All Quotes

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
‐‐ Elizabeth Berkley

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.
‐‐ Angel Cabrera

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
‐‐ Edward Burtynsky

I had to work with a psychiatrist.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.
‐‐ Richard Matheson

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
‐‐ Omar Sharif

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
‐‐ Gary Wright

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
‐‐ Nellie Bly

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
‐‐ Greil Marcus

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.
‐‐ Kate Moss

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
‐‐ Donald Fagen

I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans in me got even bigger. I wanted to get away from the pressure, even for a single day.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
‐‐ Tre Cool

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.
‐‐ Jimmy Connors

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.
‐‐ Rene Redzepi

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
‐‐ Francois Jacob

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.
‐‐ Christian Slater

I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted.
‐‐ Peter Falk

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
‐‐ Leslie Caron

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
‐‐ Hannah Simone

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
‐‐ Ben Barnes

I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't get any fights, and I was fighting once a year. I knocked out Norton and then didn't fight for 13 months. Then I fight the heavyweight champion of the world.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.
‐‐ Mike Weir

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
‐‐ Daniel Ek

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

I had two roles for which I compromised.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
‐‐ Suzanne Farrell

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.
‐‐ Lesley Manville

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
‐‐ Earl Campbell

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

I had very busy parents, but I really appreciated having a set of traditions during my own childhood, like consistently celebrating holidays at the same place.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
‐‐ John Crowley

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
‐‐ Maya Lin

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.
‐‐ Maude Adams

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.
‐‐ Kenneth Chenault