All Quotes

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
‐‐ Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
‐‐ Robert Klein

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.
‐‐ Jim Ed Brown

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
‐‐ Eric San

When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.'
‐‐ Common

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.
‐‐ Kim Raver

When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
‐‐ Ira Glass

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
‐‐ Ian Thorpe

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
‐‐ Michael Arad

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.
‐‐ Steven Sater

When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'Portal 2', they got very excited, suddenly. More excited than anything I've ever done before, weirdly. Gamers are incredibly enthusiastic about the stuff they love.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
‐‐ Eberhard Weber

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.
‐‐ Dominika Cibulkova

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
‐‐ Frankie Avalon

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
‐‐ David Edwards

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
‐‐ Jesse Harris

When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only bring Billy and Maddy together in terms of proximity and give them a common goal but that would also drive a wedge between them. And nothing fit the bill quite like the arrival of some children.
‐‐ Molly O'Keefe

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
‐‐ Judy Blume

When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.
‐‐ Kenneth Bonert

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.
‐‐ Sophia Bush

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'
‐‐ Gloria Vanderbilt

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
‐‐ Victoria Principal

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.
‐‐ Richard Branson

When I started wearing a yarmulke, I wanted to stand out or take the form of whatever was inspiring me. But now I think there's something to not working it, to keeping it on the inside, and it just being kind of like a secret.
‐‐ Matisyahu

When I started windsurfing, it was a hobby, and I enjoyed the lifestyle. Then it became an Olympic dream. Now I've achieved that with a medal. I just feel so lucky.
‐‐ Bryony Shaw

When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.
‐‐ John Lasseter

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
‐‐ Johnny Winter

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
‐‐ James Garner

When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.
‐‐ John Varvatos

When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with.
‐‐ Lynn Shelton

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
‐‐ Brian Eno

When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
‐‐ Avicii