I Quotes
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“I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.”
“I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.”
“I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.”
“I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.”
“I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.”
Source: James Cameron: Interviews
“I had pictured the corporate world that I seek to enter as a castle on a hill, outside of which the starving vagrants wander, beset upon by wolves and barbarian hordes, begging for entry into the safety of the fortified towers. But now I see there is another zone out here: a somewhat settled encampment, where people toil for uncertain rewards at minor tasks invented by the castle dwellers. There is an advantage to occupying this zone: you are free of the rigid conformity required of those who dwell inside; you can actually “Be Your Own Boss!” A few do very well, acquiring pink Cadillacs or fortunes from real estate deals. Many more are ruined or pour themselves into efforts that generate near-poverty-level earnings year after year. There is no safety out here; the wolves keep circling.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.”
“I had plans, Karolina, and I chose power over love.”
Source: Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
“I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.”
“I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.”
“I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.”
“I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.”
“I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.”
“I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.”
“I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.”
“I had possessed her - and she never knew it.”
Source: Lolita
“I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.”
“I had power and no idea how to use it. I was a ruler who didn’t know how to lead. I was a twin who was on her own. I was a daughter with missing parents. I had a half dozen suitors and wasn’t sure how to be in love.”
Source: The Crown
“I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.”
“I had prepared myself for him to be short, as the press make a big deal out of how diminutive he is, but he was taller than I am by a couple of inches, and seemed to be comprised entirely out of charisma, teeth, and glistening chestnut hair to rival an Irish setter.”
Source: I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
“I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of Christians who had faced similar pains and temptations to surrender and thought how I might adapt their experiences. Many who had not so prepared themselves were crushed by suffering, or deluded into saying what they should not.”
“I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.”
“I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.”
“I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.”
“I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.”
“I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.”
“I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive”
“I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.”
“I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling 'Gee, I'd rather be at home than at work', and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave. I'd wake up some days and go "Oh, I don't even know if I want to go face this anymore". I would, I would go do it, I'm a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.”
“I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.”
“I had proven, as a very young man, that power was my weakness and my temptation. It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ~ Albus Dumbledore”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was an editor at Oxford at that time. We connected at a conference and over the course of lunch she told me about a wonderful new series she had just developed called Understanding Research.”
“I had PubLIZity, I had Oh, Hello, I had Bobby and Farley - all of these sketches that were really these duo sketches, but the relationship between them is really what catapulted them forward. A lot of that, I think, came from Wayne and Garth, these two similar guys - they're Midwestern metal guys - but in the end, they're quite different because there's an alpha and a beta. And I think that model became very present for me on Kroll Show.”
“I had put all my faith in the wrong person. It was all my fault but still there was no forgiveness for I was the victim myself. And only I could forgive the victim.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.”
“I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.”
“I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.”
“I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.”
“I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.”
Source: Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]
“I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'
Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its glittering bridges and orangeries, even if the birthplace of ballet.
'I had rather been a meteor, than a star in a crowd.”
Source: Margaret the First
“I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.”
“I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.”
Source: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3
“I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.”
Source: The Time Machine
“I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.”
“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”
“I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.”
“I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.”