All Quotes

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too.
‐‐ Billy Carter

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
‐‐ Brian May

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.
‐‐ Douglas Hodge

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.
‐‐ Jenna Fischer

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.
‐‐ Craig Thompson

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
‐‐ Diane Paulus

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
‐‐ Lesley Manville

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.
‐‐ Mark Strong

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
‐‐ David Christian

I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London - for greyhound racing - and at the other, my uncle was living in Downing Street. And I would actually go to Downing Street, which didn't strike me as funny. I'd get on the number 15 bus.
‐‐ Michael Moorcock

I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.
‐‐ Cassandra Peterson

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
‐‐ John Hewson

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
‐‐ Arto Lindsay

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
‐‐ Faith Ringgold

I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'
‐‐ Lauren Holmes

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.
‐‐ Suriya

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
‐‐ Deborah Cox

I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.
‐‐ Lamorne Morris

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
‐‐ Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.
‐‐ Brad Carson

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
‐‐ Patti Davis

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
‐‐ Cory Doctorow

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
‐‐ J. Tillman

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.
‐‐ Kim Raver

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
‐‐ Ellen Forney

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.
‐‐ Jane Campion

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
‐‐ Paul Anka

I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
‐‐ Carly Simon

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.
‐‐ Anthony Edwards

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.
‐‐ Alison Goldfrapp