I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
‐‐ Robert Smith
I had every stress-related illness you can get.
‐‐ Richard Ben Cramer
I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres
I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.
‐‐ Lawrence Taylor
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
‐‐ Joseph Heller
I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.
‐‐ Hannah Kent
I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
‐‐ Aaron Diehl
I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.
‐‐ Loretta Napoleoni
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
‐‐ Harry S Truman
I had fallen in love with California.
‐‐ DeForest Kelley
I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.
‐‐ Alona Tal
I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'
‐‐ Bill Medley
I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
‐‐ Norman Reedus
I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
‐‐ Rosa Parks
I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
‐‐ Chaz Bono
I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.
‐‐ Susan Beth Pfeffer
I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
‐‐ Alexander Chee
I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.
‐‐ Graham Moore
I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.
‐‐ Al Jarreau
I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi
I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.
‐‐ David Charvet
I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.
‐‐ Stephen Amell
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
‐‐ James Rothman
I had flops, I had success.
‐‐ Agnes Varda
I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.
‐‐ Susan Orlean
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
‐‐ C. L. R. James
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
‐‐ Ernst Mayr
I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
‐‐ James W. Black
I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.
‐‐ Robert Forster
I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
‐‐ Chris Gibson
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw
I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
‐‐ Jo Stafford
I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don't suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh
I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!
‐‐ Tom Brokaw
I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
‐‐ Emily Mortimer
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
‐‐ Kate Bush
I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren't isolated, and I've always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals.
‐‐ Christopher Paolini
I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
‐‐ Arto Lindsay
I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.
‐‐ Josh Lucas
I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'
‐‐ Sarah Roemer
I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.
‐‐ Jason Giambi
I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub