All Quotes

I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hand

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
‐‐ Fernando Torres

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.
‐‐ Robert Atkins

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
‐‐ Dean O'Gorman

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
‐‐ Andrew Mason

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I didn't realize how many actresses have tons of extensions. Their hair is still pretty, but it blew my mind to find that out. I admire the girls who switch it up a lot like Rihanna. But I also love Gisele Bundchen because she found a style that works and never changes it.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.
‐‐ Adam Yauch

I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
‐‐ Andy Samberg

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.
‐‐ Jay Leno

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
‐‐ Les Claypool

I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
‐‐ Curtis Granderson

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
‐‐ Faith Hill

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.
‐‐ Heidi Montag

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I didn't realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair - a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I'll try to keep it a little long.
‐‐ Sidney Crosby

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
‐‐ Mark Shields

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.
‐‐ Chris Evans

I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.
‐‐ Tom Cochrane

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.
‐‐ Michael Mayer

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.
‐‐ Lucien Smith

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
‐‐ Sally Ride

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.
‐‐ John Foster

I didn't really distinguish between genre and not-genre as a kid, until I made the transition to adult fantasy via Terry Brooks.
‐‐ Marie Brennan

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

I didn't really enjoy school. I wouldn't say they were my golden years.
‐‐ Sophie Wu

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
‐‐ David Knopfler

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
‐‐ Jack White

I didn't really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.
‐‐ Simone Biles