All Quotes

I talked to lots of people who are vaccine-hesitant, and I actually was one myself until I got further into this project, and most of them actually are in my demographic: so well-educated people with advanced degrees who are upper middle-class and have read quite a bit on the subject.
‐‐ Eula Biss

I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.
‐‐ Louis Leterrier

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.
‐‐ Austin Stowell

I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hackers are so sophisticated that they changed procedures.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
‐‐ John Wooden

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
‐‐ Etta James

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
‐‐ Ellen Burstyn

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
‐‐ Estelle Parsons

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
‐‐ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I tan very easily. I always wear SPF50+ sun cream; however, I still go very dark brown.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

I tap dance.
‐‐ Jamie Bell

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.
‐‐ Sid Gillman

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.
‐‐ Phil Lynott

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
‐‐ Ad Reinhardt

I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
‐‐ Christopher Gorham

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
‐‐ Michael Graves

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
‐‐ Candace Camp

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.
‐‐ John Krasinski

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
‐‐ Mark Takano

I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.
‐‐ Allen West

I taught high school students Spanish.
‐‐ Daniela Bobadilla

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
‐‐ David Eddings

I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.
‐‐ Denis McDonough

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
‐‐ Errol Morris

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.
‐‐ Jeff Dunham

I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
‐‐ Minnie Driver

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
‐‐ Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
‐‐ Richie Sambora

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
‐‐ Jules Shear

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
‐‐ Pinetop Perkins

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.
‐‐ Jerry Hunt