All Quotes

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
‐‐ Steve Case

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn't at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?
‐‐ Lesley Gore

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
‐‐ Jason Aldean

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
‐‐ Bobby Bonilla

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
‐‐ Yael Naim

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
‐‐ Sally Kirkland

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
‐‐ Huston Smith

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
‐‐ Thom Gunn

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.
‐‐ Don McLean

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
‐‐ Nathan Parsons

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.
‐‐ Bob Lemon

I had bad skin as a teenager, and I spent all my money on facials and laser treatments and creams and cleansers and serums and all that. I wake up in the morning, and I'll cleanse with Cetaphil or a rose milk cleanser from Whole Foods. Then I use serum called DNA repair serum, and it's made by Raj Kanodia.
‐‐ Sara Foster

I had bags of energy as a kid.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the '80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, 'Look, you're just not marketable enough with the weight problem.'
‐‐ Jennifer Holliday

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.
‐‐ Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.
‐‐ Bryan Ferry

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.
‐‐ Curly Howard

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
‐‐ Paul Verhoeven

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
‐‐ Gerard Debreu

I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
‐‐ James D. Watson

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
‐‐ Selma Lagerlof

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
‐‐ Lea Thompson

I had been a basketball fan growing up, and I felt that if we brought in the proper coach, and we played basketball the old fashioned way - where defense is paramount and offense involved movement off the ball and movement of the ball - we could build a winning team, and Chicago would respond to that.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
‐‐ Krista Tippett

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.
‐‐ Graham Moore

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
‐‐ Larry Brilliant

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
‐‐ John Irving

I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
‐‐ Ryan Murphy

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out.
‐‐ Seth Green

I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.
‐‐ Jacqueline Nguyen

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
‐‐ Madison Smartt Bell

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
‐‐ Jean Shepherd