All Quotes

I had some struggles to find my footing. I couldn't really find a place to appreciate me - I'm a little bit curvy for the dance world.
‐‐ Sarah Hay

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
‐‐ Merle Haggard

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
‐‐ Richard Engel

I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
‐‐ John Henry Carver

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
‐‐ Judy Collins

I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.
‐‐ LeAnn Rimes

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.
‐‐ Timothy Griffin

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

I had someone describe my work as so - '227' - and I thought about that TV show, and I thought about those women on that TV show, and I said, 'Yes, it is '227.'' That show depicted real women, everyday women. If that's the case, my work is very '227.'
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas

I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
‐‐ James Lipton

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
‐‐ Faith Ringgold

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.
‐‐ Billy Porter

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
‐‐ Chad Smith

I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
‐‐ Sarah Wright

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
‐‐ Karen Abbott

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
‐‐ Chi McBride

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
‐‐ Nina Simone

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
‐‐ Nancy Marchand

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
‐‐ Sara Rue

I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.
‐‐ Brian Kernighan

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
‐‐ Neil Peart

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
‐‐ Desi Arnaz

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
‐‐ Michael Rady

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.
‐‐ Star Jones

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.
‐‐ John Newcombe

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
‐‐ Leslie Charteris

I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
‐‐ Sadaharu Oh

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
‐‐ Edgar Mitchell

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
‐‐ Kevin Kline

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.
‐‐ Scott Shane