All Quotes

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.
‐‐ Adelaide Kane

It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.
‐‐ Steven Gerrard

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
‐‐ Jerome Charyn

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.
‐‐ Tom Sizemore

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.
‐‐ Sarah Ferguson

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.
‐‐ Jim Bakker

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

It was during my first trip to America in 1953 - that's when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.
‐‐ John Gokongwei

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid a dollar a line. I had an eighteen-line poem, and just as I was putting it into the envelope, I stopped and decided to make it a thirty-six-line poem. It seemed like the poem came back the next day: no letter, nothing.
‐‐ August Wilson

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky

It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.
‐‐ Marc Faber

It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.
‐‐ Dean Cain

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
‐‐ Ally Carter

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.
‐‐ Jason Lewis

It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want to get in trouble and end up in prison where I can't play football. It was as simple as that.
‐‐ Jermain Defoe

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
‐‐ Alice Hamilton

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
‐‐ Carolyn Murphy

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

It was either therapy or die.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

It was either write or die for me.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

It was enough just to sit there without words.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
‐‐ Mark Oliphant

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
‐‐ Douglas Hurd

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
‐‐ Gil Kane

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.
‐‐ Trey Parker

It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
‐‐ Madeleine Stowe

It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build India,' it was all about being an accountant, a lawyer, an engineer. So it was this idea that professionals would build the country.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
‐‐ Davy Crockett

It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.
‐‐ Patricia McBride

It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
‐‐ Bae Doona

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.
‐‐ Giovanni Ribisi

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.
‐‐ Howard Coble