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  • Allan Carr I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Ace Frehley I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bryce Harper I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Lauren Bacall I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
    Lauren Bacall
    American actress and singer (1924 - 2014)
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  • Tom Lehrer I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Will Rogers I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Rebecca West I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Amy Tan I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Alistair Maclean I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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  • Ben Lovett I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Buck Owens I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bela Lugosi I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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