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I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Always
Surprise
Successful
Element
The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and it was safe.
Aja Brown
Beautiful
People
Mother
Community
About
Knew
Safe
Another
Cared
I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.
Aja Brown
Work
Politics
Thought
Community
Live
Though
Would
Some
No Idea
Classmates
Had
Knew
Idea
Like
Go
Even
Ever
Before I knew it, I was singing, 'I'm so tired of being alone,' and that's Al right there. From then, my attitude was, 'Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I'm not going to emulate them anymore.'
Al Green
Attitude
Alone
Tired
Singing
Before
Knew
Emulate
Going
Being
Anymore
James
Being Alone
Them
Then
Al
Right
I figured that if we had to choose the woman president, she'd be the first woman president, and if we had the kid from Honolulu and the Harvard graduate, we'd have the first black president. They were both lawyers, and they knew the law, and I saw Obama and said that he's got some vision, and that's what a lot of people are latching on to.
Al Green
Woman
People
Vision
Law
Black
First
President
Honolulu
Saw
Kid
Harvard
Obama
Some
Be The First
Lawyers
Both
Had
He
Knew
She
Said
Got
Were
Woman President
Lot
Graduate
Choose
Figured
In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.
Al Sharpton
Crazy
You
Man
Yourself
Dignified
Those
Slim
Pounds
Knew
Attention
Lights
New
Always
Got
Refine
Refined
Square
Times
Times Square
Get
York
New York
Anyone
Then
Competing
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.
Al Sharpton
Age
Strange
People
Listening
Preach
Preaching
Consider
Kid
Never
Knew
Until
Around
Limitations
Were
Wanted
Even
Grown
Believed
Four
Thirteen
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon
Happiness
Giving
Everything
Knew
Real
Real Happiness
Received
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
Alan Alda
Me
Made
First
Rich
Everyone
Never
Had
Knew
Supposed
Boy
Famous
Want
Wanted
Really
View
I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.
Alan Arkin
Word
Before
Knew
Since
Always
Doing
Been
Improviser
Acting
Even
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.
Alan Arkin
Me
Money
Guitar
Earned
Meetings
Sold
Jobs
Find
Some
No Question
Absolutely
Had
Knew
Around
Question
Jump
Survive
Any
Just
Arts
Being
Stories
While
Little
To Survive
Little Money
Acting
Union
Connected
Functions
Here
Playing
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
Alan Ball
Work
Love
True Love
Family
Conflict
Understanding
Guess
Sold
Able
Perfect
Through
Never
Knew
True
Ideal
Well-Adjusted
Sure
Exist
America
Any
Confront
Them
Things
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
Alan Bradley
Work
Own
Would
Would-Be
Something
My Own
More
Knew
Long-Lasting
Always
Material
Than
Wanted
Short-Lived
Electronic
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.
Alan Dershowitz
Myself
Lawyer
Kind
Exactly
Never
Had
Knew
Always
Existential
Going
Wanted
Asked
Moment
I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
Alan Furst
Myself
Me
People
Police
Value
State
Way
General
Emotional
Never
Had
Knew
Know
Until
Police State
Been
Middle
Found
Four
Two
The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.
Alan Furst
Funny
Time
People
Live
Months
No Time
Knew
Attracted
Another
Were
Time People
Six
Might
I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.
Alan Furst
Write
Writer
Knew
Know
Wanted
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Alan Kay
Time
Me
Age
Three
Lying
Fluently
Books
Misfortune
Had
Knew
Learn
Read
How
Were
Hit
Grade
Maybe
Teachers
Fortune
Starting
By The Time
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
Alan Lomax
Art
First
Important
Met
Sit
Down
Everything
Tried
Record
Give
Knew
Singers
Always
Real
Them
Thing
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
Music
Saying
Me
Book
Ought
Back
Collected
Folk
Folk Music
See
Songs
He
Knew
Days
Come
Sing
Go
American
Dylan
Bobby
Next
Used
Village
Lived
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
Alan Moore
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Audience
Artist
Wanted
Then
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
Alan Rickman
Good
Out
Knew
Very
Double
Agent
Working
Turns
I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
Alan Ruck
People
School
Drama
High
Angeles
High School
Knew
New
Know
Cleveland
Because
Doing
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Chicago
New People
Up
York
New York
Anybody
Grew
After
After-School
Really
Who
Illinois
Started
Plays
University
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
Alan Shepard
Family
Me
Financial
College
Difficult
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Also
Because
Go
Condition
I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.
Alan Sugar
You
Old
Background
One Thing
Steal
Knew
Abuse
Policeman
Came
Years
Deprived
Thing
Socially
Things
Two
'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
Albert Brooks
Me
You
Director
Drive
Think
Ears
About
Casting
He
Knew
Talked
Read
Because
Said
Always
Came
Up
Manager
Just
Heavy
Wanting
Should
Play
Albert
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