All Quotes

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.
‐‐ John Terry

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
‐‐ Randy Johnson

I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'
‐‐ Charlie Worsham

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
‐‐ Jack Dee

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.
‐‐ Jake Johnson

I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.
‐‐ Jeremy Sisto

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
‐‐ Steve Carell

I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

I had a lot of depression as a kid.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.
‐‐ Steffi Graf

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.
‐‐ Michael Moorer

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.
‐‐ Brendan Dooling

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
‐‐ Blake Lively

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.
‐‐ Louie Gohmert

I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn't date. They didn't ask me that much because I wasn't cute enough or because I didn't drink or party.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
‐‐ Carroll Shelby

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
‐‐ Ed Bradley

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.
‐‐ Derek Luke

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
‐‐ Allen Iverson

I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.
‐‐ Jud Wilhite

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the 'Evening Chronicle' in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences - I got to see how the world works.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
‐‐ Kim Novak

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
‐‐ J. Cole

I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.
‐‐ Angie Martinez

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.
‐‐ Rory Stewart

I had a lot of self-confidence.
‐‐ Bowie Kuhn

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.
‐‐ Johnny McDaid