It made me a little wistful as I thought back to my own days in marketing.
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Her words rang true with me and I thought back on the past few years of my working life.
But the reason I told folks that I did it was because I thought back to my own life.
By way of example, I thought back to my experience with the Sony Walkman (yes, I am that old).
Then I thought back to the worst thing that ever happened to me: my mom dying at age 48 of breast cancer.
But when I awoke, to see the puppet von Trapp children gathered on puppet Maria's puppet bed, I thought back to what the theatre's managing director had said, backstage, in amongst the delicately carved and painted marionettes.
"You walk in the first sports bar down there, and I thought I was back in Big Ten territory, " McAloose said.
As I was looking at different opportunities I really thought back to my experiences I had when (Kleiner partner) John (Doerr) was on the board at Google and (Kleiner partner) Mary (Meeker) was on the board at Square.
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When I entered the world of federal procurement after years in the commercial sector, I thought I had to step back and understand new rules of a new game.
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"I started to pull back because I thought he wasn't happy with me, " she says.
However, the fourth time I managed to escape and I started to see the conditions in which people were living and I thought I have got to get back here.
"I never thought I would be allowed to come back and see where Spitfires have been buried, " he said.
"I thought maybe we were too far back, but I knew (the leaders) were cooking and when he punched the button I knew we were going to be a factor, " McGaughey said.
It gives me a massive kick that I am still thought good enough to come back and play at international level, but I've gone too far down the line in battling my stress problems to change my mind about now ending my England career.
"I'm a bit further back than I'd have thought, " said the man from Worksop.
Coming back, I thought about my aunts and all the things that had never been spoken.
And when she said that to me years back, I thought she was crazy.
But back then I thought "believers" were people who knew exactly what they believed, and had nailed all the answers.
Back then I thought she was the harder parent of the two and had had high hopes for me, so the disappointment weighed on her more heavily.
And I'm going to tell them that in my own life, 35 years after graduating from my high school class, I moved back to my hometown, which I never thought I would do, and I married that kid.
"I thought they were outstanding in the back row - they were a yard ahead of the piece, " Rea said.
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"It's brilliant to go back, I never thought I would, " Bolland added.
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As delightful as his telling of the story was back then, I thought of it again last week, in a much more serious context.
The author said that initially she had not envisioned a trilogy because "I thought the difficulties of carrying the back story into a third novel would be too great".
In the back of my mind I thought, you know, it's going to be tough for them to survive.
' And then I saw Jimmie coming and I blocked him and I thought, 'Who is that back there?
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