I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt
I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes
I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.
‐‐ John Tavener
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
‐‐ Ken Kesey
I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.
‐‐ Bill Burr
I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.
‐‐ Louise Nurding
I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk
I used to throw on soundtracks, and orchestral stuff would be the only thing I could write to, maybe 'Dead Can Dance' or 'Cocteau Twins' or something. Mostly, it was movies scores that would kind of inspire me.
‐‐ Christopher McCulloch
I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller - it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.
‐‐ Kenny Baker
I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
‐‐ Michael Pena
I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
‐‐ Nathan Fielder
I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don't want to kill him before his next flight!
‐‐ Catherine Ndereba
I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
‐‐ Greg LeMond
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
‐‐ Amy Irving
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
‐‐ Maggie Grace
I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.
‐‐ Antony Starr
I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.
‐‐ Pete Townshend
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
‐‐ Nick Carter
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
‐‐ Odette Annable
I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
‐‐ Peter Steele
I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.
‐‐ Matt Kuchar
I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.
‐‐ Evan Williams
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone
I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'
‐‐ Curt Schilling
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
‐‐ Rachel Platten
I used to vote Democrat.
‐‐ Herman Cain
I used to wait in line for Jordans. That's how much of a freak I was.
‐‐ Rita Ora
I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw
I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.
‐‐ Ben Silbermann
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
‐‐ James Thurber
I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.
‐‐ Steven Adler
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
‐‐ Jayson Blair
I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.' I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith
I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.
‐‐ Mark Rutte
I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
‐‐ James McBride
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
‐‐ Jeremy Collier
I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
‐‐ Nancy Werlin
I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
‐‐ Katherine Dunham
I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
‐‐ Jena Malone
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
‐‐ Max Walker
I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr
I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.
‐‐ Tommy Davidson
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.
‐‐ Cat Power
I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
‐‐ Olivia Colman
I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.
‐‐ Kristin Chenoweth
I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.
‐‐ Debbie Gibson