“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.” PeopleWantYearsWholeWantedFeltChanceFourMissingCollegeNeededBalanceInvolvedScaredWhole LifePushingFour YearsHoping For The BestTime Passes Author:Guy Oseary
“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsChildrenWholeFilmActorsFeltAdultsWhole LifeManageTransitionFilm SetChild Actors Author:Anna Popplewell
“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.” MenDoneWholeFactsAblePastRememberFeltHeardGeniusUniversalMarkWhole LifeRemembranceVaryOrganisationEndowment Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWholeRealityFightingFeltToo MuchNew YorkThis WorldTerribleWhole LifeTerrible ThingsArmstrongOverdoseBergmanKnicksAlways Fighting Author:Woody Allen
“I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.” LongMadeWholeWantedSpiritFeltAliveWhole LifeMade ItFakeMetalsDiscoveringChasingRabbitsCatchingGreyhounds Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensSaidWholeMightGuyFeltNumbersSeriousSpendingWhole LifeAwfulThirtyDriversMight Have BeenYankeesThirty YearsNew York YankeesCabCab Drivers Author:Joe DiMaggio
“I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.” WholeFeltWhole LifeUncomfortable Author:Chaz Bono
“My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.” GivingWellsWholePastBeautifulCertainOrderFeltStageLike YouDrinkStudiosWhole LifeHotelMy Past Author:Lauryn Hill
“I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.” KnowsWholeFeltLevelsGrowing UpGrowingTalentCarTheaterMusicalWhole LifeShowersChuckKnackMusical Theater Author:Zachary Levi
“My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.” TryingLittlesSaidHardWholeRunningFeltMetsHusbandWhole LifeRanMy HusbandNew Things Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.” I CanWholeAbleFeltCan DoComfortableWhole LifeAccentsI Can Do It Author:Sharlto Copley
“I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.” EnoughWholeSeemsWantedSchoolFeltVoiceTheoryLessonsMusicianTrainingPercentWhole LifePianoDecentPiano LessonMusic Theory Author:Adria Petty