A Quotes
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“As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.”
“As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.”
“As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!”
“As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.”
“As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.”
“As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.”
“As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.”
“As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.”
“As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.”
“As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms, and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour. At the time I am writing, it is five years since my last return to England. During the first year, I could not endure my wife or children in my presence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room. To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand. The first money I laid out was to buy two young stone-horses, which I keep in a good stable; and next to them, the groom is my greatest favourite, for I feel my spirits revived by the smell he contracts in the stable. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me and friendship to each other.”
Source: Guilliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World
“As soon as I entered the room, he cried out, without any other greeting: "You've gotten very fat!" It was his way of disarming, I thought, any horror I might have felt at his own pudding-like rotundity, which had trebled since I had seen him last.”
Source: And Yet ...
“As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.”
“As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?”
“As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.”
“As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.”
“As soon as I finished film school I was thinking about, how do I get to feature films? It took about eight years, and I'm still working. Feature films was not the end goal. Feature films was one of the stages. Getting to the point of the Coen brothers or Tarantino, where you're writing your own material and have the budget to do it properly, that's the end goal, and I'm close to that.”
“As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.”
“As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.”
“As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.”
“As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.”
“As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier.”
Source: Show Us Who You Are
“As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.”
“As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.”
“As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.”
“As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.”
“As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.”
“As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.”
“As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.”
Source: Wegman's world: 5 December 1982 to 16 January 1983, Walker Art Center
“As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.”
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.
I think it's the smell that makes so many folks fall asleep in the library. You'll see someone turn a page and you can imagine a puff of page powder coming up real slow and easy until it starts piling on a person's eyelashes, weighing their eyes down so much they stay down a little longer after each blink and finally making them so heavy that they just don't come back up at all. Then their mouths open and their heads start bouncing up and down like they're bobbing in a big tub of of water for apples and before you know it... they're out cold and their face thunks smack-dab on the book.
That's the part that makes librarians the maddest. They get real upset if folks start drooling in the books”
Source: Bud, Not Buddy
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.”
Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections
“As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.”
“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
“As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.”
“As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at Boulder, having seen students there who looked a lot like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.”
“As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.”
“As soon as I had crossed the ocean, I made sure to tell everyone about my Xhosa people, our culture, and our language isiXhosa. I was proud. I wanted everyone to know about us.”
“As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.”
“As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.”
Source: Don Carlos ... Translated Into English Heroic Metre ... by I. Towler
“As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.”
“As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.”
“As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.”
“As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.”
“As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.”
“As soon as I hit the ball, I know if it's in.”
“As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.”
“As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.”
“As soon as I learned what the smell of bacon was, I learned how to make it.”
“As soon as I leave the world [of the show], I want to turn around and come back. That's how real it is. As soon as I leave the theater I want to wake up and come back the next day and do it all over again. It's that much fun.”