All Quotes

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.
‐‐ Dr. Dre

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.
‐‐ Edward Grey

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.
‐‐ Donna Rice

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
‐‐ Daniel Boone

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.
‐‐ Hugh Bonneville

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister

I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
‐‐ J. D. Souther

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.
‐‐ Gucci Mane

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
‐‐ Vincente Minnelli

I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
‐‐ Jennifer Sky

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.
‐‐ April Winchell

I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.
‐‐ Sarah Paulson

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.
‐‐ Frank Serpico

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.
‐‐ Matty Mullins

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And nursing didn't feel quite right, and an old boyfriend gave me a 35-millimeter camera just to play with. So, I took a darkroom class.
‐‐ Carol Guzy

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

I had gone to school to study marine biology.
‐‐ Skeet Ulrich

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
‐‐ Jason Alexander

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.
‐‐ Glenne Headly

I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I had good legs, and I loved showing them off.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
‐‐ Zach Johnson

I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.
‐‐ Mark McGwire

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
‐‐ Bailey Chase

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
‐‐ Brian Friel

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.
‐‐ Dilma Rousseff

I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat.
‐‐ Bill Terry

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
‐‐ Ian Doescher

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.
‐‐ Joe Gibbs

I had great friends, support and teaching at Wake Forest.
‐‐ Tim Duncan

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.
‐‐ Peter Berg

I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
‐‐ Eric Lindros

I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.
‐‐ Andy Murray

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber