#seemed

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #become #being #bring #condition

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose." ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#any #because #case #compensation #decided

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#disappear #i #just #like #literally

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made. ↗

— Benh Zeitlin

#films #horrifying #i #industry #kid

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#because #ghetto #good #i #important

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#age #both #characters #i #i tried

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily