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“When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.”

Ideas Needed Manage Vague Chords Vague Ideas

Author:Joe Strummer

“When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.”

Looks Film Father Felt Bits Boys Break Son Weight Caught Interviews Amazed Stand By Me

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.”

People Used Song Break Happened Singers Call Me Hardship Favourite Favourite Songs Favourite Singer

Author:Sonu Nigam

“When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.”

Mean Persons Doe States Representatives Verses

Author:Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.”

Ifs Ability Quality Honest Integrity Focused Who I Am Compromise Realms Territory Popularity Chasing Stay Focused Unfamiliar Stranded Unfamiliar Territory Chasing Money

Author:Oleta Adams

“When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can kind of live in the same moment, holding hands together. How life can go from the ridiculous to the sublime to the tragic all in one breath.”

Kind Moments Together Tragedy Crisis Ridiculous Tragic Sublime Holding Hands

Author:Peter Vack

“When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!”

“When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.”

Steps Rings

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?”

Knows Feels Looks Character Effort Steps Judging Conscious Shoes Core

Author:Abbie Cornish

“When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.”

World Want Moments Winning Steps Fans Battle Boxes Disappear Noise That Moment Cheer Pitcher Softball Inspirational Softball

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.”

Hard Night Steps Morning Kitchen Eggs Nuts Lambs Burgers Scrambled Eggs Pine Nuts

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“When I step into the light My arms are open wide When I step into the light My eyes searching wildly”

Light Eye Steps Arms Wide

Author:Dave Matthews

“When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.”

Reading Steps Library Literacy Libraries And Librarians Libraries Books And Reading Libraries And Reading School Library

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.”

Thinking Inspirational Games Winning Steps Basketball Court Basketball Court

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.”

Knows Steps Fields

Author:Ray Lewis

“When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.”

Knows Steps Fields

Author:Terrell Owens

“When I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.”

Knows Steps

Author:Marcelo Garcia

“When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.”

“When I step onto the court, I'm ready to play. If you're going up against me, you'd better be ready. If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you.”

Ifs Play Steps Ready Court

Author:Michael Jordan

“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.”

People Way Want Love Feels Persons Self Feelings Age Steps Courage Risk Stage Honest Fronts Promise Offers Discovery Brave Self Discovery Being Honest Intimate Spite True Feelings

Author:Michael Jackson

“When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.”

Giving Feelings Form Energy White Imagine Tree Closest Definite Giving Back Closest Friends Wavelength

Author:Anne LaBastille

“When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were like, "You should never leave a gallery if you didn't have somewhere else to go," but I wasn't trying to disrespect the gallerists in that way.”

People Ifs Way Should Trying Like You Phases Somewhere Else Gallery Disrespect

Author:Kalup Linzy

“When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.”

Writing Kind Hard Hard Work Manuals Manual Work

Author:Sean O'Casey

Source: Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey

“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows, I felt a sense of importance. It gratified me to be in a place devoted to books and quiet; I was filled with a sense of hope. Reading to me was fundamental, as fundamental as food. And nothing could be more satisfying than reading a good book while eating a good meal of mi soup, french fries, and a thin cut of steak. I plowed through books as fast as possible in order to read them again.”

Reading Childhood Books Eating Libraries

Author:Bich Minh Nguyen

Source: Stealing Buddha's Dinner

“When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.”

People World Way Kind Certain Poor Saws This World Legacy Indifference Bias Poor People Plight Unfairness Provoked Insensitivity Unreliability Racial Bias

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“When I stepped onto the bridge over the Iowa River and stood looking out across the water, I knew I was home. I was wrong about that, as it turns out. And I know now that my certainty was based on a series of troubling misconceptions, but it would be years before I would lose the comfort that certainty gave me.”

Home

Author:Eula Biss

Source: Notes from No Man's Land

“When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.”

Made Problem Film Girl Community Dark Space Enemy Periods Sacred Bad Girl Sacred Space

Author:Courtney Love

“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”

Mind Two Home Actors House Darkness Movie Two Things Sunlight Outsiders Newman Things On My Mind Socs

Author:S. E. Hinton

“When I stepped outside, Vikram blinked a couple of times. “You are surprisingly lovely.” “You are unsurprisingly insulting.”

Vikram Gauri

Author:Roshani Chokshi

Source: A Crown of Wishes

“When I stepped up to the podium and looked out before the audience of L.A. critics, my first remarks to the room were: "Gee, thanks, now I finally know what Kevin Thomas looks like.”

Film Cinema Tarantino

Author:Quentin Tarantino

Source: Cinema Speculation

“When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.”

People Stills Scene Eating Window Seats Sunday Afternoon Hobbies Broadway Manhattan Starbucks Sunday Afternoons

Author:Susan Orlean

“When i stood on that little hill and saw the village of everleaf, I realized - beauty lives in the small things.”

Kindness Quote Quote Of The Day Quotes About Life Gentleness Middle Grade True Love Quotes Kindness Quotesss Eliineverleafvillage

Author:Ilya Papoudin

Source: Eli In Everleaf Village

“When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.”

Motivation Games Sports Attitude Honestly Softball Stood Up

Author:Manny Mota

“When I stop asking questions, something's wrong.”

Asking Asking Questions

Author:Rene Marie

“When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.”

Thinking Wish Distance

Author:Tablo

“When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.”

Worry Becoming

Author:Stephen Dunn

“When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.”

Fall Good Things Mma Things In Life Chasing Lap Wrong Things

Author:Danny Castillo

“When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being. See, I don't think we were created with some pain and misery and whatever. I think we were created by whatever this thing is, when it extended itself, and, here we are. But I pile on so many misconceptions that I end up uncomfortable in my own skin.”

Thinking Pain Natural Skins Misery Unhappy Uncomfortable Misconception

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.”

Past Talking Something New Versus Learning Something New

Author:Jack Welch

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”

Writing Alive Posthumous

Author:Tennessee Williams

“When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.”

Water Exercise Training Injury Pool Ballet

Author:Summer Glau

“When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.”

Ifs Dies Drinking

Author:Craig Ferguson

“When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didnt even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.”

Faces Realizing Loses Drinking Makeup Severe Good And Bad

Author:Jason Isbell

“When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.”

Use Beautiful Eating East Indian Meat Selection Spices Eating Meat Indian Food

Author:Laura Mennell

“When I stopped going to doctors offices and taking their prescription medications, I recovered my health!”

Health Doctors Hospitals Going Prescription Taking Stopped Medications Offices Recovered

Author:Steven Magee

“When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.”

World Whole Kids School Lost Existence Teacher Perspective My Friends Whole World Strongest Dose

Author:Kristen Stewart

“When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.”

World Kind Real Whole Moments Energy Changed Ambition Rewards Whole World Fuel Celebration Athletic Aha Moment

Author:Joe Bastianich

“When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.”

Film Moved Realistic Explicit

Author:Danny Kaye

“When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.”

Years Children Book Five Four Havens Married My Children Performing Michigan

Author:Patti Smith

“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

Giving Children Eye Mother Saws Relationship Seeing Mom Birth Parenting Appreciation Mother Daughter Mother Proverbs Mom And Child Eyes Of A Child Special Mother Through The Eyes Of A Child

Author:Nancy Friday

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