All Quotes

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
‐‐ Don Johnson

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
‐‐ Hanoi Hannah

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
‐‐ Marc Davis

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
‐‐ Mary Cheney

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.
‐‐ Thomas Keller

It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
‐‐ Barry Sheene

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.
‐‐ Isaiah Thomas

It wasn't all frustration. I've had a lot of good times with Ferrari as well.
‐‐ Jean Alesi

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.
‐‐ Jim Sullivan

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
‐‐ Julie Walters

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.
‐‐ Esha Gupta

It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
‐‐ Irwin Winkler

It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.
‐‐ Nia Vardalos

It wasn't fun to go to school, because we had to wear these blue things around our necks. We had to join the Pioneer Society, and we had to salute with our hands over our eyes. Even then, I was thinking for myself. I thought this wasn't so different from the way the Nazis had conditioned people.
‐‐ Nina Hagen

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.
‐‐ Sherwood Schwartz

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
‐‐ Kate Adie

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
‐‐ Tananarive Due

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.
‐‐ Evanna Lynch

It wasn't like anybody said, 'Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.' In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'
‐‐ Isaac Hempstead Wright

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.'
‐‐ Judah Friedlander

It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
‐‐ Venus Williams

It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.
‐‐ Curt Gowdy

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
‐‐ Bernadette Devlin

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
‐‐ Caitlin Rose

It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.
‐‐ Richard House

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
‐‐ Emmy Rossum

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
‐‐ David Sylvian

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
‐‐ Jennifer Capriati

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
‐‐ Gary Barlow

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.
‐‐ Grant Hill

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
‐‐ Aleksandr Kuprin

It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
‐‐ Calvin Johnson

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
‐‐ Lesley-Anne Down

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
‐‐ Sidney Blumenthal