All Quotes

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
‐‐ Gene Hackman

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
‐‐ Lawrence R. Klein

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

My early films were very European based. It was 'As It Is In Heaven,' 'Together,' they were great international successes, but then I did, I think, 60 movies or something.
‐‐ Michael Nyqvist

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
‐‐ Tony Iommi

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
‐‐ Bruce Robinson

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
‐‐ David Warner

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.
‐‐ Matt Haig

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.
‐‐ Julian Schnabel

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
‐‐ John Hughes

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.
‐‐ Jeff Greene

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
‐‐ Douglass North

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
‐‐ George Woodcock

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.
‐‐ Craig Venter

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
‐‐ Janet Reno

My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.
‐‐ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
‐‐ Chrisette Michele

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
‐‐ Steve Cropper

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
‐‐ Jason Blum

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.
‐‐ Andy Behrman

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.
‐‐ Veronica Webb

My eccentricity became direction.
‐‐ Jean Paul Gaultier

My editor picked out the name she wanted. I was either going to be Kim Harrison or Lisa Harrison, because she wanted me shelved right next to Hamilton.
‐‐ Kim Harrison

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
‐‐ John Burnside

My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?
‐‐ Pierce Brown

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
‐‐ David Brin

My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
‐‐ Rudolph A. Marcus

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.
‐‐ Daniel Nathans

My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt

My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.
‐‐ Agnes Gund

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment.
‐‐ Robert Fogel

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

My education was an education by movies.
‐‐ Robert Benton

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
‐‐ Jeffrey Tambor

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
‐‐ Ellen Willis

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
‐‐ Eric Idle

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

My education was very tough.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.
‐‐ George Nethercutt

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
‐‐ Henry Ossawa Tanner

My effort is to slip into any role that is offered to me. The minute you go into those costumes, those grand sets, and start prepping up for the role, you become the part or at least start feeling the part.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone