I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
‐‐ Philip Dunne
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
‐‐ John Garfield
I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.
‐‐ Russell Freedman
I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.
‐‐ Philip Schultz
I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em.
‐‐ Tom Watson
I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer
I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.
‐‐ Donald Davis
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.
‐‐ Roger Moore
I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.
‐‐ Phyllis A. Whitney
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
‐‐ Patricia Polacco
I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
‐‐ Matthew Fox
I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
‐‐ Jill Scott
I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.
‐‐ Sharad Pawar
I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee
I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.
‐‐ Lulu
I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard
I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor
I didn't like being in a newsroom all the time.
‐‐ Cheri Bustos
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.
‐‐ Daniel Handler
I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
‐‐ Natalie Wood
I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
‐‐ Jane Campion
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried
I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.
‐‐ Michael Winter
I didn't like horses when I was a kid.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill
I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.
‐‐ Tim Hardaway
I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.
‐‐ Mick Ralphs
I didn't like mundane life.
‐‐ Jeanne Calment
I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
‐‐ Zendaya
I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.
‐‐ Eleanor Mondale
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.
‐‐ Charlie McDermott
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
‐‐ Ray Liotta
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
‐‐ Mark Vonnegut
I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
‐‐ Valentino Garavani
I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.
‐‐ Rollie Fingers
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt
I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.
‐‐ Janet Reno
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis
I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
‐‐ Laetitia Casta
I didn't like the name 'personal shopper.' That makes it sound like too much of a commodity and not personal enough.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
‐‐ Andrew Denton
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
‐‐ Groucho Marx
I didn't like the 'Survivor' shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.
‐‐ Sharon Lawrence
I didn't like the way a wet cotton T-shirt felt under my equipment. There had to be something better.
‐‐ Kevin Plank
I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
‐‐ Dave Mustaine
I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.
‐‐ Sara Blakely
I didn't like the way the game was being played.
‐‐ Mario Lemieux