All Quotes

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.
‐‐ Tika Sumpter

I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
‐‐ Halsey

I used to work at a puppy nursery.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
‐‐ Randall Munroe

I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.
‐‐ Jorge Garcia

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
‐‐ Richard Powers

I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
‐‐ Karla Souza

I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
‐‐ John Legend

I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

I used to work for a non-profit organization where I worked as a mentor and a counselor to first-generation college student and they kept asking me 'What can I read to try to know what I'm about to be in for,' and while I did have some good suggestions, I figured... I don't know that that book is out there, and that's sort of why I had to write it.
‐‐ Jennine Capó Crucet

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I'm a big Clippers fan.
‐‐ Charles Michael Davis

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.
‐‐ Robert Winston

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.
‐‐ John Edward

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.
‐‐ Austin Stowell

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.
‐‐ Hector Elizondo

I used to work the graveyard shift.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
‐‐ Robert Caro

I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
‐‐ Marion Milner

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
‐‐ Paul Dano

I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.
‐‐ Sarah Waters

I used to write at night. I was teaching school, and I was married, and had to do all the things that one does when one is working and has a family. But I used to write at night.
‐‐ Rudolfo Anaya

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
‐‐ Val Guest

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
‐‐ Marian Keyes

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.
‐‐ Melissa de la Cruz

I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
‐‐ Marilynne Robinson

I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.
‐‐ Heather Doerksen

I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

I used to write songs that were deeply personal, but since I am becoming so passionate about the world around me, that passion and drive is starting to come into my work.
‐‐ Sophie B. Hawkins

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
‐‐ Shelby Foote

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
‐‐ Robert Osborne

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey