All Quotes

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.
‐‐ Linda Cardellini

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.
‐‐ Gwynne Shotwell

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

After I get comfortable, I kind of forget that we're even doing an interview and I say whatever comes to the mind.
‐‐ John Corbett

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

After I got my law degree and business degree, I went to work for my family, and I spent two years at Hyatt doing a training program. I was really interested in real estate - one reason was that nobody in my family was doing that. I was looking for a place where I could be successful doing something that was my own.
‐‐ Penny Pritzker

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.
‐‐ Lena Horne

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
‐‐ Marshall Herskovitz

After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.
‐‐ Roman Romanenko

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.
‐‐ Don Rickles

After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking more luxury brands.
‐‐ Godfrey Gao

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.
‐‐ Rose Schneiderman

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
‐‐ John Woolman

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
‐‐ Henry L. Stimson

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.
‐‐ Tori Spelling

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.
‐‐ Denise Van Outen

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
‐‐ Bill Nye

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
‐‐ Mickey Mantle

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.
‐‐ Joe Namath

After I impulsively revealed that I have OCD on a talk show, I was devastated. I often do things without thinking. That's my ADD/ADHD talking. Out in public, after I did the show, people came to me and said, 'Me, too.' They were the most comforting words I've ever heard.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.
‐‐ Akio Toyoda

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
‐‐ Zhang Ziyi

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.
‐‐ Joshua Ferris

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
‐‐ Chris Rock

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.
‐‐ Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, 'Masquerade,' where I played a rabbit. I was the lead.
‐‐ Roger Rees

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'
‐‐ Mary Pierce

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
‐‐ Yvonne De Carlo