All Quotes

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
‐‐ Thomas J. Sargent

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
‐‐ Stewart Lee

I wasn't the first choice for the role of Danny Tanner. Betty White was. Not true, but there was another actor whom they had shot the pilot with.
‐‐ Bob Saget

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.
‐‐ Jay Mohr

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
‐‐ Nancy Meyers

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

I wasn't the most confident of cooks, but I just persevered, and I wanted to learn, and I wanted to be a sponge, and I wanted to be better than the next person, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I just kept pushing, and it took me a long time actually to be confident in my technique and my ability as a cook.
‐‐ April Bloomfield

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
‐‐ Cindy Crawford

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid

I wasn't the most well-liked person in Canton. I was a coach's son who played quarterback. It was tough at times.
‐‐ Josh McDaniels

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.
‐‐ Leif Garrett

I wasn't the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail - and, you know, while she was speaking and at the convention - to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace

I wasn't the prettiest girl in the room, but I learned to carry myself with confidence - that's how you make the best impression on people.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.
‐‐ Sarah Burton

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.
‐‐ Joyce Giraud

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
‐‐ Pat Barker

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.
‐‐ Dennis Brown

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
‐‐ Graham Nash

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
‐‐ Ziad Doueiri

I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.
‐‐ Tori Spelling

I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
‐‐ Fergie

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
‐‐ Daisy Ridley

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
‐‐ Barry McGee

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.
‐‐ Chad le Clos

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.
‐‐ Amanda Eliasch

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
‐‐ Norah Jones

I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.
‐‐ Katie Holmes

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
‐‐ Jill Clayburgh

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.
‐‐ Tamer Hassan

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.
‐‐ Helena Christensen