All Quotes

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
‐‐ James D'arcy

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.
‐‐ Dave Holland

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
‐‐ Gregg Easterbrook

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
‐‐ Jane Mayer

It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.
‐‐ Lorrie Moore

It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.
‐‐ Robin Roberts

It was part of your religion to hate the British.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
‐‐ Ho Chi Minh

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
‐‐ Robert Wyatt

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
‐‐ John Mahoney

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.
‐‐ David Carradine

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
‐‐ Don Henley

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
‐‐ Chiaki Kuriyama

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.
‐‐ Big Sean

It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
‐‐ Nancy Roman

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
‐‐ Diana Krall

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
‐‐ John Oliver

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
‐‐ Ted Nugent

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
‐‐ Dave Barry

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
‐‐ Dave Sim

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
‐‐ Russell Baker

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
‐‐ Bruce Davison

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.
‐‐ Kip Thorne

It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

It was quite an honour when 'New Woman' magazine voted me 88th sexiest man in the world. I think I was one in front of David Cameron.
‐‐ Robert Webb

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.
‐‐ Edvard Moser

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.
‐‐ Charlotte Church

It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.
‐‐ Graham Coxon

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.
‐‐ Joe Lando

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.
‐‐ Michael Arad

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
‐‐ Jeri Ryan

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
‐‐ Jack Kilby

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
‐‐ Guy Clark