All Quotes

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
‐‐ Elle Varner

As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
‐‐ Karen Hughes

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.
‐‐ Sania Mirza

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
‐‐ Anna Maxwell Martin

As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.
‐‐ Chely Wright

As a young kid, I had a great background. My grandfather was a minister; I have two uncles that were ministers, and so I had that spiritual background. I accepted Christ early as a kid.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

As a young man, I feel as if it's all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
‐‐ Nick Tosches

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.
‐‐ James E. Faust

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
‐‐ Om Puri

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
‐‐ Leonard Cohen

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
‐‐ Otto Dix

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

As a young musician, you really want to play.
‐‐ Susanna Phillips

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.
‐‐ Claire Danes

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
‐‐ John Williams

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

As a young politician, I voted against the return of Sinai and peace with Egypt. I was mistaken.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.
‐‐ Susanna Phillips

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
‐‐ Edmund White

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.
‐‐ Jennifer Haigh

As a young writer, I questioned the idea that I had to write fiction in a world where I could write my own ethnicity only and nothing else. 'Fach' to me was a little like that. As a biracial person, that's an inherently unstable identity.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'
‐‐ Liam McIntyre

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work.
‐‐ Shaun Tan

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
‐‐ Jason Giambi

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
‐‐ Lynn Davies

As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.
‐‐ Diplo