After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
‐‐ Vladimir Potanin
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
‐‐ Tina Turner
After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson
After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
‐‐ Brittany Snow
After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.
‐‐ Alicia Vikander
After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.
‐‐ Ron Ben-Israel
After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.
‐‐ Jason Schwartzman
After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'
‐‐ Angie Harmon
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.
‐‐ Robin Tunney
After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.
‐‐ Jodelle Ferland
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce
After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood
After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall
After I retired, it seemed to me that there was a whole new world out there, which was a digital world driven by a marketplace, basically, which had a huge potential driven by handheld devices, which would one day become the virtual retail store of India.
‐‐ Ratan Tata
After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.
‐‐ Peter Higgs
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
‐‐ Lloyd Alexander
After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
‐‐ Rick James
After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.
‐‐ Claire Forlani
After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.
‐‐ David Twohy
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
‐‐ Josh McDowell
After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over for five to seven minutes. But before I use a hair dryer, I'll towel-dry my hair. Actually, drying your hair with an old T-shirt is a great trick. It helps to get all the extra water out, without bringing on frizz.
‐‐ Tori Kelly
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
‐‐ Barry Eisler
After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
‐‐ Ada Yonath
After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.
‐‐ Julie Chen
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.
‐‐ Paul Henderson
After I stop competing, I'd like to do something that inspires people to get active and fit.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis-Hill
After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.
‐‐ Cobi Jones
After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi
After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.'
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky
After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
‐‐ Billy Boyd
After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?
‐‐ Doris Duke
After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
‐‐ Margaret Haddix
After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
‐‐ Yoko Ono
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
‐‐ Lara Logan
After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
‐‐ Chris Kyle
After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.
‐‐ Tommy Kirk
After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.
‐‐ Sharon Stone
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
‐‐ Oren Peli
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
‐‐ Pete Sampras
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal
After I won Miss India, I realised I do not like failing. I just like being the best. I hate being a loser. So I just have to keep winning.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
‐‐ E. L. Konigsburg
After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.
‐‐ Kim Yuna
After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!'
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
‐‐ Shirley Jones
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
‐‐ Marsha Norman
After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
‐‐ Dan Fogler
After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
‐‐ Henry Rollins