter or signs, so in this way, I think language and water have much in common. It's only us bringing grammar and syntax and diction and the human need for meaning that orders language, hierarchizes it.”

Thinking Mean Reason Language Water Common Ocean Semiotics

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.”

World Different Reason Opportunity Share Exciting

Author:Brie Larson

“One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead... I don't make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp, but give me a dead child, any day, over a child sobbing his heart out while you make him tell you what the bad man did next. Dead victims don't show up outside HQ to beg for answers, you never have to nudge them into reliving every hideous moment, and you never have to worry, and you never have to worry about what it'll do to their lives if you fuck up. They stay put in the morgue, light-years beyond anything I can do right or wrong, and leave me free to focus on the people who sent them there.”

Murder Morgue

Author:Tana French

Source: Broken Harbour

“One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.”

“One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.”

World Want Reason Kingdoms Abundance Online

Author:Stephen Fry

“One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.”

Doe I Can Real Reason Film Mediums Fake Back And Forth Literal Coliseum

Author:Julie Taymor

“One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.”

Art Different Reason Kids Levels Folks Bricks Relatable Different Levels Legos

Author:Nathan Sawaya

“One of the reasons I love working in voiceover (and audiobooks) so much is that I'm an old soul, and every time I go up to the microphone, I feel like I'm doing a classic radio play or something. I really like that.”

Recording Audiobooks Voiceover Audible Jason Frazier

Author:Jason Frazier

“One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.”

Reason Play Position Cancer Quarterback

Author:Len Dawson

“One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Reason Helping Film Actors Audience Toms

Author:Sam Mendes

“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.”

World Reason Wanted Actors Deals Stage Painting Goes On Musician Performances Bigger Moved Productions Around The World

Author:Jared Leto

“One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.”

Reason Class Artwork Thesis

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.”

Thinking Reason Fun Lows Budgets Filmmaking

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There's not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time.”

People Trying Reason Shows Problem Certain Energy Enjoy Forget Laughing Stage Drinking Addiction Beer Smoking Relax Good Times Having A Good Time Good Energy Have A Laugh

Author:Hank Williams III

“One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.”

Reason Kids Acting Beats Karate

Author:Justin Hires

“One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.”

Reason My Own Sells Tired Labels Print Dropping Dropping Things

Author:John Zorn

“One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.”

Feels Stills Hard Reason Would Be Fun Shame

Author:Bill Maher

“One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!”

Thinking Reason Policy Barack Flood Syria Refugee

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.”

Thinking Stills Reason Stories Running Dark Shadow Dependent

Author:David Selby

“One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.”

People Thinking Reason Able Pay Technology Progress Creating Deeper Debt Holes Nervous Digging New Technology

Author:Peter Thiel

“One of the reasons I think that Donald Trump has been a popular figure, he's very available to the media. But he also has a reputation for and has a history of attacking people when he thinks they're not sufficiently deferential to him. I think that's clear.”

People Thinking Has Beens Reason Clear Media Figures Trump Available Reputation Attacking

Author:Michel Martin

“One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.”

“One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house had passed, saying what you're doing is unacceptable to Congress, that shot across the bow might have straightened him up.”

Reason House Resolution

Author:John Dean

“One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.”

People Reason Speak Brain Uncomfortable

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.”

Stills Reason Wanted Together Felt Inspire Collections Target Chic

Author:Phillip Lim

“One of the reasons I wanted to come back is I got sick of seeing really ugly pictures of myself in the tabloids. I got to the point where I'd look in the mirror and say: "Where'd she go? Because she's still in there." I knew she was still in there (she laughs) and it didn't take much to get her out.”

Looks Stills Reason Wanted Laughing Seeing Sick Mirrors Ugly Tabloids Pictures Of Myself

Author:Linda Evangelista

“One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.”

Country Reason Shows Wanted Studios Hardest Hardest Thing Nashville

Author:Callie Khouri

“One of the reasons I wanted to start a company is because I wanted an environment that I wanted to work in. I wanted people to be able to have a life - for it to be OK to leave for a lacrosse game or a doctor's appointment. So I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things.”

People Thinking Men Important Different Reason Environment Men And Women

Author:Tory Burch

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