Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.
I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a monster or anything abnormal, because I always had a lot of different interests. But kids tend to focus on one thing, and for me it was violin.
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.
I never thought about branding when we were starting our production company.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
I'm not perfect; I've never professed to be, and I don't want to be. How much fun is that?
I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
