All Quotes

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.
‐‐ George Jones

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
‐‐ Edie Falco

There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
‐‐ Zendaya

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
‐‐ Susan Cheever

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
‐‐ Ian McDiarmid

There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.
‐‐ David Cross

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
‐‐ Theaster Gates

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
‐‐ Johnny Winter

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.
‐‐ Saul David

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.
‐‐ Matthew Stewart

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.
‐‐ Ruth Pitter

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
‐‐ Julie Walters

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
‐‐ Jessica Hagedorn

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
‐‐ Marguerite Young

There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.
‐‐ Lionel Barber

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
‐‐ Charlotte Gainsbourg

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.
‐‐ Fred L. Turner

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
‐‐ Paul Weller

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
‐‐ Shawn Colvin

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.
‐‐ Phil Collins

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
‐‐ John Starks

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
‐‐ Orson Welles

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'
‐‐ Salli Richardson

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
‐‐ Leon Kass

There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.
‐‐ David Warner

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.
‐‐ Michael Gambon

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.
‐‐ Rooney Mara

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.
‐‐ Shawn Wayans

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.
‐‐ Joey Lauren Adams

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.
‐‐ Peter Facinelli

There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.
‐‐ Colin Egglesfield

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.
‐‐ Sergio Aguero

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
‐‐ Adam Driver

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.
‐‐ Leroy Chiao

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
‐‐ Pat Oliphant