#knew

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#alternative #always #been #dancing #got

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. ↗

— Terri Windling

#bit #business #called #fantasy #fiction

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#deprived #early #early age #ghetto #girl

I always knew I was destined for greatness. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#destined #greatness #i #i always #knew

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#chicago #city #day #down #first

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#been #experience #had #high #high school

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#because #comes #ever #glamorous #hard

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #know #know thyself #myself

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#because #double #fat #feel #girl

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#according #away #core #core values #could