All Quotes

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
‐‐ Raymond Moody

I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
‐‐ Rebecca Loos

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
‐‐ Sam Kean

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
‐‐ Roma Downey

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.
‐‐ David Rudisha

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
‐‐ Klaus Fuchs

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
‐‐ Ice Cube

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn't want a child-star model, so I didn't get into modeling until I was 14.
‐‐ Emily Ratajkowski

I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
‐‐ Patrick J. Adams

I was really a little housewife with two small children, and I had a husband who really didn't want his wife to work. He didn't like the competition. That's why I'm not married to him anymore.
‐‐ Pauline Trigere

I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.
‐‐ Robert Glasper

I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?
‐‐ Jayma Mays

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.
‐‐ Beth Riesgraf

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
‐‐ Paul Schneider

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.
‐‐ Kenny G

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
‐‐ Idris Elba

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.
‐‐ Ellie Kendrick

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.
‐‐ Nina Conti

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
‐‐ Olesya Rulin

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.
‐‐ Deborah Ellis

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
‐‐ Maria Bello

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
‐‐ John Otto

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.
‐‐ Laverne Cox

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
‐‐ Shannon Lucid

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.
‐‐ Richard Donner

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
‐‐ Stuart Townsend

I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
‐‐ Alice Englert

I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.
‐‐ Mike McCue

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.
‐‐ Norman Jewison

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
‐‐ Kurt Sutter

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
‐‐ John Key

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes.
‐‐ Michelle Gagnon

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether