I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.
Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted as a child and as a young man. I realized it maybe 30 years ago. I thought, "This is unreal. This has happened as I expected it to, as I'd pictured it. " My whole life has been like that and I'm fascinated by that power that we all have. That we create our lives as we go.
What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you.
There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
I love Country Music but what happened to it?
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
. . . and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.
Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?
You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
I am not a pacifist, however I do believe that the U. S. tends to resort to force too quickly. I am not referring only to the current administration; the same thing happened in the Balkans, and on other occasions.
I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: ‘I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor. ’ Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it, nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.
I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.