All Quotes

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
‐‐ Lauren DeStefano

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
‐‐ Lisa Snowdon

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
‐‐ JoBeth Williams

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.
‐‐ June Allyson

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
‐‐ Jay McShann

It was my first time taking a taxi with Mason. I had to tell the driver to wait because I had to get the stroller out of the car.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
‐‐ Ulysses S. Grant

It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.
‐‐ Philip Roth

It was my idea to do a two-hour course of barista training. I was keen to learn how to finish off my coffee with a picture of a heart or a palm tree or, perhaps, a swan.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
‐‐ Vidal Sassoon

It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
‐‐ Susan Boyle

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
‐‐ Adolphe Menjou

It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.
‐‐ Glenn Hoddle

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
‐‐ Michael Reagan

It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
‐‐ Ferdinand Christian Baur

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
‐‐ P. G. Wodehouse

It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.'
‐‐ Ken Jeong

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
‐‐ Gary David Goldberg

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

It was nearly midnight on the night of February 26, 1806, and Alexandre Dumas, the future author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers,' was asleep at his uncle's house. He was not yet four years old. He was staying there because his father was gravely ill, and his mother thought it best for him not to be at home.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
‐‐ John Hope Franklin

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
‐‐ Orville Redenbacher

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.
‐‐ Hermann Maier

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
‐‐ Frederick Sanger

It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.
‐‐ Duffy

It was never a plan to be an actor.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
‐‐ Frank Woolley

It was never about winning medals or being famous.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.
‐‐ Ger Duany

It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun. It was probably fun when we played Performance Studio, and maybe some of the early gigs at CBGB's. But the Ramones were the type of group that had a bizarre mindset. Being in the band was so cut off from reality.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

It was never my goal to be an actor.
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
‐‐ Izabella Scorupco

It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
‐‐ Luke Evans

It was never someplace that I said, 'In my career, I must work at Disney.'
‐‐ Rich Moore

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
‐‐ Adam Baldwin