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My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was. -- David Warner
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be. -- George Lucas
You can't disassemble a bomb unless you understand how it was built. -- Josh Tickell
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done. -- Samuel Beckett
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. -- Black Elk
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet -- Robert Browning
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. -- Ross MacDonald
Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been. -- Richelle Mead
Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy. -- Judy Blume
we were justlooking for what couldinstead of what waswhat should beinstead of how it was -- Dominic Riccitello
God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used -- Walter Smith
I went inside my heartto see how it was.Something there makes me hearthe whole world weeping. -- Rumi
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too. -- Arthur Hiller
Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not. -- Colin Stetson
Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. -- Jenny Han
As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. -- Margaret Atwood
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done. -- Terry Pratchett
I didn't know how it was to be a bachelor. I never felt like one. I think it's a mental state. -- Riteish Deshmukh
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced. -- Errol Morris
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. -- Harrison Ford
Call me a Freak all u want really...I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended. -- Daleen Van Tonder
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. -- Harlan Coben
I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was. -- Tyler, The Creator
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me! -- Jamaica Kincaid
Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not - I didn't qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race. -- Bernie Ecclestone
Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color. -- Lenny Kravitz
I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was. -- Nikki Sanderson
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future. -- Immortal Technique
I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown. -- Joel Salatin
She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different. -- Mervyn Peake
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind. -- Dan Rosensweig
This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game. -- Benji Marshall
If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult. -- Hulk Hogan
I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid. -- Todd Barry
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could -- e. e. cummings
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish. -- Melissa de la Cruz
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days. -- Erika Slezak
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints. -- Leonard Nimoy
Awkward.That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do. -- Markus Zusak
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then. -- Bruce Dern
I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was. -- Brooke Hogan
I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made. -- Josh Smith
No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)" we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today. -- Josip Broz Tito
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. -- Harvey Fierstein
When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did. -- Hamilton Leithauser
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity. -- Clement Greenberg
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities. -- Mary Quant
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times. -- Jasper Fforde
HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood. -- Mathieu Kassovitz
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth? -- Jandy Nelson
If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference? -- Matt Ridley
My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.' -- Olivia Thirlby
And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly... -- Kristin Hannah
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. -- Martin Scorsese
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was. -- W. G. Sebald
It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments. -- LaToya London
With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out. -- Alex Winter
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. -- Anton Seidl
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture. -- James Daly
I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical. -- Rico Love
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. -- Dolly Parton
I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. -- John Green
But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart? -- Stephen King
I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!' -- Patrick Duffy
Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?A: I never made a calculationQ: What do you think?A: I do not think about things I don't think about.Q: Do you think about things you do think about?A: Well, sometimes. -- Scopes Trial
It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored. -- Idris Elba
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it. -- Keith Urban
However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. -- Geezer Butler
It was really exciting to see how 'Bridesmaids' was accepted and how well it did. -- Lauren Miller
When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be. -- Gabriela Sabatini
It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it. -- Laura Dekker
It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was. -- Bill Cosby
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37. -- John Mahoney
I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was. -- Peggy Fleming
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. -- Kurt Vonnegut
For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do. -- Dennis Quaid
I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself. -- Jason Scott Lee
I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot. -- Thomas Howes
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it. -- T Bone Burnett
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. -- Oscar Isaac
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that. -- Hailee Steinfeld
But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth. -- Anita Roddick
Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child. -- Laura Wasser
I really love a challenge, but in 'Downton' it was really hard going because there's no CGI - what you see is what you get. These were real explosions right in front of our faces, and you just had to make sure that you cleared out of the way. -- Thomas Howes
How wild it was, to let it be. -- Cheryl Strayed
How different it all was from what you'd planned. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was strange how easy being tired enough made it. -- Ernest Hemingway
It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends. -- Candace Bushnell
How easy it was to lie when one had to lie! -- Patricia Highsmith
You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted. -- J.R. Ward
I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked. -- Adam Yauch
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. -- Jim Harrison
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. -- John C. Hawkes
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. -- Paulo Coelho
It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go. -- Isaac Marion
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business. -- Andrew Mason
I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me. -- Julie Murphy
It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that. -- Julian Sands
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. -- Richard Russo
How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane. -- Maggie Shipstead
It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts. -- Dan Ariely
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is -- Plutarch
It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept. -- J. K. Rowling
How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence! -- Lauren Kate
Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me. -- Kami Garcia
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did. -- Byron Katie
It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary. -- Anna Kendrick
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren. -- Cate Blanchett
The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes. -- Martin Scorsese
I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment. -- Patrick Lussier
It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier. -- E. M. Forster
Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things. -- Mary Higgins Clark
How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives! -- Willa Cather
It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did. -- Lauren Miller
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them? -- Alain de Botton
Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. -- Walter Dean Myers

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