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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Bob Dylan I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anne Perry I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Ann Rule I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Walters I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bryan Adams I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • A. A. Milne I'm giving this to Eeyore, he explained, as a present. What are you going to give?
    Couldn't I give it too? said Piglet. From both of us?
    No, said Pooh. That would not be a good plan.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Six
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Manning I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
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  • Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Caleb Carr I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • Aretha Franklin If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
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  • Emily Brontë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Billy Higgins If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Bruce Forsyth If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bill Bruford If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Karl Albrecht If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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