I Quotes
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“I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.”
“I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was what it meant to be exiled and disinherited - to straddle closed borders, never whole anywhere. To remain in one place meant tearing one's limbs from another.”
Source: Against the Loveless World
“I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.”
“I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.”
“I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.”
“I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.”
Source: Self-portrait
“I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.”
“I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.”
“I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.”
“I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.”
“I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.”
“I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.”
“I knew I couldn’t let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.”
Source: Cielo Por Tu Luz
“I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.”
Source: Vendetta
“I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography
“I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.”
“I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .”
“I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.”
“I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.”
“I knew I’d be troubled, but who knew awhile meant forever?”
“I knew I'd claimed my own power, when I stopped asking others to approve, to endorse or to agree with me about anything.”
Source: 500 Confessions: To Rock Your World, Inspire Your Mind, Uplift Your Spirits & Soothe Your Soul, Book 2
“I knew I'd never have another moment like this. Just a single place in time where everything had come together to breathe in harmony. Time slowed and I had gathered all her restless strands in my hands; where I had come from, where I was and where I was going was one long thread as I emerged to make my way into the world.”
Source: One Long Thread
“I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that.”
“I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.”
“I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.”
“I knew I had a problem when I found myself saying, to my reflection, in my laptop screen, 'What has two gigantic thumbs and needs to quit social media?' 'This guy'... before bursting into laughter, then tears, then song: the main three things a human can burst into. The fourth being flames. Also the song was the British National Anthem and I don't know why.”
Source: James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media
“I knew I had become a successful author of quotes when my thoughts started appearing alongside those of Mark Twain, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Confucius, Buddha, and so many other notable people in history.”
“I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.”
Source: Country Girl
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
Source: Lolita
“I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.”
“I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive.”
Source: Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
“I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!”
“I knew I had not worked at nuclear facilities, although I do have memories of visiting a nuclear research facility in the UK. Could I have been exposed to nuclear radiation? Perhaps. I was living in the southwest USA. The USA waged a nuclear war with nature in the southwest from July 16, 1945 onward.”
“I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.”
“I knew I had to be in football, but I didn't know what that looked like. I made a pact with myself that I would stand up for that challenge. I had no idea how big that would be. There were no jobs for women in football, and my work was elsewhere, but I kept with my passion, and thankfully, it ended up opening up doors.”
“I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.”
“I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.”
“I knew I had to go out and perform. I had a lot of fans watching!”
“I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.”
“I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.”
Source: Someone Like You
“I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.”
“I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.”
“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”
“I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.”
Source: Expositions and Developments
“I knew I hadn’t been the most innocent of victims, but I didn’t deserve this. DC Smith stood and grinned at me as he thanked me and left the room, leaving me to cry and to ponder on his not very adept handling of the situation.”
Source: The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
“I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
“I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?”
“I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy.”
“I knew, I knew any proper, decent life was over. The word of a man like that was like a death sentence . . . I had known it all along, but it is a very different matter to know your sentence, and then to hear it spoken by your judge . . . Truest of all things, there was no one to help me, no one to stand at my side.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“I knew …….
I knew my secret had been unearthed and yet I had not known where it was buried. I had not the ranking to be privy to all their secrets.”
Source: Red Velvet Rose