All Quotes

Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, our validation, our purpose and our acceptance don't stem from what we should do. They don't stem from what we have. They don't stem from what we've done or who we were. They stem simply from the fact that we are.
‐‐ Grace Gealey

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.
‐‐ Alfie Allen

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'
‐‐ David Walton

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.
‐‐ David Boies

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.
‐‐ Richard Bausch

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
‐‐ Chris Farley

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski

Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.
‐‐ Mike Myers

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
‐‐ Nina Simone

Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, then I'm able to go and do what I need to do and know it's not me, it's the story.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.
‐‐ Kelly Wearstler

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
‐‐ Michael Ondaatje

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
‐‐ Colleen McCullough

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.
‐‐ Pattie Boyd

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
‐‐ David Bowie

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
‐‐ Jason Sudeikis

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
‐‐ Luise Rainer

Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.
‐‐ Robert Mondavi

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
‐‐ Buddy Guy

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy.
‐‐ Anushka Sharma

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.
‐‐ Cheryl Strayed

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
‐‐ Madeleine Peyroux

Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
‐‐ Harold H. Greene

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.
‐‐ Kate Moss

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'
‐‐ Neil Peart

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
‐‐ A. J. McLean

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.
‐‐ Mark Waters

Once I will arrive in the ring, I'm going to make the most of this fight because this fight I will remember for the rest of my life. From my point of view, this night is going to be remembered by the British people. Not from the American people as much, but from the British fans here who will watch me beat Canelo Alvarez.
‐‐ Liam Smith

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.
‐‐ Kaskade

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
‐‐ J. William Fulbright

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
‐‐ Mikhail Bulgakov