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“When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.”

Audience Please Performers

Author:Shirley Temple

“When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.”

Knows Way Feels Chance Lows Pilots Airplane Crash Chances Are Airplane Crashes

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.”

Knows Changed Stranger Pitcher Malls Houston Colorado

Author:Brad Lidge

“When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again”

Want Successful Plebeians

Author:Paula Cole

“When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.”

Country Matter States Political Winning Poor Leader Rich Republican Democrat Political Leaders

Author:David Shuster

“When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.”

People Littles Stars Five Fans Conservative Boxes Pops Pop Stars

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“When you're a producer on top of that, just havin' a beat that's hot is not enough. Now you know your sound, 'cause you've been workin' on your sound for so long, and now you're extra picky. You might do a beat that's ill, that the average rapper would pay big money to get on, but you don't wanna do it because you're like, "Ehhh... it's not what I'm looking for, it's not what I'm goin' for." So you're extra picky.”

Knows Long Enough Bigs Might Causes Sound Pay Beats Hot Average Ill Producers Extras Rapper Picky

Author:J. Cole

“When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.”

Given Directors Projects Producers Sweat

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“When you're a producer, you don't feel comfortable trying to push a vocalist when you first start out. But for me, I like to push the boundaries of what my collaborators are comfortable with.”

Trying Boundaries Producers

Author:SBTRKT

“When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.”

Way Matter Shows Might Jobs Sick Paid No Matter What Strategy Productive Sick Days

Author:Charlaine Harris

“When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.”

Feels Jobs

Author:Jeff Bridges

“When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.”

Ifs Way Kind Periods Beats Hot Rap Settling Rapper

Author:J. Cole

“When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.”

Looks Long Bigs Lines Feet Mouths Mirrors Seven Actresses Screens Daylight Gals Big Screen Rearview Mirror Rear View

Author:Sharon Stone

“When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.”

Giving Shows Tvs Tv Shows Gigs Recurring

Author:Alan Dale

“When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.”

People Mean Shows Embrace Our Family

Author:Melinda McGraw

“When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.”

World Saving Hanging Out Hung Save The World Gangsters

Author:Kate Bornstein

“When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."”

Thinking Littles Stories Directors Tough Drivers Mechanic Hood Screenwriters

Author:Thomas Bidegain

“When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .”

Men Years Littles Made Different Self Strong Cases Strength Ambition Encouragement Stronger Nine Income Nine Years Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Kirk Kerkorian

“When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.”

Actors Stars Walks Boxes Apples Ramp

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.”

Parent Lonely Mothering Single Parent Backup

Author:Amy Dickinson

“When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me.”

Way Mean Persons Artist Pay Band Add Expenses Realising Thank God Solo Bugs Salary Comical

Author:Marnie Stern

“When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.”

People World Song Wonder Personal Life

Author:Will Sheff

“When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.”

Use Light Games Imagination Personality Mass Unique Murder Muscles Drag Marvelous Earthquakes Kicking

Author:Rick Bragg

“When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.”

People Way Hard Play Would Be Comedy Fronts Timing Stand Up Comedy

Author:Dean Norris

“When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.”

People Stories Environment Happenings Work Out

Author:Kate Tempest

“When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.”

Want Feels Reason Students Like You Adults

Author:Simon Pegg

“When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.”

Ifs Littles Realizing Students Lucky Untalented

Author:Tony Hoagland

“When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.”

Love Persons High School Obvious Teenager

Author:John Scalzi

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“When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.”

Mind Ideas Creative Teenager Nuts Creative Mind

Author:Christian Siriano

“When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.”

Years Littles Reason Happens Kids Worry Things Happen Teenager Insecurity No Reason Little Kid No Worries

Author:Kristen Stewart

“When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Looks Littles Ends Problem Seems Young Becoming Honor Picks Wake Up Yeah Extremes Silly Teenager Trends Waking Dystopian End Of The World Silly Things

Author:Veronica Roth

“When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.”

Want Emotion Surface Teenager

Author:Emma Roberts

“When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.”

Knows Want Girl Teenager Faithful Girlfriend Loyal Being Faithful Your Girlfriend Funny Girlfriend Girl You Want

Author:Nas

“When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.”

Seems Grows Growing Up Luxury Teenager Bubbles Baths Frivolity Bubble Bath

Author:Sarah Addison Allen

Source: The Peach Keeper

“When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.”

Certain Levels Rocks Musician Tension Touring

Author:Mark Kozelek

“When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.”

Trying Challenges Musician Exciting Tension Depressing Music Business Stressful Redundant

Author:Mark Kozelek

“When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.”

Ifs Made Voice Lines Walks Rights Heard Identity Sweet Fine Female Ideals Males Privilege Feminine Accused Masculine Entitlement Trans Parody Fine Lines Passivity Male Privilege Demure

Author:Julia Serano

Source: Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

“When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.”

People Persons Ambitious Enthusiastic Disappointing Ambitious Person

Author:Reba McEntire

“When you're a very career-oriented woman, sometimes you don't have as much time to go meet all kinds of guys. You're a little bit limited to the guys that work in your office. I think a lot of girls can relate to that problem.”

Thinking Kind Littles Sometimes Problem Guy Girl Bits Careers Office Little Bit All Kinds Relate

Author:Piper Perabo

“When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.”

Force Powerful Built Victim Faults Excuse

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.”

Way Shows Skills Sells Geek

Author:Temple Grandin

“When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her... So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone... And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.”

Believe Wells Looks Said Whole Girl Three Known Fashion Decided Exciting Towns Photographer Studios Curious Excellent Agency Well Known Modeling

Author:Jurgen Teller

“When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.”

Ifs Attitude Basketball Winner Loser Always Happy Winner And Loser Winners And Winning I Always Win

Author:Mark Fidrych

Source: No big deal

“When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.”

Film Mother Roles Best Times

Author:Shirley Knight

“When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Looks Doe Seems Force Married What You Want Your Best Friend Look At Yourself

Author:Kristen Wiig

“When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.”

Certain Amount Fame Motive

Author:Patricia Richardson

“When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.”

Laughing Hard Work Harder Reminders Work Harder

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.”

Book Sooner Or Later Acquaintance

Author:Steven Pressfield

“When you're a writer and you're a producer, traditionally the junkets are really focused on the beautiful people and nobody wants to talk to you.”

People Want Beautiful Focused Producers Beautiful People

Author:Damon Lindelof

“When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.”

People Sometimes Normal Sane End Times Spend Time

Author:Vikram Chandra

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