All Quotes

I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.
‐‐ Trevor Rabin

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.
‐‐ Ellen Hopkins

I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that's how 'Bird Box' got to where it is now.
‐‐ Josh Malerman

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova

I never allow myself to be pressured.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
‐‐ Robert Smith

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.
‐‐ Richard Shelby

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.
‐‐ Vincent Gallo

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

I never approach a character from a negative place.
‐‐ Nina Arianda

I never argue with people about movies.
‐‐ Andrew Sarris

I never argued against the position of the Chief Rabbinate on holy sites, including the Western Wall.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.
‐‐ Katie Price

I never ask boys' opinions on clothes, ever. I really think, unless you think the guy has style, don't ask. So I only ask my girl friends. I don't trust guys' opinions on style!
‐‐ Emma Roberts

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
‐‐ Conrad Black

I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.
‐‐ Robert Sheehan

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
‐‐ John Bercow

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
‐‐ David O. Selznick

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
‐‐ Peter Carey

I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
‐‐ Diplo

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
‐‐ Erica Jong

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
‐‐ Raekwon

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
‐‐ Samantha Bee

I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
‐‐ Carol Berg

I never believed I'd have a six-pack, especially not at 35 years old. I always thought it was a genetic blessing. It's not. You just have to be willing to do what it takes.
‐‐ Sullivan Stapleton

I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.
‐‐ Amanda Holden

I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
‐‐ Tom Paulin

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.
‐‐ Mike Ross

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
‐‐ Ben Bradlee

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
‐‐ Jim Gilmore