All Quotes

I was focusing on sax while at Berklee, but then I started to play Brazilian choro and Colombian music. I was doing more folkloric stuff on the clarinet because it works better. Finally, I realized I was working more on the clarinet than the saxophone, and I started to feel more comfortable on it.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.
‐‐ Ronnie Montrose

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
‐‐ Carly Craig

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.
‐‐ Josh Silver

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.
‐‐ Christopher Monckton

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
‐‐ Edmund Barton

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
‐‐ Josef Albers

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
‐‐ Jay-Z

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.
‐‐ Bidzina Ivanishvili

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
‐‐ Mary Pickford

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

I was forever changed by my experience on 'Once and Again.' All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.
‐‐ Susanna Thompson

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
‐‐ Richard Greenberg

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
‐‐ Gabriela Sabatini

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three times a week, and we would watch movies at home. As a teenager, instead of going out, we would have these huge movie nights in. But I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
‐‐ Brenton Thwaites

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
‐‐ Raul Labrador

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.'
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called 'Romantically Challenged,' and I'm going to be playing Alyssa Milano's little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from 'Worst Week' - he's hilarious.
‐‐ Kelly Stables

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
‐‐ David Mamet

I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.
‐‐ Heather Langenkamp

I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
‐‐ Jack Wagner

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
‐‐ Bar Paly

I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
‐‐ Karolina Kurkova

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.
‐‐ Rob Portman

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
‐‐ O. R. Melling

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'
‐‐ Robert Duvall

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
‐‐ Frank Quattrone

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl

I was fortunate to be able to do two movies with Harold Ramis. He was the kindest of any director with whom I worked. Harold was a genius. On top of his talent, he could do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle faster than anyone! I am lucky to have known him as well as I did. I will miss him.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I was fortunate to be born when I was. There's been a massive rise in British cycling since I joined the junior programme when I was 17. It all started in 2004 when Chris Hoy won gold for the 1 km. time trial in Athens; when one person starts doing well, they take everyone with them.
‐‐ Geraint Thomas

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
‐‐ Larry Fitzgerald

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.
‐‐ Lucy Davis

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
‐‐ G-Eazy

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.
‐‐ Lois Lowry