All Quotes

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.
‐‐ Robert Evans

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.
‐‐ John Gilpin

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.
‐‐ Paul Greengard

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
‐‐ Rachael Leigh Cook

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.
‐‐ Kim Novak

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
‐‐ Bill Wyman

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.
‐‐ Darrell Royal

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.
‐‐ Misty May-Treanor

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted to take the major characters and show what they could be like if they were put on a different path.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.
‐‐ Kim Weston

I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
‐‐ Edmund White

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
‐‐ David Liss

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
‐‐ Grace Slick

I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.
‐‐ Phil Klay

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
‐‐ Leonard Cohen

I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show', why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then?
‐‐ Brian Posehn

I didn't want to write travelogues.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.
‐‐ Missy Peregrym

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
‐‐ Alan Shearer

I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
‐‐ David Lynch

I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
‐‐ Ira Glass

I didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.
‐‐ Story Musgrave

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
‐‐ Yukihiro Matsumoto

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.
‐‐ Marg Helgenberger

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
‐‐ Tina Turner

I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.
‐‐ Sissy Spacek

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
‐‐ Linda Tripp

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
‐‐ Grace Paley