All Quotes

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.
‐‐ Trent Dilfer

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
‐‐ Norah Jones

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.
‐‐ Jonathan Demme

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
‐‐ Leah Ward Sears

I had visited Congressman Deal before, but I never thought I'd be sitting on the other side of the desk.
‐‐ Tom Graves

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
‐‐ Mickey Sumner

I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epitome of male sexuality. That was something I worked for.
‐‐ Mehcad Brooks

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.
‐‐ Katy B

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.
‐‐ Dustin Clare

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.
‐‐ Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life.
‐‐ Robert Crais

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.
‐‐ Susan Olsen

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

I had wanted to do a comedy.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
‐‐ Edith Widder

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.
‐‐ Jack Irons

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.
‐‐ Ken Bruen

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
‐‐ Evita Peron

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
‐‐ Sasha Cohen

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox

I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
‐‐ Bob Iger

I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.
‐‐ Roger Morris

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
‐‐ Clark Gregg

I had worked in TV prior to working on 'Game of Thrones' - 'Game of Thrones' is far more cinematic than any other television show that I had done before, and so I feel that the worlds of TV and film are most definitely merging as one.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
‐‐ Demi Moore

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.
‐‐ Joe Murray

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
‐‐ Tobe Hooper

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.
‐‐ Akhil Sharma

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
‐‐ Jenny Offill

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
‐‐ Jesse Stone

I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.
‐‐ Anthony Jeselnik

I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
‐‐ Kelly Masterson

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
‐‐ Sammy Hagar

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.
‐‐ Keith Emerson

I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
‐‐ Sally Mann

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
‐‐ James Gray

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.
‐‐ Jenny Nimmo

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
‐‐ Margaret Whiting