All Quotes

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
‐‐ David Grann

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.
‐‐ Kirk Gibson

There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50.
‐‐ Toni Tennille

There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.
‐‐ Erez Lieberman Aiden

There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw attention to you. But all the cool things are on the other side of 'Yes, And.'
‐‐ Ali Farahnakian

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
‐‐ Faith Hill

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
‐‐ Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
‐‐ John Lasseter

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
‐‐ Andy Summers

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.
‐‐ Tessa Thompson

There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.
‐‐ Lecy Goranson

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
‐‐ Sonny Rollins

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
‐‐ Terry Gilliam

There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
‐‐ Paul Simonon

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'
‐‐ Sharon Stone

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.
‐‐ Rita Ora

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
‐‐ Michael Stipe

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

There was a point in time, when I put out the Chief Keef diss, where I was so hot that everybody was calling my phone. But I decided to go set up under Wale, but he wasn't really teaching me how to rap.
‐‐ Shy Glizzy

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.
‐‐ Carol Alt

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
‐‐ Chris Ofili

There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.
‐‐ Peter Weir

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
‐‐ Eleanor Mondale

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'
‐‐ Mark Vonnegut

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.
‐‐ Carmen Ejogo

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
‐‐ Kate Moss

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
‐‐ Esther Williams

There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.
‐‐ Chantal Sutherland

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
‐‐ Steven Wright

There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
‐‐ Bud Grant

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
‐‐ Guido van Rossum

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
‐‐ Neil Abercrombie