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I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.
The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.
I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.
In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic.
I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.
It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.
I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad ever went through.
At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as a prologue.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.
It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.
Throughout my first year in office, some of my most informative conversations have occurred at public, community-focused events like our town halls.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
Both cyber and old-fashioned human-intelligence industrial espionage has occurred for decades without any significant retribution by the United States.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.