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When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

— Reba McEntire

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

— Dionne Warwick

I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.

— David Souter

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

— Daniel Boone

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

— Amy Grant

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.

— Christian Kane

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

— James Garner

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

— William Shatner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

— Ricky Skaggs

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

— Mike Epps

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

— Isabel Gillies