All Quotes

I used to carbo load. But then I ran my first marathon, actually on a whim. All I could think of was that I needed protein. I remember going to the grocery store and buying one of those roasted chickens. I remember downing a bunch of that and, yes, I had some carbs, but that's what I felt I needed.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

I used to care more about the score than I do now.
‐‐ Darrell Royal

I used to carry a bag of records down to my friend's house every Friday, and we'd sit down and play all the records I loved, and we'd look at the album covers.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
‐‐ John C. Hawkes

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
‐‐ Cy Twombly

I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers. I was a great tumbler, so when he showed up at practice one day, I tried to impress him, but I ended up landing on my face! When I got off the ground, I had rug burn on my nose. I was in tears because it hurt so bad!
‐‐ Josie Loren

I used to chop up C-Span soundbites or interviews with politicians like John Kerry or Bill Clinton into a radio-esque show hosted by Awkwafina and her producer, Mookie. I would pitch down my vocals to have male guests and would send them to a small circle of friends after they were done.
‐‐ Awkwafina

I used to clean my brother and sister's rooms. And I would go to friends' houses and clean their rooms, too.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.
‐‐ Greg Mortenson

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'
‐‐ Benny Blanco

I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
‐‐ Robin Zander

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
‐‐ Steve Nash

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
‐‐ Ben Whishaw

I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff.
‐‐ Shane West

I used to come down from New Rochelle and go to Radio City. They'd have a floor show and a movie. I'm showing my age, but I saw 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'Broken Arrow' with Jimmy Stewart. It was a great way for a kid to see a movie.
‐‐ Vincent Pastore

I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
‐‐ Lara Stone

I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
‐‐ Franz Wright

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
‐‐ Ronnie Spector

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I used to dance around the house and taught myself the 'Annie' soundtrack. I got into singing and fell in love with it.
‐‐ Alexis Dziena

I used to dance, but now I only move.
‐‐ Ben Vereen

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
‐‐ Nastassja Kinski

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end, we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.
‐‐ Kayla Ewell

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow

I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'
‐‐ Jack Canfield

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
‐‐ Betsey Johnson

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
‐‐ John Cleese

I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians.
‐‐ Sebastian Maniscalco

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.
‐‐ Emma Forrest

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.
‐‐ Richard Mourdock

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
‐‐ Peter Matthiessen

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.
‐‐ Brian Cox

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
‐‐ George Strait

I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.
‐‐ Ajay Mehta

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
‐‐ Kapil Sharma

I used to do a lot of yoga, but I tend to lose a lot of weight when I do that.
‐‐ Colton Haynes

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.
‐‐ Bel Powley

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
‐‐ Vince Clarke

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.
‐‐ Rita Ora