All Quotes

It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible!
‐‐ Tim Flock

It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
‐‐ Tamra Davis

It was hard saying goodbye to the 'iCarly' family just because we have become such a family, but I do get to see them all the time, and I stay in touch with them.
‐‐ Jerry Trainor

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.
‐‐ Miriam Makeba

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
‐‐ Jeff Ament

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
‐‐ Shaun White

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.
‐‐ Donna Rice

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.
‐‐ Mats Sundin

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.
‐‐ Gerard Way

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
‐‐ Enrico Caruso

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
‐‐ Kate Millett

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'
‐‐ Jacqueline McKenzie

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
‐‐ Anita Ekberg

It was, 'If you don't do 'The Show Goes On,' your album's not coming out.' I had nothing to do with that record - nothing. I was literally told how I should rap on it. But I'm a bastard, 'cos I'll turn around and put it back in your face.
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
‐‐ Isabel Wilkerson

It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.
‐‐ Peter Weir

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.
‐‐ Steve Crocker

It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
‐‐ Asa Gray

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
‐‐ Maria Semple

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.
‐‐ Tom Daschle

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
‐‐ Lasse Hallstrom

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.
‐‐ Paddy Considine

It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
‐‐ Brandon Routh

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
‐‐ Isaiah Thomas

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
‐‐ Darius Rucker

It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.
‐‐ Steve Sheinkin

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.
‐‐ Richard Virenque

It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loathing, jeering derision and gendered stereotyping built on two centuries of male power. What was interesting was how hard she tried to do just that.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
‐‐ Alice Hamilton

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.
‐‐ Henry Carter Stuart