All Quotes

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
‐‐ Paul Auster

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.
‐‐ Phil Robertson

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
‐‐ Jack Irons

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.
‐‐ Glenn Tipton

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom

It was accountability that Nixon feared.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
‐‐ Linda McMahon

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.
‐‐ Todd Barry

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
‐‐ Gregg Easterbrook

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time.
‐‐ Liza Donnelly

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
‐‐ Neil Peart

It was actually my older brother who wanted to start acting. He would point at the TV as a kid and tell my mom he wanted to do it, and he would act his favorite scenes from 'Home Alone.'
‐‐ Kevin Schmidt

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
‐‐ Bille August

It was actually pretty difficult to grow up in the Star City. There were regular kids around me, and everybody knew that my father was a cosmonaut. Even at school, every teacher could comment on my behavior just because I was considered special.
‐‐ Roman Romanenko

It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a little bit, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket.
‐‐ Jean Dujardin

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.
‐‐ Anders Holm

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
‐‐ Leslie Banks

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
‐‐ Layne Staley

It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.
‐‐ Julian Clary

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
‐‐ Kevin Kline

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
‐‐ Mickey Mantle

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
‐‐ Karen Morley

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.
‐‐ Dave Edmunds

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
‐‐ Donal Logue

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.
‐‐ Louise Jameson

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.
‐‐ Leo Kottke

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
‐‐ Eisaku Sato

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
‐‐ Billy Sheehan

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
‐‐ Alice Hamilton

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
‐‐ Hans Frank

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!
‐‐ Kathy Bates

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
‐‐ Alisher Usmanov

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

It was always a dream of mine to play for the Orioles.
‐‐ Steve Clevenger

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

It was always about the story rather than the character.
‐‐ Jean Dujardin

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
‐‐ Linda Lavin