I Quotes
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“I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.”
“I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.”
Source: The Moth Diaries
“I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.”
“I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.”
“I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.”
“I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as a promotion man at Def Jam to working records through my company. In 2000 I was asked to host a show in Norfolk VA and through that show I was then asked to host the morning show in Detroit. The concept of the show was around Hip Hop. We were active in the community and we wanted to do a local show that had a hip hop feel around it.”
“I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.”
“I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!”
“I have always been loved and hated for the same reason and by the same people.”
“I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights and privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground simply that they were members of this or that race, regardless of their own individual worth or attainments.”
Source: Up from Slavery
“I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.”
“I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.”
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”
“I have always been more interested in persons than in people.”
“I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.”
“I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of all the players, and delivering the most accurate service for our client.”
“I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
“I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.”
“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
Source: Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton
“I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”
“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”
Source: Political Speeches
“I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.”
Source: For Love or Loyalty
“I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.”
“I have always been one to encourage perseverance.”
“I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.”
Source: A Story Teller's Story
“I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.”
“I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy. I get antsy and annoyed if I am sedentary too long. I mix up exercise - yoga, Pilates, hiking, running, and weights. I also eat well. I do not eat meat or poultry - have not since I was eighteen.”
“I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.”
“I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.”
“I have always been proud to produce a fart so foul that it would clear a room. However, when I developed gastrointestinal disease, the farts were so pungent that even I had to leave the room!”
“I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.”
“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”
“I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.”
“I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.”
“I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.”
Source: Great Speeches by Mark Twain
“I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.”
“I have always been really picky about the films that I make, because I think that there's such an incredible opportunity to bring up questions when you're making movies, and some of my favorite films bring up big questions. They are movies that, when you walk away from it, it hits you as something deeper, and it's a great, fun way to be able to bounce around some of these harder concepts in our heads.”
“I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them.”
“I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.”
“I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.”
Source: Books in My Baggage: Adventures in Reading and Collecting
“I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.”
Source: Clapton: The Autobiography
“I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.”
“I have always been sensitive to vibrations and energies. Sometimes, I meet people and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I know that person is just wrong somehow. That their wiring is different, their moral compass screwed.”
Source: Botanical Malice
“I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.”
“I have always been so interested in film as a medium.”
“I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."”
Source: Curtain
“I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and deserved; but that is just another way of saying that Americans have overwhelmingly expunged from their public understanding the strongest and most clarifying resources out of ancient and traditional European cultures. By far we prefer our familiar and user-friendly parochialisms, and there is no percentage in trying to pry these pachydermal plates apart.”
“I have always been supported by the men in my life, which is why I think I've been successful in many of my endeavors. My father believed I could do anything. He even wrote to Al Gore and told him that he thought I should be his vice president.”
“I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.”
Source: Venus Envy