All Quotes

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.
‐‐ Jane Green

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.
‐‐ Frank Whittle

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
‐‐ Jane Rule

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it's my background. But when I think about 'Fresh Meat,' I just think about the cast and the crew that we had... we just had a great time.
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.
‐‐ Enrico Caruso

I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
‐‐ Dan Phillips

I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
‐‐ Matt Cartwright

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.
‐‐ Anthony Mann

I had always thought my fantasy career would be making indie films and doing my own thing. But then 'Superbad' came along, and it totally changed everything. It was so hilarious and smart and extreme; you could probably do a psychoanalysis term paper on the male sexual psyche going on there.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
‐‐ Andrew Solomon

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!
‐‐ Julian Lennon

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
‐‐ Charles Soule

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
‐‐ John Perry Barlow

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family.
‐‐ Shahid Kapoor

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
‐‐ Rachel Dratch

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.
‐‐ Jodie Sweetin

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.
‐‐ Roger Bannister

I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
‐‐ Charlotte Ronson

I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.
‐‐ Odette Annable

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.
‐‐ Chris Adrian

I had always wanted to see the world, and the PGA Tour was always going to be there.
‐‐ Peter Uihlein

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
‐‐ Mac Davis

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.
‐‐ Chris Abani

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
‐‐ Dana Fox

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.
‐‐ Dannii Minogue

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
‐‐ Aaron Tveit

I had an addiction to play baseball.
‐‐ Pete Rose

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.
‐‐ Big Sean

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.
‐‐ Robert Kurson

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
‐‐ Frank Press

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
‐‐ Patrick Fugit

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
‐‐ Bebe Moore Campbell

I had an album out at exactly the same time as 'Love to Love You' called 'Einzelganger,' and it's great, all electronic. I'm using a vocoder, doing all this cut-up stuff on there, but no one knows about it.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
‐‐ Christie Hefner