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Work
Understand
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Like
Subjects
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
- A. Scott Berg
Never
Had
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
- Aaron Neville
New
Going
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
- Abel Ferrara
Think
Like
I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.
- Adam Ferrara
Industry
Recording
I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
- Adam Lambert
Anchor
Why
Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.
- Adam Michnik
Kid
Part
When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.
- Adam West
Ever
Were
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
- Addison Mizner
Memory
Before
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
- Adela Florence Nicolson
Through
Having
I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
- Agyness Deyn
Everyone
Like
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
- Ahmet Ertegun
Happy
Dancing
I knew I was happy when I was dancing.
- Ajay Naidu
Listening
Kid
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.
- Al Sharpton
Middle
Been
I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
- Alan Furst
Know
Wanted
I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.
- Alan Furst
About
Descend
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
- Alan Patrick Herbert
Part
Least
When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it would take at least 10-15 years to see results of my efforts.
- Alan Stern
Pain
Thought
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
- Alanis Morissette
Always
Which
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
- Alberto Manguel
Grow
Commercials
I actually didn't grow up watching 'Degrassi,' but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn't realize that Drake was the guy from 'Degrassi.' I had to piece it together and go, 'Oh! He's Aubrey Graham.'
- Alessia Cara
Nothing
Dig
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
- Alex Gibney
Films
Mostly
I knew the name; I knew who Leatherface was. But I hadn't seen any of the films, mostly because I'm a scaredy-cat.
- Alexandra Daddario
Had
By The Time
By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
- Alexis Denisof
Watch
Could
I used to watch 'Fresh Prince' all the time. I knew that I could do that.
- Algee Smith
More
Over
I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.
- Alison Goldfrapp
Student
Lifetime
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
- Allan Bloom
Love
Doing
I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.
- Allegra Huston
Night
Had
Any one of my shoes that I had, you knew that, night in, night out, I gave my teammates and my fans everything that I had.
- Allen Iverson
Art
Small
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
- Amanda Harlech
Dunk
Could
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
- Amar'e Stoudemire
Why
Through
I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
- Amber Frey
Loved
Dancing
I knew I loved dancing with my friends.
- Amy Purdy
Health
My Life
It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.
- Amy Purdy
Want
Stories
I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want people to feel sorry for me. I didn't want people to see me as disabled. I wanted to live a life of adventure and stories.
- Amy Purdy
Get Married
Always
I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
- Amy Sedaris
Country
About
I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
- Andie MacDowell
Always
Would
I always knew I would live in France.
- Andre Boucourechliev
Cool
Spanish
When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.
- Andrea Navedo
Always
Could
I always knew I could make it in baseball.
- Andrew Benintendi
Surprise
Might
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Doing
Why
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
- Andrew Mason
Mental
About
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
- Andy Behrman
Game
Queer
When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of 'Project Runway' was in postproduction.
- Andy Cohen
More
Iran
I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
- Andy Rooney
Game
Players
I knew that I have the game to beat the best players.
- Angelique Kerber
Color
Always
I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?
- Angie Thomas
Business
My Life
If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.
- Anne F. Beiler
Mike
Mike Tyson
I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.
- Anne Robinson
Love
Thought
I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.
- Annie Wersching
Contract
Would
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
- Anthony Michael Hall
Germany
Eastern
Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.
- Antje Traue
Think
Dad
I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
- Antoine Predock
Director
Think
When I bagged 'Arundathi,' I don't think I knew how to act. It was because of director Shyamprasad Reddy that I delivered that performance.
- Anushka Shetty
Ever
Writ
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
- Aphra Behn
More
Old
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
- Arabella Weir
Memory
Weight
I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.
- Arjun Rampal
Song
Still
Growing up in the '90s, I just loved 'Ice Ice Baby.' I knew, and still know, every single word to that song.
- Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
Study
Which
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
More
Which
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
- Charles Perrault
Never
Billion
I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.
- Charles Schwab
LeBron
Traded
It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don't know any of those things.
- Chauncey Billups
Always
Going
I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.
- Chazz Palminteri
Color
Answers
When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.
- Chelsea Peretti
Race
Come
I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.
- Chet Faker
Play
Mine
I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64.
- Chris Avellone
Want
Terrified
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
- Chris Colfer
Excelled
Discovered
I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.
- Chris Geere
Thought
News
The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.
- Chris Van Hollen
Sexy
Like
When I first heard 'Harper's Bazaar' wanted me to be sexy, I was like, 'Who, me?' I knew y'all were edgy, but this is incredible - it's validation.
- Chrissy Metz
Everyone
Jerk
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
- Christian Bale
Had
Discovered
I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.
- Christian de Duve
Always
Could
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
- Christiane Amanpour
Max
Had
After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
- Christina Aguilera
His
Were
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
- Christine Keeler
Becoming
Were
We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
- Christopher Shays
Grateful
Gift
I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.
- Cissy Houston
Song
Other
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
- Clarence Clemons
Here
Utter
It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.
- Clifford D. Simak
High Quality
How
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
- Clifton Fadiman
Wife
Arizona
My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
- Clint Eastwood
Agent
Kennedy
President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.
- Clint Hill
Excellent
Very
On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.
- Clive Granger
Father
Old
When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
- Cole Hauser
Going
Obviously
Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.
- Common
Now
Acceptable
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
- Constance Baker Motley
Always
Rough
I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.
- Cristela Alonzo
Music
Had
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.
- Crystal Bowersox
Know
Going
In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.
- Curtis Armstrong
Craft
Study
I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.
- Cush Jumbo
Agent
Could
The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
- Dan Gilbert
Kid
Making
When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
- Dan Harmon
Made
Exactly
I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
- Dan Hawkins
Wanted
Before
I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
- Dani Shapiro
Making
Nixon
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
- Daniel Ellsberg
Act
Wanted
I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.
- Daniel Stern
Going
Could
'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.
- Daniela Bobadilla
Sure
Movie
Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.
- Daniella Alonso
Think
Teaching
We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.
- Darren Flutie
Whole
Making
I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.
- Daryl Hall
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