I Quotes
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“I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!”
“I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.”
“I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits.”
“I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.”
“I never wear the same shoe twice.”
“I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.”
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
Source: An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey. The amateur emigrant. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays
“I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.”
“I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.”
“I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.”
“I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.”
“I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate up to my bedroom. I knew they must have thought me aloof, or a little bit eccentric, or maybe even unkind, but I didn't care. Once the kitchen door swung shut behind me, I was alone, and so everything was okay.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“I never went for the talkers.”
Source: Love You Hate You Miss You
“I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty pageants for the experience, and to show my brains and talent and help break stereotypes. It wasn't like, "Oh, I'll become a star. I'm beautiful." I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup. When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have.”
“I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.”
“I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.”
“I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else." That's a hopeless gig.”
“I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.”
“I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.”
Source: Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business
“I never went into business to make money.”
“I never went into it [the business] thinking 'I'm a female sports reporter'. I just went into it thinking 'I'm a sports reporter'. No chip on the shoulder, no feeling like a victim when you walk in, no feeling entitled when you walk in. You've just got to do your job and work extremely hard. I think it's very basic. There's no magic to it. I think honestly it comes down to how badly do you want it. How hard are you willing to work?”
“I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.”
“I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.”
“I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.”
“I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.”
“I never went out looking for glory.”
“I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.”
“I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.”
“I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.”
“I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.”
“I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.”
Source: One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
“I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.”
“I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.”
“I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.”
“I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.”
“I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.”
“I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.”
“I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.”
“I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.”
“I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.”
“I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.”
“I never went to church as a child. I did not .”
“I never went to church when I was in college, either.”
“I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.”
“I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.”
“I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.”
“I never went to college, so I went to the library.”
“I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.”