All Quotes

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
‐‐ Jess Walter

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
‐‐ George Osborne

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
‐‐ Barry McGuire

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.
‐‐ Spencer Abraham

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
‐‐ John Garfield

There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other's future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on the web, in the medium Radar should have made its own.
‐‐ Nick Denton

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
‐‐ Stellan Skarsgard

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
‐‐ Tom Felton

There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.
‐‐ Frankie Muniz

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.
‐‐ Shiri Appleby

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.
‐‐ Gordon Gould

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
‐‐ Jennifer Beals

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
‐‐ Nas

There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.
‐‐ Vonda Shepard

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.
‐‐ Cory Booker

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.
‐‐ Patrick J. Adams

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
‐‐ Claire Danes

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
‐‐ Jack Kilby

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
‐‐ Pamela Stephenson

There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.
‐‐ Gelsey Kirkland

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'
‐‐ Rose McGowan

There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great.
‐‐ Hunter Tylo

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
‐‐ Beatrice Dalle

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.
‐‐ Ronnie Barker

There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.
‐‐ Kenneth Chenault

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
‐‐ Eric Ries

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
‐‐ Rita Coolidge

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.
‐‐ Steven T. Katz

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
‐‐ Jonathan Shapiro

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
‐‐ Ennio Morricone

There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.
‐‐ Dick York

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.
‐‐ Jason Marsden

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'
‐‐ Joss Whedon

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

There was a time, early on in my career, when it was very important for me to be liked by everyone. It meant that I was musically less honest with myself.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
‐‐ R. Kelly

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
‐‐ Matt Long

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
‐‐ Naomi Watts