All Quotes

For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
‐‐ Taylor Negron

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
‐‐ Bill Bradley

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn't being unique. Even now, I won't wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those - they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I'm real funny that way.
‐‐ Elle Fanning

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.
‐‐ Michael Learned

For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
‐‐ Oliver Jackson-Cohen

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
‐‐ Judy Greer

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.
‐‐ Kelly McGillis

For a long time, I thought I'd be a physio if I wasn't a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I'd come up with little schemes.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
‐‐ Ian Hislop

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
‐‐ Philip Pullman

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
‐‐ Alice Walker

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.
‐‐ Jillian Hervey

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
‐‐ Bob Seger

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.
‐‐ Bo Derek

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
‐‐ Craig McCracken

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Raymond Carver

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
‐‐ Laura Schlessinger

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.
‐‐ Marv Levy

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.
‐‐ Chris Raschka

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
‐‐ Lily Rabe

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
‐‐ Iris Dement

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.
‐‐ Teddy Thompson

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
‐‐ John Updike

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
‐‐ John Hodgman

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
‐‐ Fred Thompson

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
‐‐ Ferdinand Buisson

For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
‐‐ Laurent Fabius

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
‐‐ Eric Bogosian

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman