All Quotes

When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
‐‐ Lance Reddick

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.
‐‐ Linus Roache

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the guys who are supposedly blind and crippled, who aren't, got me after I'd collected a lot of money, took my money and threatened to break my arm if I ever came back to their 'kip,' their turf.
‐‐ Saul Rubinek

When I went to Europe a few years ago, I felt very at home there, and I loved standing in Notre Dame and looking at all the gargoyles on the outside of that building and realizing that, as scary and frightening as they were, what I was looking at was something that was built to the glory of God.
‐‐ Scott Derrickson

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
‐‐ James Franco

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
‐‐ Ken Ham

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
‐‐ Paul Feig

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture.
‐‐ Hugh Hardy

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.
‐‐ Beth Riesgraf

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.
‐‐ Janet Reno

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
‐‐ Binyavanga Wainaina

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.
‐‐ Eric Topol

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore

When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.
‐‐ David Hallberg

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
‐‐ Julius Erving

When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.
‐‐ Alan Furst

When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.
‐‐ Bethany Mota

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
‐‐ Gary Numan

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.
‐‐ Joan Didion

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
‐‐ Eoin Colfer

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
‐‐ Dan Deacon

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.
‐‐ Sid Haig

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
‐‐ Spike Lee

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.
‐‐ Matisyahu

When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends.
‐‐ Kellin Quinn

When I went to Spain, the tourism minister told me a lot of people want to come to India, as they love Bollywood, but they don't have direct flights and find it difficult to get visas on arrival that is currently offered to only citizens of nine countries.
‐‐ Chiranjeevi

When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
‐‐ Don Kardong