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When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

I love to give the fans what they want. They're what I miss most when I'm not wrestling. That time in the ring is like being in heaven for me.

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.