All Quotes

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
‐‐ Enya

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
‐‐ Tracey Emin

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.
‐‐ Kenny Hickey

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
‐‐ Matthew Sweet

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
‐‐ Camila Alves

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.
‐‐ James Levine

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.
‐‐ Josh Groban

It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.
‐‐ Rose McGowan

It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife.
‐‐ Ken Marino

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
‐‐ Chuck Yeager

It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.
‐‐ David Thewlis

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
‐‐ Caterina Scorsone

It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.
‐‐ Gloria Grahame

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
‐‐ Denise Van Outen

It wasn't until 1973 that Congress and journalists began to investigate 'Operation Menu,' around the same moment that the Watergate scandal was unfolding.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
‐‐ Rodney Mullen

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!
‐‐ Terry Crews

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
‐‐ Barney Frank

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
‐‐ Trevor Dunn

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.
‐‐ Kenny G

It wasn't until I began to work out in earnest that I became aware of what I was eating. When I became more mindful about exercise, I became more mindful about eating.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.
‐‐ Danny Pintauro

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
‐‐ James Garner

It wasn't until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called 'Black and Blue,' and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began.
‐‐ Savion Glover

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.
‐‐ Cote de Pablo

It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.
‐‐ Chris Parnell

It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.
‐‐ John Barrowman

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'
‐‐ Roscoe Mitchell

It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.
‐‐ Jorma Taccone

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'
‐‐ Neal Asher

It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
‐‐ Chance The Rapper

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
‐‐ Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.
‐‐ Pattie Boyd

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
‐‐ Carol Windley

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.
‐‐ Suze Orman