All Quotes

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
‐‐ Bill Monroe

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.
‐‐ Patricia McBride

I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
‐‐ Bryan Robson

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.
‐‐ Paula Deen

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
‐‐ Steven Hatfill

I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.
‐‐ Lindsay Hartley

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

I was devastated when I had to go blonde.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
‐‐ Dannel Malloy

I was diagnosed with a lung disorder that some people walk around with and don't even know they have. Through early diagnosis, I'm happy to share that I stay healthy with diet and exercise.
‐‐ Tisha Campbell-Martin

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
‐‐ Laura Ziskin

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.
‐‐ Ron Santo

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.
‐‐ Princess Beatrice of York

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
‐‐ Darrell Hammond

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
‐‐ Gail Devers

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers.
‐‐ Carol Alt

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.
‐‐ Jonah Lomu

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
‐‐ Judith Rossner

I was different and people made fun of me.
‐‐ Judith Light

I was different from most young conductors today.
‐‐ Kurt Masur

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.
‐‐ Robert Crais

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.
‐‐ Steven Klein

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

I was directing before I knew it was called that.
‐‐ Guillermo del Toro

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.
‐‐ Richard Ayoade

I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.
‐‐ Cory Monteith

I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.
‐‐ Eric Davis

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.
‐‐ George Grosz

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

I was discovered by Paul Marciano of Guess when I was actually, like, two years old. And so I started with Baby Guess; I did Guess Kids, and then I stopped because I was a really competitive horseback rider and a club volleyball player. I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. So, I kind of stopped modeling.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
‐‐ Maud Welzen

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
‐‐ Derek Luke

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
‐‐ Alexis Denisof

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
‐‐ Michel Faber