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• I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn’t audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

  Teresa Palmer

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• You go from high school, to the NBA, and you’re thrown in the fire.

  Dwight Howard

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• An object imbued with intent – it has power, it’s treasure, we’re drawn to it. An object devoid of intent – it’s random, it’s imitative, it repels us. It’s like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

  John Hockenberry

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• I was thrown into a community production of ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn’t allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

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• I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

  Peer Steinbrück

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• Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

  Valerie Simpson

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  A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.

  David Brinkley

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• When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who… owns NYC practically. That’s a mogul. I feel like I’m on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it’s a word that gets thrown around easily.

  Tyra Banks

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• How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

  Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

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• Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme – it’s taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn’t mean or anything.

  Ashley Scott

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• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  H. L. Mencken

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• I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

  Steve Ballmer

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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

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• I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.

  Casey Stengel

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• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  Uma Thurman

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• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  Don Young

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• Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse.

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