All Quotes

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
‐‐ Ted Cruz

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.
‐‐ Antonio Villaraigosa

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.
‐‐ Richard Grasso

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.
‐‐ Azealia Banks

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
‐‐ Billy Graham

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
‐‐ Martin Sheen

When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.
‐‐ Chet Williamson

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?
‐‐ Bill Skarsgard

When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I could bring to it that maybe the next guy wouldn't?' Because I've read a lot of very good scripts and thought there are people who could do this better than I.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
‐‐ Jessica Walter

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.
‐‐ Faran Tahir

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
‐‐ Harold E. Varmus

When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'
‐‐ Tom Ford

When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.
‐‐ Jesmyn Ward

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
‐‐ Jane Campion

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'
‐‐ Jess Row

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
‐‐ Michael Eisner

When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'
‐‐ Betsy Brandt

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
‐‐ Dennis Ritchie

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
‐‐ Ray Liotta

When I read Deborah Brenner's book 'Women of the Vine' about women wine makers, I was impressed that many of the women she had interviewed had come to wine making later in life as a second career.
‐‐ Rebecca Pidgeon

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
‐‐ Alan King

When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. Specifically, a lot of the events that should have taken centre-stage - wars, social upheavals - were seen entirely through the eyes of the women of a Chinese household.
‐‐ Aliette de Bodard

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
‐‐ Adam Driver

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.
‐‐ Max Brooks

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
‐‐ Sharon Creech

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

When I read, I'm purely a reader.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
‐‐ Sally Mann

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn't laugh, didn't loosen up, didn't seem to have a light side. I thought, well, that demure nature is what we believe of women of Old Japan, so she seemed not like a modern Japanese but from an earlier time.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

When I read Malcolm X, I didn't agree with it all, but I inhaled it; I connected to his rage.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
‐‐ Bennet Omalu

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
‐‐ Marilynne Robinson

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
‐‐ Alan Furst

When I read 'Planet Terror,' it was like nothing I had ever read before remotely, and yet it has so many references.
‐‐ Marley Shelton