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Related I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records. JIMMY PAGE I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm ve... NOAH BAUMBACH I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my cre... JAMES WAN My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I was... PAMELA ADLON They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job. BRIAN CLOUGH I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn't going to people's weddings; I ... MEGYN KELLY My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. AARON PAUL I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind. KIESZA What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every ... JACQUELINE BISSET From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me... BROWNIE MCGHEE I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families. VICTORIA GOTTI If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsover. DAVID LETTERMAN I just think more precaution should be taken when I'm inside the pocket. Look at all the replays... MICHAEL VICK I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt. BENNY HINN Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind ... PIA ZADORA I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's lik... LARRY BIRD I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can h... DR. DRE Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated ... DANNY MASTERSON My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't eve... DAKOTA JOHNSON People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they do... AL GREEN I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and i... MEGHAN O'ROURKE I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them ... CANDACE CAMERON BURE I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was of... CHARLI XCX I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn... BLAIR UNDERWOOD I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but m... TREVOR ST. JOHN I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste. EARL SWEATSHIRT I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route. MITCH GAYLORD I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ... RUTH B If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market. DICK GREGORY When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn'... JOHNNY GALECKI I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th. BONNIE RAITT When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik... GIL SCOTT-HERON I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn&... TY DOLLA SIGN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk r... BILLY IDOL I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' r... MEGYN KELLY I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a c... TRISHA YEARWOOD I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it. TAMER HASSAN I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. NICK CAVE America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of d... TREVOR NOAH Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soo... TRAVIS BARKER 'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mi... THE WEEKND I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work. KAT DENNINGS I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once sp... TRACY POLLAN On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, ... DIMEBAG DARRELL With 'Bangarang,' I didn't make any announcement, no campaign. I just put it on my Faceb... SKRILLEX I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in... KATE MOSS I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a g... PETER FARRELLY At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me. EDDIE MARSAN I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about i... PAUL FLEISCHMAN The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea. JOHN SEBASTIAN I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage. KEVIN MITNICK Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark... EMMA THOMAS I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchan... ROBERT D. HARE I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal wh... HUGO PRATT When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn... NICOLE SCHERZINGER I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it'... EVAN RACHEL WOOD I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain... BURT BACHARACH I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just d... PAGET BREWSTER You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug... AIMEE MANN Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport. ELENA DELLE DONNE If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. SHERMAN ALEXIE I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very norm... DIRK BENEDICT It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high ... MARY CHENEY I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little di... BILLY HOWLE I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable... SIENNA MILLER 'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't po... WILLIAM J. MANN Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn&... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, s... ROGER MCGOUGH I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen... ZOSIA MAMET My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off ... BETTY FORD In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of... ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certain... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.... JES MACALLAN I wanted to have a label to not only release my own stuff but to also give young talent a chance to ... MARTIN GARRIX I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean... ALEXEI SAYLE If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived mys... ORLA BRADY If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable. CARRIE FISHER My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' ... LEE DANIELS I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri... PATRICK ROTHFUSS My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don&... ELLSWORTH KELLY If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever... TONY DUNGY I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a ... TOM STURRIDGE I'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, ... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I witnessed a home birth with my sister Khloe and, after seeing it, I felt it wasn't for me. The... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. CARROLL SHELBY My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then ... MIKA BRZEZINSKI I wasn't ready to say, I can't play anymore. And I'm still not. JAMIE MOYER One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there's always going ... ALFIE ALLEN I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I... ACE FREHLEY It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about ... VANILLA ICE Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn... EILEEN MYLES
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