All Quotes

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they're lively. They don't stick around because they're boring. If they're boring, they go away.
‐‐ Aimee Bender

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
‐‐ Tom Petty

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
‐‐ Hal Holbrook

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.
‐‐ Shani Davis

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.
‐‐ Jane Levy

I developed acne when I was about 19, at the beginning of my modeling career. I didn't have the huge cystic-type of acne, but a lot of little bumps all over my face. They were small, but you could see them in photographs. You can't have acned skin and work as a model.
‐‐ Jennifer Flavin

I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
‐‐ Edith Widder

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
‐‐ B. B. King

I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
‐‐ Edith Widder

I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.
‐‐ Steve Breen

I developed my own production company. I'm reading different books and writing, working on myself. I'm being focused on that, but also being focused on in front of the camera and balancing mommy life at the same time. I just want to continue to move forward.
‐‐ Kyla Pratt

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.
‐‐ John Hunter

I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
‐‐ Dana Goodyear

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
‐‐ Andy Hertzfeld

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
‐‐ Danny DeVito

I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash

I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
‐‐ Patrick White

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.
‐‐ Robin Leach

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.
‐‐ Don McLean

I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
‐‐ J. R. Celski

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
‐‐ Baltasar Kormakur

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
‐‐ Foxy Brown

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
‐‐ Alison Tyler

I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.
‐‐ Virginia Henley

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
‐‐ Elmer Bernstein

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.
‐‐ Denis Leary

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
‐‐ Brion James

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.
‐‐ Montel Williams

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.
‐‐ Jerry Robinson

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
‐‐ Maggie Cheung

I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.
‐‐ Rupert Penry-Jones

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
‐‐ Marie Osmond

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
‐‐ Alice Barrett

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
‐‐ Ron Ben-Israel

I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.
‐‐ David Anders

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!
‐‐ Shantel VanSanten

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.
‐‐ Logan Lerman

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
‐‐ Parker Stevenson