I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.
‐‐ John Niven
I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.
‐‐ Richard Donner
I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.
‐‐ Steve Harvey
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.
‐‐ Steve Carell
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
‐‐ Jay McShann
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
‐‐ Robert Wagner
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
‐‐ Jack Gilbert
I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.
‐‐ John Foster
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon
I had loans in law school.
‐‐ Ken Starr
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'
‐‐ Rory Kennedy
I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
‐‐ Imran Amed
I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.
‐‐ Fred Kavli
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
‐‐ Nellie Bly
I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma
I had lost faith in biography.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson
I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor
I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.
‐‐ Nicole Richie
I had lots of breaks.
‐‐ Reba McEntire
I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.
‐‐ Reba McEntire
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.
‐‐ Richard Rogers
I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash
I had low self-esteem.
‐‐ Jennifer O'Neill
I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.
‐‐ Kim Mathers
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
‐‐ Sam Abell
I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.
‐‐ John Engler
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell
I had made my reputation on integrity.
‐‐ Edward Brooke
I had Madonna parties; I dressed like Madonna, and I had all of her records because we had records back then. I knew all of her lyrics; I was obsessed with her movies and the whole thing.
‐‐ Judy Greer
I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.
‐‐ Edward Brooke
I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.
‐‐ Chris Lowell
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
‐‐ Markus Zusak
I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.
‐‐ Julie Bowen
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
‐‐ David Grann
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila
I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.
‐‐ Michael Leunig
I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
‐‐ Eric Kandel
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
‐‐ Bear Grylls
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.
‐‐ Kevin James
I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.
‐‐ Emma Stone
I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker
I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
‐‐ Roger Daltrey
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
‐‐ Adolph Green
I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.
‐‐ Rob Lowe