All Quotes

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
‐‐ Barbara Castle

It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
‐‐ Cillian Murphy

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
‐‐ Curtis Armstrong

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
‐‐ Grace Jones

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.
‐‐ Ariel Rechtshaid

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.
‐‐ Ronnie Montrose

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
‐‐ Randal Kleiser

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
‐‐ Robert Venturi

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.
‐‐ Emile Hirsch

It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.
‐‐ Luke Evans

It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.
‐‐ Scotty Moore

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.
‐‐ Matthew McGrory

It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan

It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.
‐‐ Michaela Watkins

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You're suddenly somebody's wife. And you're like, 'Oh, I'm half of a couple now. I've lost me.'
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
‐‐ Mal Peet

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
‐‐ Ornette Coleman

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.
‐‐ Jennifer Connelly

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
‐‐ Alan Vega

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

It was when my American coach Dan Pfaff came over from the States in 2009 and started working with me that we really began to look at my diet. He decided I was eating too many carbohydrates, so I cut back on bread. Over the next year I lost weight and became leaner.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.
‐‐ Kay Granger

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
‐‐ James Wolcott

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.
‐‐ Henry Walter Bates

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.
‐‐ Herbert Lom

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.
‐‐ Lawrence Summers

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.
‐‐ Peter Singer

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'
‐‐ Tori Spelling

It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
‐‐ Hayden Schlossberg

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.
‐‐ Jo Brand

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
‐‐ Yusef Komunyakaa

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
‐‐ David Thewlis