All Quotes

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
‐‐ Carl Wilson

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
‐‐ Lara St. John

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
‐‐ Leo Kottke

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.
‐‐ Tom Ellis

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.
‐‐ Francine Rivers

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
‐‐ Steve Cropper

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
‐‐ Mike McCue

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
‐‐ Donald McCaig

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
‐‐ Brenda Lee

I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
‐‐ Dave Bautista

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
‐‐ An Na

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.
‐‐ Rila Fukushima

I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

I had been teaching myself photography.
‐‐ Ree Drummond

I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.
‐‐ Michael Masser

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.
‐‐ Justin Long

I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
‐‐ Jade Jones

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

I had been, to the age of 25, a bookworm.
‐‐ Sante D'Orazio

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.
‐‐ Genevieve Gorder

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
‐‐ Bill Dana

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
‐‐ Patty Duke

I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.
‐‐ Marnie Stern

I had been wanting to work out with a trainer for a very long time. I always had a good cardio regimen, but I didn't know how to tone up or use weights properly - and I wasn't sure where to start.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
‐‐ Paul Engle

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
‐‐ Charisma Carpenter

I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so fast-paced, and at first it was overwhelming, but at the same time was quite laid back.
‐‐ Indiana Evans

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.
‐‐ Tom Felton

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
‐‐ Fay Godwin

I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.
‐‐ Box Brown

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
‐‐ Thomas Perry

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
‐‐ David McCullough

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.
‐‐ Jill Davis

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

I had been writing professionally since 1988.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
‐‐ Natalia Kills

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.
‐‐ Patty Hearst