All Quotes

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
‐‐ Eminem

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
‐‐ John Sayles

There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
‐‐ A. J. Buckley

There was a 'Wired' cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, 'Pray.' I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it's going to just go out of business or be bought.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
‐‐ Burt Rutan

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
‐‐ Jack Vance

There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.
‐‐ Aidan Gillen

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
‐‐ John Bonham

There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

There was all of about 30 kids where I went to school; we were all one clique.
‐‐ Jessie Usher

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
‐‐ Fred Ward

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.
‐‐ Shelley Long

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
‐‐ John Deacon

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
‐‐ Ed Koch

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
‐‐ Mark Morris

There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.
‐‐ China Anne McClain

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
‐‐ Phil Lesh

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
‐‐ Kate Micucci

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well.
‐‐ Tony Curran

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
‐‐ James Henry Breasted

There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
‐‐ Lauren Stamile

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
‐‐ Norah Jones

There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
‐‐ Hans Haacke

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
‐‐ Ted Rall

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
‐‐ Bill Pullman

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
‐‐ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceress.' There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, 'Look, you don't want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.'
‐‐ David Carradine

There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.
‐‐ Robert Urich

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.
‐‐ Richard Engel

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
‐‐ Dick Wolf

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.
‐‐ John le Carre

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
‐‐ Edward Lear

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
‐‐ Samuel Wilson

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
‐‐ Bernard Hill

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro