All Quotes

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
‐‐ Gabriel Mann

When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
‐‐ Joe Klein

When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I'm middle-aged; it's fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
‐‐ Annette Bening

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
‐‐ Retta

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
‐‐ Peter Berg

When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
‐‐ G-Eazy

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
‐‐ Brian Eno

When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn't do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical ... I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably a good name for it.'
‐‐ Kygo

When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

When I started modeling, I didn't know anything about fashion, but I'd watched the Victoria's Secret show.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.
‐‐ Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

When I started modeling, I was told to tan, but I always protected my face.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

When I started modeling, I was young and sort of a bit reckless - I wanted to make money and didn't really care about anything else.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

When I started modeling, it was like, 'Oh, she's too dark,' and I kind of looked at them like, 'You're too daft.'
‐‐ Alek Wek

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
‐‐ Iman

When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.
‐‐ Grace Jones

When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
‐‐ Kate Bush

When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one.
‐‐ Tony Fernandes

When I started my blog, I wanted it to be like my house - my own little place that anyone could come to.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

When I started my blog, it was really this one goal - I said, 'I am not going to be famous to the world, but I could be famous to people on the Internet.' And I set a goal. I said, 'I'm going to win an award,' because I had never won an award in my entire life.
‐‐ Mena Grabowski Trott

When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.'
‐‐ Tulsi Gabbard

When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.
‐‐ Tory Burch

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
‐‐ Tony Kaye

When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
‐‐ Chip Conley

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
‐‐ Anna Sui

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.
‐‐ Michael Graves

When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
‐‐ Craig Venter

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.
‐‐ Sarah Hughes

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.
‐‐ Anna Netrebko

When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of such a great community.
‐‐ PewDiePie

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.
‐‐ Vivica A. Fox

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
‐‐ Armando Iannucci

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
‐‐ Natasha Henstridge

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
‐‐ James Dyson

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
‐‐ Damien Rice

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
‐‐ Joe Morton

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.
‐‐ Tony McCoy