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“I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.”

People Years Children Lost Grief Support Failing Expectations My Family Bills Songwriters Liberating

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.”

Wanted Opportunity Lost Stupid My Family Accidents Neighborhood

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Lost Lucky My Family Charity Great Things Legacy Our Family

Author:Michael Buble

“I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.”

Lost My Family Lost Faith

Author:David Sedaris

“I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.”

Games Lost Five Proud My Family Championship Teammate Dukes

Author:Grant Hill

“The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.”

Jobs Lost Economic My Family Crisis Affected Bad Times Economic Crisis

Author:Joey Badass

“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.”

“My wife fosters dogs, to try and give these lost puppies a chance to get adopted. I'm grateful to my wife for that, she brings that element to my family and my kids get to understand what that means.”

Giving Trying Mean Kids Lost Chance Wife Dog Elements My Family Grateful My Wife Adopted Puppy

Author:Dan Payne

“One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.”

I Can States Reason Home Jobs Lost Felt United United States Comfortable My Family Alternatives Burned

Author:Edward Snowden

“I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“At a young age, I became very aware that not only did my family have to struggle but that families around the country were struggling as well. Also, being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.”

Wells Country Age Young Political Lost Careers Struggle My Family Prejudice Holocaust Young Age

Author:Bernie Sanders

“By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.”

Knows Mean Lost My Family Kitchen Hopeless Chef Suicidal Friendless

Author:Glenn Beck

“Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.”

Character Kids Lost Four Streets Brother My Family Temporary Four Brothers

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

Real Stories Wanted Earth Pain Lost Bits Sun Flower Horror My Family Smallest Lovely Bones

Book:The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.”

“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.”

Source: Prep: a novel

“I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-”

Thinking Said Might Lasts Lost Bits Answers Boys Missing Sweet Cat My Family British Attractive Cheeks Teenage Jace Stretching Flyers Crumpets

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior”

Lost My Family Assured Tobias Tris Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.”

Thinking Years Mind Heart Together Lost Loss Sleep My Family Sick Died Golf Faithful Allies Discovering Of My Mind Years Together

Author:Ben Crenshaw

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