All Quotes

I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
‐‐ Dave Davies

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.
‐‐ Gherman Titov

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.
‐‐ Cristin Milioti

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco

I wasn't a very good teacher.
‐‐ Amos Lee

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.
‐‐ Tracy Pollan

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
‐‐ Pat Benatar

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.
‐‐ Stacy Keibler

I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.
‐‐ Steven Adler

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.
‐‐ Ellen Wong

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.
‐‐ Denis Thatcher

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.
‐‐ Anna Wintour

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.
‐‐ Joan Sutherland

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
‐‐ Brit Marling

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.
‐‐ John Irving

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
‐‐ Anne Baxter

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.
‐‐ Michael Redhill

I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
‐‐ Nancy Sinatra

I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I wasn't allowed to throw big hooks and overhand rights until I'd been striking for three years. It's so you don't rely on those things from the very beginning. If your footwork sucks, and you can only stand in one place and throw your hands all crazy while the other person is running around, you're never going to be able to hit them.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
‐‐ Janet Evanovich

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
‐‐ Chris Raschka

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.
‐‐ Jessie J

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'
‐‐ Carson Kressley

I wasn't always this introverted.
‐‐ Syd Barrett

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
‐‐ Michael Heizer

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
‐‐ Tab Hunter

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
‐‐ Kate Bush

I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.
‐‐ Tom Folsom

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
‐‐ Kristy Swanson

I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
‐‐ Taya Kyle