All Quotes

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.
‐‐ George Noory

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.
‐‐ Sarah Koenig

I've been a Raider all my life.
‐‐ Jim Otto

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
‐‐ Ron Suskind

I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, personal freedom, less government and fewer taxes. But I also believe in compassion, inclusion, and helping those who want to help themselves.
‐‐ Lionel Sosa

I've been a Republican since age 13, when we got our first television set, and I saw the Republican National Convention on television. And President Eisenhower was talking about personal responsibility, about opening the door for opportunity and that people could really take care of themselves without a lot of government intrusions.
‐‐ Lionel Sosa

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
‐‐ Sean Penn

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
‐‐ Melissa Etheridge

I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

I've been a Ryan Reynolds fan since the first time I saw him.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
‐‐ Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
‐‐ Alice Hoffman

I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
‐‐ Steve Earle

I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love.
‐‐ Donna Air

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.
‐‐ Jon Evans

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.
‐‐ Shane Filan

I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
‐‐ Dan Webster

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan forever.
‐‐ Kygo

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.
‐‐ Diane Neal

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit

I've been a staunch Republican.
‐‐ Montel Williams

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
‐‐ Patricia Briggs

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
‐‐ Kenneth Lay

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
‐‐ Brooke Burns

I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!
‐‐ Tori Spelling

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
‐‐ Jane Haddam

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
‐‐ Steven Heighton

I've been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I've been a vegan for about 15 years.
‐‐ Emily Deschanel

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
‐‐ Brittany Daniel

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
‐‐ Jean O'Leary

I've been a very lucky actor.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood

I've been a voice for many people.
‐‐ Lou Barletta

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub