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“When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.”

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.”

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Author:Fred Rogers

“When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.”

Should Book Different Reason Young Bits Discipline Should Have Fishes Ships Courageous Favourite Sail Captains Young Ones Rigs Favourite Book

Author:Clive James

“When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.”

Young Week Tvs Circles Maps Globes

Author:William Monahan

“When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.”

People Dream Reality Young Five Four Six Motive Rama Apprehension

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.”

People Way Different Young Decided Different Ways My Time Bob Frank Dylan Catalogues Hank Williams

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.”

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Author:David Coverdale

“When I was visiting her a few years ago she hugged me and said, 'Tomorrow after you leave I will stand here at this window and remember that yesterday you were right here with me.' And now she's dead and I have that feeling all the time, no matter where I stand.”

Death Loss Grief Memory Grieving

Author:Lily King

Source: Writers & Lovers

“When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.”

Men Said Sound Water Silence Walking Mountain Waterfalls

Author:Jack Gilbert

“When I was weak, I was full of fear. When I was strong, I was full of hope. When I was a happy, I was full of peace. When I was a sad, I was full of suffering. When I was poor, I was full of gratitude. When I was rich, I was full of longing. When I was wise, I was full of grace. When I was foolish, I was full of ignorance. When I was a child, I was full of joy. When I was a youth, I was full of laughter. When I was an adult, I was full of trouble. When I was an elder, I was full of wisdom.”

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Author:Matshona Dhliwayo

“When I was wearing a hazmat suit and a gas mask to shop in the USA during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was surprised everyone at the stores I would go to would treat me like a normal customer.”

Covid 19 Hazmat Suit I Was Surprised When I Was During The Early Days Of Gas Mask Shop In The Usa Normal Customer Stores I Would Go To Treat Me Like

Author:Steven Magee

“When I was wearing a hazmat suit and a gas mask to shop in the USA during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was surprised I was never challenged by anyone for my identity or refused entry to the store.”

Covid 19 I Was Surprised When I Was During The Early Days Of Gas Mask Shop In The Usa My Identity Never Challenged Refused Entry Wearing A Hazmat Suit

Author:Steven Magee

“When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.”

Wanted Greater Mines Willing Letting Go Latter

Author:Anita Moorjani

“When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'”

Looks Mines Cheaper Wigs Warhol

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.”

People Ifs Knows Honest Honestly

Author:Anne Heche

“When I was with Elvis, I used to remind myself there's Elvis on the marquee and then there's the living, breathing Elvis.”

Used Breathing Marquee

Author:Linda D. Thompson

“When I was with her it was as though something was being drawn out of me. The darkness became lighter, the crippled straighter, and the strange thing was that it didn't come from outside, it wasn't that she lit the darkness, no, it was something that happened inside me because I saw myself with her eyes, and not just my own, and in her eyes there was nothing wrong with me, quite the contrary. In this way the balance shifted. When I was with her I no longer wished to do myself any harm.”

Love Self Lovers In Love

Author:Karl Ove Knausgård

Source: Min kamp 5

“When I was with him, I felt like a book worth reading all the way through again and again and again. Sure, he liked my cover. I wanted him to, but I wanted him to like everything else too. I imagined him buying the book, studying it, quoting it, memorizing his favorite parts. He’d keep it with him always, like a Bible, hold it sacred even when the cover fell off and the book became bent with age and use. Maybe, he’d be buried with it. That’s all I wanted.”

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Author:Candice Raquel Lee

Source: The Innocent: A Myth

“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was just a person – like everyone else.”

“When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself as a trophy-something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf, ignored and forgotten.”

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Author:Joan Frances Casey

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself of a trophy—something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf ignored and forgotten.”

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Author:Joan Frances Casey

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.”

Writing Party Trouble Policy Labor Determined Boss

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.”

People Thinking Kind Worship Method Make Sense Bizarre Serpent Tennessee

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.”

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Author:Nicole Krauss

Source: Great House: A Novel

“When I was with you, those were the only moments I could breathe.”

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Author:Roe Horvat

Source: A Love Song for the Sad Man in the White Coat

“When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.”

Kind School Felt Parent Son Picks Guilty My Son Cookies Working A Lot

Author:Barbra Streisand

“When I was working at a biologically toxic facility, it was unfortunate that I was on a green card application that prevented me from changing employers. From the point of view of long term health, I was able to leave in a sickened state shortly after receiving it.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.”

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Author:Larkin Grimm

“When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.”

Years Firsts Made Bigs Night Three Break Months Three Months Previous Years

Author:Jack McBrayer

“When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."”

Knows Wells Deals Events Creating Mass Disaster Superiors Data Japan Scope Surveillance

Author:Edward Snowden

“When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.”

Firsts Bigs Jobs Sides Creative Building Construction Architect Engineering

Author:Bernard Arnault

“When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.”

Way Book Ideas Stories Wanted Focused Infidelity

Author:Junot Diaz

“When I was working on Big Fan, I didnt really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.”

Way Feels Said Bigs Lines Fans Changed Needed Scripts

Author:Kevin Corrigan

“When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.”

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Author:Ashley Judd

“When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.”

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Author:Kurt Russell

“When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.”

Writing Firsts Use Wanted Novel Nurture About Friendship Apprentice Quilters

Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!”

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Author:Deyth Banger

“When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.”

Children Simplicity I Realized Lullaby

Author:Patti Smith

“When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.”

Done Song Pop Song

Author:Sofia Coppola

“When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don't need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment.”

Thinking Needs Giving Different Moments Energy Sports Type Athlete Diets That Moment Explosives Cookbook Carbohydrates

Author:William Katt

“When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, "This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven."”

Together Heaven Holy Scene Singing Cat Dancing Wire

Author:Lance Reddick

“When I was working on Young Guru's team, I learned just how important it was to become a part of the digital divide. At the time we were working on getting Guru more exposure for Era of the Engineer, and diving into the case studies, let me know that if we don't do something now and something quick, so many black and brown children will be wheezing in the background in the tech space.”

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Author:Shana Digital

“When I was working on Young Guru's team, I learned just how important it was to become a part of the solution in reference to the digital divide. At the time we were working on getting Guru more exposure for Era of the Engineer, and diving into the case studies, let me know that if we don't do something now and something quick, so many black and brown children will be wheezing in the background in the tech space.”

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Author:Shana Digital

“When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.”

Made Albums Versions Tunes Blast Disco Rio

Author:Sheena Easton

“When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.”

Knows Challenges Photography Shots Impact Photographer Cinema Frank

Author:Ralph Gibson

“When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."”

Feels Eye Audience Response Wide Stanley

Author:Nicole Kidman

“When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.”

Trying Sometimes Running Interesting Situation Listening Track Things Happen

Author:Brian Eno

“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.”

Wells Order Amount Taxes My Family Paid Safety Well Being Guarantees

Author:Lauryn Hill

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