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  • Carol Shields I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
    Middlesex (2003) 217
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Ben Affleck I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charles de Secondat I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
    Charles de Secondat
     
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  • Al Pacino I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Buddy Guy I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Bryan White I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Ted Turner I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Paul Harvey I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
    Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • Alan Bennett I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I've never turned down a fight in the UFC. Even when I was champ, I never turned down a fight.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Margaret Atwood I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Bill McCartney I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
    From Ashes to Glory
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Joan Collins I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
    Joan Collins
     
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Brantley I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • A. E. Housman I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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