All Quotes

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
‐‐ Michael Riedel

I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
‐‐ Dave Davies

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.
‐‐ Martin Chalfie

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
‐‐ Clyde Tombaugh

I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.
‐‐ Ken Goldberg

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
‐‐ Michael E. Mann

I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
‐‐ Palmer Luckey

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.
‐‐ Sharon Lawrence

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.
‐‐ Janis Ian

I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.
‐‐ John Fusco

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.
‐‐ Matisyahu

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
‐‐ Martina McBride

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.
‐‐ Carson Kressley

I was into comic books as a kid.
‐‐ Len Wiseman

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.
‐‐ Brian Michael Bendis

I was into everything athletic. I played football. I ran track for a long time. I played basketball every day at home with my friends.
‐‐ Casper Smart

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.
‐‐ Nina Arianda

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
‐‐ Idris Elba

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.
‐‐ Ryan Stiles

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
‐‐ Ian MacKaye

I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
‐‐ Erich Leinsdorf

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
‐‐ Gavin DeGraw

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
‐‐ Elliott Yamin

I was introduced to spinning. It was so intense! It's the hardest workout you've ever done, and afterwards you feel amazing.
‐‐ Scott Michael Foster

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.
‐‐ John Madden

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.
‐‐ Todrick Hall

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.
‐‐ Alberto Tomba

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.
‐‐ John Sweeney

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.
‐‐ Josh Brolin