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It never occurred to me to be an actor.

It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

My big break occurred when I was six years old and met Scott Moir.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

It never occurred to me that one could just buy tickets to the Tonys. I figured you had to be invited.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

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