All Quotes

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
‐‐ Eddi Reader

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
‐‐ Alan W. Livingston

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
‐‐ Sergei Bubka

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan. Surprisingly, I was a whiz kid and soon learnt to edit films and became an expert at it.
‐‐ Ronit Roy

I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
‐‐ Paloma Picasso

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.
‐‐ Jean Alesi

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
‐‐ Lech Walesa

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
‐‐ Emily Mortimer

I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.
‐‐ James McAvoy

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.
‐‐ Bidzina Ivanishvili

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
‐‐ Jenna Bush

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
‐‐ Dayo Okeniyi

I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.
‐‐ Robert Mundell

I decided to grow my hair out during college, and it's kind of stuck ever since. Even when I thought about cutting it or trimming it, common sense kicks in, and I don't think the fans would recognize me; people wouldn't know who I am. It would almost be like Santa Claus losing his powers.
‐‐ Clay Matthews III

I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.
‐‐ Lesley Gore

I decided to host my show 'Kiss and Cry' hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure skating. When I see these people enjoying themselves, it's a great joy to me. Although some of them get hurt once in a while, they enjoy it a lot, and I hope the show makes the viewers want to give it a try.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.
‐‐ Bethany Mota

I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.
‐‐ John Caudwell

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.
‐‐ Donna Lynne Champlin

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
‐‐ Chris Evans

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.
‐‐ Katherine Schwarzenegger

I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it.
‐‐ Keke Palmer

I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.
‐‐ Susumu Tonegawa

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell and George Dunning, who animated and directed 'Yellow Submarine,' and they'd got their hands on the last scene, the triptychs. They just showed that part, without music and with the projectors misaligned.
‐‐ Kevin Brownlow

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
‐‐ Shirley Bassey

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.
‐‐ Andra Day

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
‐‐ Dan Phillips

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.
‐‐ Kimberly Elise

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'
‐‐ Roshon Fegan

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
‐‐ Clay Aiken

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.
‐‐ Fred Gwynne

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
‐‐ Luke Ford

I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story.
‐‐ Graeme Base

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.
‐‐ Eva Vertes

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
‐‐ Angela Davis

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.
‐‐ Jim Backus

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.
‐‐ Phoebe Philo

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
‐‐ Terry Bradshaw