All Quotes

When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
‐‐ Adam Beach

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
‐‐ Jonathan Tropper

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.
‐‐ Sarah Hughes

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
‐‐ Eric Heiden

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
‐‐ George McGovern

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.
‐‐ Diane Warren

When I was small, playing NBA Live, that's how I knew everyone in the NBA. That's how I learned about the players.
‐‐ Tony Parker

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
‐‐ Namie Amuro

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.
‐‐ Ann Romney

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.
‐‐ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
‐‐ Dana Brunetti

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.
‐‐ James Franco

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
‐‐ Elizabeth Moon

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.
‐‐ John Corbett

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
‐‐ Steve Breen

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
‐‐ Lynda Obst

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time.
‐‐ Sebastiao Salgado

When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.
‐‐ Anna Sui

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
‐‐ Bruce Dern

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.
‐‐ Rick Astley

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
‐‐ Jason Isbell

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.
‐‐ Tila Tequila

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
‐‐ Robert Jay Lifton

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
‐‐ John Irving

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley

When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.
‐‐ Shelley Conn

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
‐‐ Nina Simone

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
‐‐ Victoria Strauss

When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario Bros.,' 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Yoshi' on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.
‐‐ Amber Rose

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.
‐‐ Paul Broun

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
‐‐ Ann Beattie

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
‐‐ Jack McDevitt

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy