All Quotes

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.
‐‐ Megan Hilty

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.
‐‐ Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.
‐‐ David Nail

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
‐‐ Ilana Glazer

I decided I would never do interviews again.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'
‐‐ Robert Forster

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.
‐‐ Per Petterson

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
‐‐ Ornette Coleman

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.
‐‐ Prabal Gurung

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
‐‐ Greg Mortenson

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
‐‐ Tadanobu Asano

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
‐‐ Nanci Griffith

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
‐‐ Mortimer Zuckerman

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
‐‐ Henry Ossawa Tanner

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
‐‐ Lloyd Alexander

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
‐‐ Randall Jarrell

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
‐‐ Chick Corea

I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
‐‐ Larry MacPhail

I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
‐‐ Imani Hakim

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
‐‐ Maya Beiser

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
‐‐ Count Basie

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
‐‐ Cecily von Ziegesar

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
‐‐ Jasper Johns

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.
‐‐ Chester Gould

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
‐‐ Socrates

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
‐‐ George Bentham

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
‐‐ Barbara Lynn

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
‐‐ Renny Harlin

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.
‐‐ Benjamin Cohen

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
‐‐ Jim Henson

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
‐‐ Barry Sheene

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
‐‐ Patti LaBelle

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'
‐‐ Maria Grazia Cucinotta

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
‐‐ John Dyer

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
‐‐ Dustin Hoffman