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“So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.”

Lasts Steps Becoming Priests Delighted Ordination Deacons

Author:Thomas Keneally

“So I wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother. I was afraid of being the steadfast, stationary anchor who provides a jumping-off place for another young adventurer whose travels I might envy and whose future is still unmoored and unmapped.”

Children Mother Adventure Parenting Parenthood Afraid

Author:Lionel Shriver

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.”

Regret Death Of A Loved One

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

Source: Caro Michele

“So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.”

Lying

Author:John Green

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does she think that this is what life means? She goes to work in the dark and comes home when it’s dark. Does she know what the world looks like when the sun is shining?”

Life Energy Work Sun Meaning Of Life Consumed

Author:Jinat Rehana Begum

Source: First Fires

“So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.”

Ifs Trying Lasts Night Wonder Laughing Doctors Work Out Comedian Last Night Panthers Pink Panther

Author:Dave Matthews

“So I waver between doing the smart thing and the dumb thing. The problem is that it feels like there's a dangerous grey area between those two choices. Part of me desperately wants to see where this goes and how long I can slide under the radar. The other part of me knows this will just epically blow up in my face.”

Love Guilt Decisions

Author:K. Ryan

“So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”

Littles Made Enough Sound Pieces Cutting Middle Raised Guitar Rounds Boxes Screens Holes Bridges Tunes Wire Cigar

Author:Lightnin' Hopkins

“So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.”

Actors Radio Auditions Sydney

Author:Rod Taylor

“So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.”

Doctors Arthritis

Author:Daniel Johns

“So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility.”

Rain Soil Happiness Quotes Tranquility Heart Quotes Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Childhood Memory Smell Of Rain

Author:Avijeet Das

“So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said 'I want to buy an ice-cream'. He said Hundreds & thousands?' I said 'We'll start with one.' He said 'Knickerbocker glory?' I said 'I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.'”

Want Said Humor Funny Certain Amount Glory Locals Ice Shops Cream Ice Cream Trousers

Author:Tim Vine

“So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".”

Want Said Humor Funny Locals Complaints Lumps Onions Supermarkets Vinegar

Author:Tim Vine

Source: The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition

“So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.”

Design Products Enjoyed Engineering Product Design

Author:Debi Thomas

“So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.””

Ifs Want Said Home Care Wanted Father Sound Laughing Wonderful Mom Don't Care My Mom Actresses Quitting I Don't Care Fascinating Elephants Make You Happy Trainers

Author:Gena Rowlands

“So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.”

Years Said Book Law Found Prayer Fronts Judging Standing Guilty Pockets Medal Standing There St Jude

Author:Aaron Neville

“So I went in this cheap-looking restaurant and had doughnuts and coffee. Only, I didn't eat the doughnuts. I couldn't swallow them too well. The thing is, if you get very depressed about something, it's hard as hell to swallow.”

Depression Coffee Something Swallowing Restaurant Doughnuts

Author:J.D. Salinger

“So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."”

Want Said Humor Care Funny Guy Stars Don't Care I Don't Care Shops Pet Vines Aquariums Goldfish

Author:Tim Vine

“So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine...like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish...”

Wine Corfu

Author:Gerald Durrell

Source: My Family and Other Animals

“So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.”

Mind Done Problem Government Clear Needed Clear Minds

Author:Vince Cable

“So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.”

Country Jazz Clubs

Author:Cy Coleman

“So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.”

Spiritual Process My Own Teaching Rama Spiritual Teaching

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.”

Hard Bigs Water Player Albums Again And Again Curves Cotton Muddy Learning Curve Harmonicas

Author:Sonny Terry

“So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.”

Ideas Stories Artist Found Literature Phones Magazines Interviews Copies Editors Articles Yearbook

Author:Neil Gaiman

“So I went through the whole list except the names beginning with H, and when I had finished I found that twenty-six boys out of the forty-six in my class had died for das 1000-jährige Reich.”

School Death Loss Childhood Germany Nazi Childhood Trauma

Author:Fred Uhlman

Source: Reunion

“So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.”

Self Humor Funny Self Esteem Normal Negative Clubs Esteem Timely Hovering

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."”

Men Said Humor Funny Watches He Man Shops Vines Analogue

Author:Tim Vine

“So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.”

Thinking Way Trying Made Social Fashion Conscious Photograph Chicago Social Service

Author:Gordon Parks

“So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education”

School Religious Forget Mecca Religious Education

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!”

Giving Government Opportunity Week Give Me Safety Campaigns Shooting

Author:David Prowse

“So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.”

Left Needed My Family Obvious Miami

Author:Ruben Blades

“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”

“So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".”

Said Humor Eye Funny Red Rose Chinese Restaurants Ducks Diamond Sparkle Waiter Red Rose

Author:Tommy Cooper

“So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.”

Red Chinese Restaurants Ducks Red Lips

Author:Tim Vine

“So I went to the Doctor's yesterday. He said, "What appears to be the problem?" I said, "I keep having this dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away." He said, "How can I help?" I said: "Break my arms."”

Said Helping Problem Dream Humor Funny Beautiful Night Girl Break Arms Doctors Yesterday Pushing Rushing Beautiful Girl

Author:Tommy Cooper

“So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention”

Needs Causes Waiting Hurt Attention Mountain

Author:Nicki Minaj

“So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.”

I Can Christian Rocks Rock And Roll Banner

Author:Cliff Richard

“So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body” is our breath, because breath is the only thing that all human bodies experience and as such, it is something we all must share, not just with each other, but, in one way or another, with all living things on earth. To this day, I still can’t think of a better way of truly breaking us free from the visual rut that the canon of Western art has left us languishing in, than the breath of an Indigenous Australian woman.”

Art The Body Western Art

Author:Hannah Gadsby

Source: Ten Steps to Nanette

“So I wish you first a Sense of theatre; only Those who love illusion And know it will go far: Otherwise we spend our Lives in a confusion Of what we say and do with Who we really are.”

Life Illusion Theatre Confusion Birthday Auden Who Are We W H Auden

Author:W.H. Auden

“So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.”

Film Moving Proud Performances Oscars

Author:Kate Winslet

“So I won't. I won't think of it, and I'll make procrastination my new national pastime.”

Procrastination Stubbornness Pastime Procrastinate

Author:Kendra Blake

“So I won't tell her. Then when this is over, I'll cry my broken heart out into a case of beer and I'll make sure that one day I record that song. The one I said I reminded me of her. But that's not entirely true because I wrote it for her. I'll record it and one day when she's done college or even ten years from now, she'll hear it on the radio. Maybe then she'll think of me and what we were for awhile.”

Heartbreak First Love Bittersweet

Author:L.H. Blake

Source: A Song of Sin and Salvation

“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.”

Life Dream Black Sun Mass Hospitals

Author:Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.”

People Reason Enough Found Lucky Fortunate

Author:Peter Dinklage

“So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.”

Ifs Should Wonder Limits

Author:Kathy Griffin

“So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.”

Humans Hard Character Sides Hard Work Plot Neglect

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full”

Feels Trying School Crazy Eating High School Lunch Salad Crackers Cucumbers

Author:Nicole Polizzi

“So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break”

Ifs Heart Choices Decision Break Mines Low Self Esteem

Author:Billy Joel

“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”

People Way Giving Kind God Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Understanding Habit All Kinds Generosity

Author:Susan Sarandon

“So I would invent her thoughts, plumb them for a subtext that was historically true in essence, but not strictly factual in order to relate her history to contemporary issues about freedom responsibility, and woman's "place." The heroine would represent the unapologetic acceptance of shame and terror; assume the consequences of choosing infanticide; claim her own freedom. The terrain, slavery, was formidable and pathless.”

Freedom Feminism Creation Slavery Contemporary

Author:Toni Morrison

Source: Beloved

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