All Quotes

When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
‐‐ Jupiter Hammon

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.
‐‐ Emily Robison

When I was at high school, I used to pretend that I had work, and I would go and tell the head of school that I, like, really needed to leave, and I was really stressed out because I had work.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.
‐‐ Nell Newman

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
‐‐ Lei Jun

When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.
‐‐ Chris Renaud

When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.
‐‐ Bobby Davro

When I was at N.Y.U., I studied abroad in Prague, and I learned about some of the European animators, like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta. I didn't think at the time that I would end up doing anything like that, but I certainly thought it was very cool.
‐‐ Duke Johnson

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did.
‐‐ Ellen Goodman

When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and give birth to a chicken or another egg. It was something we dared together. I avoided eggs for years, but now they're my favourite food.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
‐‐ Vivien Leigh

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.
‐‐ Jane Birkin

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
‐‐ Om Puri

When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
‐‐ Ben Barnes

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
‐‐ Joan Collins

When I was at school, most people were planning on going to university and becoming doctors or lawyers. I wanted to be a singer, and I was laughed at. It was tough, but I never let anything stop me.
‐‐ Mollie King

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.
‐‐ Katherine Parkinson

When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.
‐‐ Jo Brand

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.
‐‐ Jonathan LaPaglia

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
‐‐ Adam McKay

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
‐‐ Trevor Nunn

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
‐‐ Michael Hayden

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'
‐‐ Sandra Lee

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.
‐‐ Michael Ovitz

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.
‐‐ Bobby Moynihan

When I was at USC, I did a movie with somebody, and I had a blast doing it.
‐‐ Matt Willig

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
‐‐ Cory Michael Smith

When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
‐‐ Hailee Steinfeld

When I was auditioning, I didn't know it was 'Daredevil.' Everything was secret. They're secret agents. They wouldn't give you any clues. I was a big fan of the show, and I think it helped me, once I got the part, to really understand the world that they live in. It helped me during shooting.
‐‐ Elodie Yung

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
‐‐ Gail Porter

When I was beginning, a young actor could go from repertory company to repertory company. I did that and loved it. I was also lucky.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.
‐‐ Grace Slick

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
‐‐ Samantha Mathis

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.
‐‐ Troye Sivan

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
‐‐ George S. Kaufman

When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
‐‐ Pixie Lott

When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
‐‐ Liam Payne

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
‐‐ Gracie Allen

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield