I Quotes
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“I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.”
“I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.”
“I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.”
“I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.”
“I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was in that studio trying my best to feel content with myself. I had, like, a stipend. I had a place to sleep. I had a studio to work in. I had nothing else to think about, you know. And that's - that was a huge luxury in New York City.”
“I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.”
“I had no idea how Annabeth Chase had figured out that the Daedalus command could be used on any automaton. Then again, she’d been able to redesign my palace on Mount Olympus with perfect acoustics and surround-sound speakers in the bathroom, so her cleverness shouldn’t have surprised me.”
Source: The Burning Maze
“I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.”
“I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
“I had no idea how it knew, but it knew I knew, and I knew it, and there was no point in faking.”
Source: Darkfever
“I had no idea how many famous people [Andy Cohen] have unintentionally and hilariously insulted of late: Charlie Rose, his cousin Amber Rose, Tori Spelling. . . . the list goes on and on.”
“I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.”
“I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.”
“I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?”
Source: Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives
“I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?”
“I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.”
“I had no idea I was part of what was going to be a big mega-hit. I thought I was doing a B sci-fi movie [Independence Day]. And, actually, it was Jeff Goldblum who looked at me one day and said, "You know, I think this is going to be really something." And I said, "Well, I hope you're right." And sure enough, it turned out to be.”
“I had no idea if he had asked me because he liked me, or if his mom made him (our parents know each other), or because he lost a bet.”
Source: Let It Snow
“I had no idea if I was doing the friend thing right or utterly screwing it up.”
Source: Double Down
“I had no idea it was possible,” he says, “for you to want me as much as I want you.”
Source: Book Lovers
“I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.”
“I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.”
“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”
“I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.”
“I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?”
“I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. It's like going to a place that you've never been to before - you've got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.”
“I had no idea punching was so fraught with peril.'
'Apparently, it takes brains to be a brute.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The character of Hap wouldn't stop talking to me, and then there was a third, and over the years nine novels and a collection of stories and some uncollected stories.”
“I had no idea so much happiness could be experienced by simply sitting in a chair.”
Source: Soul Wisdom: A Guide to Miraculous Living
“I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.”
“I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.”
“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.”
“I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.”
“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.”
Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation
“I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.”
“I had no idea that I was…destroying people.”
“I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.”
“I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.”
“I had no idea that "letting go" would be so complicated; that it would sometimes feel liberating and other times more sorrowful and lonely. In the long run, most of it was like standing on the shore, watching your family set sail for America, and they're smiling and waving good-bye, and getting smaller and smaller, but you are still the same size with no one to talk to.”
“I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.”
Source: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”
“I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book”
“I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that you have been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award." I was in the back of this car, and I said, "Oh," and burst into tears, of course, because it was so unexpected and quite wonderful. I thought it's been worth hanging around all these years.”
“I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.”
“I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.”
“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.”
“I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.”
“I had no idea the day I watched President Obama at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm that I was going to become a victim of the SMART grid!”