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I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.
— Adrian Robinson
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
— Benedict Wong
From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.
— John Lennon
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
— Saint Augustine
I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from ... you heterosexuals.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I don't know how far it got, but it looked pretty flightworthy from where I was standing,
— Steve Merrick
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
— Jeffrey Donovan
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
— Willie Nelson
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
— Gabby Douglas
This was another fossil of a joke. I couldn't remember where it'd come from, I had a horrible feeling it might have been me.
— Alexis Hall
I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
— Jeff Mangum
Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I'd grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.
— Ralph Stanley
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
— Thomas Jefferson
I was twelve miles from no where.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
— Raymond Carver
I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.
— Bernard Hopkins
(I love that expression. "Swing a dead cat." Where the hell did it come from? Was swinging dead cats a thing at some point?)
— Leslie Irish Evans
If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
— Heather Matarazzo
I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.
— Paul Schneider
Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
— Sarah Dessen
New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
— Carol Moseley Braun
I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.
— Chelsie Shakespeare
Knowing where I came from didn't change who I was.
— Kiersten White
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
— David Mitchell
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
— Little Richard
I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.
— George Foreman
I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
— Paloma Faith
I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.
— Shola Lynch
Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.
— Robert Hayden
My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.
— Rirkrit Tiravanija
And from where I was sitting his ass looked like little Bear's bed ... not too hard, and not too soft, but just right.
— Janet Evanovich
It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.
— John Fowles
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
— Chaske Spencer
Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.
— Jessie Joe Parker
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
— Warren Zevon
There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
— Terry Teachout
It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
— V.S. Naipaul
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
— Miley Cyrus
No matter how worldly I became, there was always that one part of me that never forgot where I came from and how simple life was there.
— Carlos Wallace
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.
— Ian McKellen
After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?
— Bentley Little
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
— Richard Foreman
Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
— Jacinda Barrett
Where I came from, no one was a writer.
— Howard Gordon
When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.
— Gloria Gaither
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
— James Altucher
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
— Marc Andreessen
Yeah, uh-huh." "OK. Were you coming from a store or something when you saw him?" "Naw, I was like, coming from the benches." "And where was he?
— Richard Price
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
— Catherine Deneuve
Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
— Shania Twain
My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.
— Stephen Chbosky
I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and sculng looks good to me.
Sam — Aaron Sorkin
Sam — Aaron Sorkin
My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.
— Yukimi Nagano
As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?
— Nicholas Sparks
I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
— Antoine Fuqua
We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores." God, he was stuffy. "We call them manners where I come from, Ms. Lane. Have you any?
— Karen Marie Moning