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I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
Jennifer Lopez

Life, Movies, Trying

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
Jennifer Lopez

Life, Great, Experience

I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
Shaquille O'Neal

Dog, Everybody, Wants

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
Emeril Lagasse

Good, Down, Give

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
Dennis Rodman

Great, Smart, Game

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
Bob Woodward

Courage, Deep, View

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
Charlize Theron

I always knew I would adopt. Always.
Charlize Theron

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
Gary Oldman

End, Done, Here

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
Rick Springfield

Time, Spiritual, Off

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
Rick Springfield

Music, Wanted, Once

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Jet Li

Learning, School, Nothing

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul

Good, Heart, Lost

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul

Children, Nothing, Child

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman

Love, Heart, Thought

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
George Michael

Career, America, Away

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Greta Garbo

Difficult, Dream, Hollywood

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
Scott Hamilton

Funny, Best, School

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
Natalie Portman

Hard, Different, Serious

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.
Jimmy Piersall

Best, Until, Nobody

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.
Kid Rock

Work, Rock, Long

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
Ashley Tisdale

Business, Old, Wanted

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken

Business, Nothing, Wanted

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.
Jennifer Garner

Heart, Problem, Somebody

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
Ben Okri

Else, Another, Keep

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
Michelle Malkin

King, Shame, Tv

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
Sherri Shepherd

Black, Thought, Talk

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Harrison Ford

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
Venus Williams

Win, Destiny, Big

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
Sidney Poitier

Black, Movie, Theater

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