I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
‐‐ Ruth Brown
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
‐‐ Elliott Smith
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
‐‐ Sam Phillips
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
‐‐ Chris Hughes
I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor
I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.
‐‐ Tiny Tim
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
‐‐ David Antin
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
‐‐ Pat Gillick
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
‐‐ Robert Caro
I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.
‐‐ Josh Turner
I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.
‐‐ Mike Posner
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
‐‐ Jeff Koons
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
‐‐ Leo Baekeland
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
‐‐ Vera Wang
I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.
‐‐ Paul Merton
I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
‐‐ Anthony Weiner
I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
‐‐ James Blake
I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
‐‐ Evan Dando
I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
‐‐ John Updike
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen
I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
‐‐ Paul Haggis
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
‐‐ Jim Hodges
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.
‐‐ Jewel
I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci
I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.
‐‐ Stan Freberg
I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'
‐‐ Dexter Fletcher
I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.
‐‐ Richard Donner
I was twelve years old when I started reading 'Vogue.'
‐‐ Brad Goreski
I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.
‐‐ Judy Blume
I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
‐‐ Jane Green
I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
‐‐ Leo Kottke
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
‐‐ Tori Amos
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
‐‐ Janet Jackson
I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!
‐‐ Aly Raisman
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.
‐‐ Lynda Barry
I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
‐‐ Shakira
I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.
‐‐ Toni Tennille
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
‐‐ Alain de Botton
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.
‐‐ Michael Douglas
I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
‐‐ Iman
I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
‐‐ Ursula Andress
I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.
‐‐ Tippi Hedren
I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
‐‐ Jack McBrayer
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
‐‐ Rachel Brosnahan
I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.
‐‐ Greg Maddux