All Quotes

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!
‐‐ Chris Roberson

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.
‐‐ Alicia Vikander

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
‐‐ Shooter Jennings

I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.'
‐‐ Rick Moranis

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
‐‐ Danny Glover

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
‐‐ Danny Glover

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.
‐‐ Merry Clayton

I was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think that's what made the sport fun. We had a great time laughing and having fun.
‐‐ Lee Haney

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.
‐‐ Eric Davis

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
‐‐ Richard Lester

I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.
‐‐ Keisha Castle-Hughes

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
‐‐ Sunny Murray

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
‐‐ James Woods

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.
‐‐ Andrew Lau

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
‐‐ Takeru Kobayashi

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.
‐‐ Vicky Hartzler

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.
‐‐ Edy Ganem

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.
‐‐ Emmanuel Lubezki

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
‐‐ David Herbert Donald

I was able to solve enough big problems along the way that the sheriff didn't come along and put the 'bankruptcy' sign up.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
‐‐ Edie Falco

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
‐‐ Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to use credit default swaps to protect not only my investments but the hundreds of jobs that exist because of my investment. I understand the dangers of credit default swaps and the benefits of credit default swaps.
‐‐ Jeff Greene

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
‐‐ Obie Trice

I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.
‐‐ Sean Astin

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
‐‐ Imogen Poots

I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
‐‐ Uri Geller

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
‐‐ J. D. Salinger

I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
‐‐ Steve Vai

I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
‐‐ Tommy Chong