All Quotes

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.
‐‐ Tina Yothers

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.
‐‐ Nicky Hilton

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
‐‐ Bryan Adams

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.
‐‐ Matt Smith

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
‐‐ Eugene Jarvis

I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
‐‐ Al Franken

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
‐‐ Robert Hass

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.
‐‐ Michael Hirst

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.
‐‐ Matthew Lillard

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I got into a conversation with EMI, and they said they were very interested in releasing the song because it was such a huge hit online. RCA and Universal were also very interested, but EMI were the best team, so I decided to sign with them. I got my deal because 'Silly Boy' leaked, so obviously now I'm very happy about what happened!
‐‐ Eva Simons

I got into a fight with a kid in junior high, and then we became friends after that.
‐‐ Armie Hammer

I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.
‐‐ Frank Tashlin

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
‐‐ Jon Hamm

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.
‐‐ Kathrine Narducci

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.
‐‐ Ashley Bell

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.
‐‐ Rob James-Collier

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
‐‐ Miles Teller

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.
‐‐ Logan Lerman

I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' books.
‐‐ Carrie Vaughn

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
‐‐ Kiki Smith

I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.
‐‐ Steve-O

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.
‐‐ Artie Lange

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for 'Rainbow In The Dark' on MTV. That was my first taste of Dio. It wasn't until years later that I realized he had this whole career with Rainbow and Black Sabbath and even going back to Elf. When I saw that video, it instantly became one of my favorite songs.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
‐‐ Abbie Cornish

I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.
‐‐ Bill Laswell

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.
‐‐ Johnny Weir

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
‐‐ Guy Ritchie

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
‐‐ Ira Sachs

I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.
‐‐ Lloyd Blankfein

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?
‐‐ Josh Homme

I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.
‐‐ Estelle

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
‐‐ Armin van Buuren