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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

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen. — Dean Koontz

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

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little ... I think that's where the tie comes from. — Gary Allan

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

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time. — Daniel Craig

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised. — Ralph Stanley

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from. — Anne Lamott

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home. — Bob Dylan

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

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from. — Jasper Carrott

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be. — David Byrne

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all. — Albert Hofmann

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

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. — Reba McEntire

(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 was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience. — Kirstie Alley

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 want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture. — Eli Roth

I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from. — Cam Gigandet

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 lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. — Lana Del Rey

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'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip. — Drake Bell

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

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from. — Joe Namath

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 could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all. — Jacob Artist

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 was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like. — Molly Sims

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

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain. — Lee Grant

Shots came, I don't know where they was sent from. Probably some bad hoes I'm bouta take the hint from — Drake

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

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised. — Rita Ora

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

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in. — Emma Stone

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Stieg Larsson

I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from. — Marie Lu

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. — Marc Andreessen

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?) — Babe Ruth

I was lost. Lost in him. Lost in the moment. Lost in happiness. "Kade. Kade? Where the hell are you man?" a voice yelled from the outside area. — Cameo Renae

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

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless. — Matt Haig

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace. — Lenny Kravitz

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home. — Bob Dylan

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic. — Jason Mraz

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

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life. — Gloria Allred

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. — Wyclef Jean

But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet where an act of violence changed your life. — Alice Sebold

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

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

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company. — Michael Ian Black

I'd never walked on snow 'til I was 50, you know. There's no snow where I come from. — Paul Hogan

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes. — Aamir Khan

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from. — Jerry Orbach