“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.” IfsWantWritingBookCharacterStoriesJobsYoungUsedGirlReadingAdultsDecidedSeriesYoung AdultUsed To BeGossipEditorsEditingProposalGossip GirlCinderella Story Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.” WorldStillsBigsYoungProcessIssuesIdentityToughDecidedTeenagerBelongingNationality Author:Hiam Abbass
“I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsJobsYoungNumbersSuccessfulHavensLike YouDecidedYeahCreditSatisfiedBeing SuccessfulTranslateGood JobGrammyEmmys Author:Ester Dean
“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.” KindArtBookKidsYoungArtistGuyDecidedBeing YourselfCornCornyYoung Artists Author:Walt Disney
“Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.” WantSaidYoungAttitudeEmptyDecidedOkayShiningShoesCupsGangsters Author:Quincy Jones
“In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.” GivingYearsYoungArtistGirlAsksRealizingDealsIndustryMajorsDecidedArticlesPromotionExclusiveMusic IndustryHope For The Future Author:Taylor Swift
“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.” SaidMatterWould BeYoungChurchViewsAliveBrotherHealthyHorrorPureDecidedPrejudiceUnionsDuesSnowBrothers And SistersOffspringPolygamyBros Author:Abraham H. Cannon
“Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple. I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.” PeopleWantTryingI CanKidsAgeSchoolYoungAnswersTeachCollegeDegreesDecidedApplesMailPoliteYoung AgeCollege Degree Author:Steve Wozniak
“My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.” LittlesPlayHomeAgeTogetherYoungSongRecordsBrotherLessonsDecidedPianoYoung AgeLittle BrotherPiano LessonMy Little Brother Author:Josephine de La Baume
“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.” LongAgeWantedYoungLevelsHighestDecidedSoccerYoung Age Author:Mia Hamm
“I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.” MenFeelsHomeBigsAgeYoungFeltWeakDecidedIndependenceChaosRelyStableHouseholdHelplessBig ThingsYoung Age Author:Christina Aguilera
“Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about.” GivingWritingYearsYoungGirlBabyCoupleDecidedScriptsAbortionPregnantAdoptionUptight Author:Ellen Page
“I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.” FirstsWantedYoungActorsSawsDecidedSaw Movie Author:Dennis Hopper
“He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.” WayHardHelpingYoungPlayerDecidedDown AndLeagueMinorsClawsHard WayWildcard Author:Andy Roddick
“Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art... So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could.” IfsNeedsYearsArtCountryBeautifulYoungOpportunitySeeingYears AgoDecidedDeterminedOur CountryIf I CouldWorks Of ArtBeautiful Things Author:Isabella Stewart Gardner
“I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.” WritingBelieveChildrenBookWarAgeWantedYoungBoysWifeTerribleDecidedHorseExtraordinaryStealingBunchGreekMeritFraudBelieve In MeTerrible ThingsTrickyIntervalsChildren's BooksAchillesIliadTrojansAjaxTrojan War Author:James A. Michener
“My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.” YoungUsedMotherNamesBornWallPaperDecidedMagazinesBedroomPrettiest Author:Loretta Lynn
“There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.” PeopleHelpingWantedChristianYoungSubjectsInvolvedElementsAdultsDecidedCharityYoung AdultGods WillRealismServing GodGet InvolvedDemonic Author:Ralph Sarchie
“What I was interested in wasn't popular and young, but I never really deviated from doing it. I just decided that I was going to go full force into exactly what I wanted. I think there's a certain comfort that comes with age and experience, and when I got that, I think my work got better.” ThinkingAgeWantedYoungCertainForceComfortDecidedAge And Experience Author:Jason Wu
“I've been obsessed with making movies since I was 15. I watched a lot of movies when I was young, and I decided that I wanted to do that because I was a passionate kid about watching movies.” KidsWantedYoungDecidedPassionateObsessed Author:Quentin Dupieux
“I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.” AgeYoungSocialDecidedYoung AgeSocial Service Author:Joan Jett
“When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of them? Why so close together? Why were they all so young? Why, especially, in the kinds of places where we are from? Why would they all die back to back to back to back? I feel like I was writing my way towards an answer in the memoir.” WayFeelsWritingKindTogetherYoungDiesAnswersBrotherDecidedMemoirMy WayMy BrotherAttempting Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was the day that I decided that I have to go now.” WellsYoungThreeJudgingDecidedPalestinianJerusalemKidnappingSettlers Author:Sayed Kashua
“This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.” IfsThinkingMenWritingBookRealStoriesHandsRunningFilmYoungCertainTurnsBoysComedyParticularPerspectiveNeededDecidedYeahPhrasesScreenplaysHeartwarmingRampOlder ManVamp Author:Rhys Darby
“I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After living there for a few years I decided to move out of London, so I decided to rent it out for a few years. Then, as the property market continued to rise, I made the decision to sell.” YearsFirstsMadeMovingYoungDecisionViewsDecidedSellsPropertyInvestmentLondon Author:Andy Murray
“In my mind that's the best thing I can do for my girl, is to love my body and the way I look. That's what I sort of decided when she was young. And so it's sort of about faking it until you can make it.” WayMindLooksI CanBodyYoungGirlCan DoDecidedBest ThingsMy GirlFaking It Author:Lauren Bowles
“When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.” PeopleKnowsTryingBelieveYoungPresidentPovertyRightsCollegeLike YouMonthsCoupleRepublicanDecidedCivil RightsVotingCampsJohnsonRight To VoteEnding PovertyOff To CollegePresident Johnson Author:Hillary Clinton
“Younger people are younger a little longer these days, so we know a lot of 32-year-olds who are still quite young, haven't quite gotten their life paths completely decided yet.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesStillsYoungPathHavensDecidedThese DaysLife Path Author:Daniel Palladino
“Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy to play the part. I was young, they offered me the lead in the film, and I said, "Sure, I'll do it." And I'm telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits. We would literally grab a shot and run. But Rent Control... I think the total cost was $100,000, and to this director's credit, I think it looks like $200,000.” ThinkingLooksMeanMadeSaidPlayRunningFilmYoungGuyWaitingComedyWrittenStreetsNew YorkCostDirectorsShotsDecidedScriptsCreditGirlfriendPermitLead InRent Control Author:Brent Spiner
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.” PeopleWantWritingI CanYoungGirlCan DoStupidColorDecidedPurple Author:Danica Patrick
“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.” PeopleWayDifferentYoungDecidedDifferent WaysMy TimeBobFrankDylanCataloguesHank Williams Author:Bruce Springsteen
“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.” MenYoungLyingStyleWasteDecidedPressureYoung ManWasting TimeUnder Pressure Author:Michael Chabon
“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?” IfsWorldMadeYoungGivenBirthDecidedMonstersTolerateYoung WomenJack The Ripper Book:Lost: A Novel Source: Lost: A Novel
“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.” IfsMenWayMindTwoWarEndsEyeYoungEasyWaterToo MuchDoorsConversationMouthsTasksDecidedSmellSavedYoung ManBoxingScreamHuntsDiscussingBoxing Matches Book:City of Thieves: A Novel Source: City of Thieves: A Novel
“You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he was saying?" "Not a lot of the time, no," Halt said. Crowley shook his head in wonder. "It's just as well he didn't go into the Diplomatic Service. We'd be at war with half a dozen countries by now if he was on the loose." Will drew a deep breath to begin talking. He noticed that both men took an involuntary half step backward and he decided he'd better try to keep it as simple as possible.” IfsMenTryingYearsWellsSaidWarCountryEnoughYoungSimpleHalfTalkingWonderStepsSixDecidedBreathsYoung ManDozenHaltDiplomaticDeep BreathInvoluntary Author:John Flanagan
“As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” MenGivingLittlesTodayYoungGoneForeverTomorrowEternalDecidedAbsolutesYesterdayYoung ManHere Today Gone Tomorrow Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.” GivingRealShowsYoungNextEffectsMissingDecidedDressesBlueMovedLegsNosesKneesPairsLengthPlatformsDisgraceBenchesSkirtsExposingDisapprovalHummingStockings Author:Libba Bray
“It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.” MenWantWellsLooksMayLittlesSaidYoungLaughingDrinkNormalDecidedBlueSurpriseScaredYoung ManShopsSilverGrayMiceCostumesDoorwaysSophieMay DayPerfectly Normal Author:Diana Wynne Jones
“In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.” PeopleWayHumansMeanYoungEffortCitiesRightsSocietyYouthFutureDecidedRaisesBraveHuman RightsUnemployedCountrysideTorchesThis Society Author:Martin Almada
“I decided on a vision. I think I maybe join Toyota at the midpoint of a project, whose long-term goal is winning world championships. Also I have my big ambition, the drivers' world championship. That is not abandoned - entirely the opposite. I am young enough and motivated enough to make a new start in order to reach this goal.” ThinkingWorldLongEnoughBigsYoungOrderWinningGoalTermVisionAmbitionProjectsDecidedOppositesLong TermDriversMotivatedAbandonedChampionshipNew StartToyotaLong Term Goals Author:Michael Schumacher
“When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.” YoungUsedCivilizationHumorousDecidedWesternContributionDeclineWestern Civilization Book:Napalm & Silly Putty Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.” PeopleMomentsYoungLevelsBloodAdventureTravelDecidedGloriousTragicFunny TravelAsiaSoutheast Asia Author:William Kunstler
“When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.” PeopleKnowsWantBelieveHas BeensCareYoungActorsI BelieveInterestRaceYouthDivinePlanetsDiversityDecidedSpeciesI Believe InActiveHonestlyWho I AmExpertsBiologyGenocidePunkEcologySpoiledCockyEnvironmentalistBiodiversityDivine RightDiversity Of Life Author:Leonardo DiCaprio