I Quotes
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“I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.”
“I was approached by Neville Wakefield. I've known Neville for almost a decade, but we had never really worked together. We sort of threatened to work together on a number of other projects but never really did.”
“I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician”
“I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.”
“I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.”
“I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.”
“I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.”
“I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'”
“I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.”
“I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.”
“I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.”
Source: Roughing It
“I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.”
“I was around New York at a time when independent cinema was at its peak and became kind of popular and mainstream. It got some hype, culturally. After that, studios started to have independent companies within their studio system, and they found bigger stars willing to do new material. That's kind of what it's turned into.”
“I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.”
“I was aroused for 24 hours straight!”
“I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.”
“I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.”
“I was arrested for a joke, and executed for a clap.”
Source: Plotless
“I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.”
“I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.”
“I was arrested three times and tortured once.”
“I was arrogant. It's a classic story of hubris. I'm like Icarus whose wings melted before he could fuck the sun.”
“I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.”
“I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.”
“I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.”
“I was as depressed as I have ever been in my life.”
Source: The Secret History
“I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.”
Source: the big sleep
“I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].”
“I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.”
Source: First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man
“I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.”
“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then to resent her for it.”
Source: The Crane Husband
“I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.”
“I was as much scared as angry, but where does a slave put anger? We could be angry with one another; we were human. But the real source of our rage had to go without address, swallowed, repressed.”
Source: James
“I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.”
“I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.”
Source: Calling Me Back
“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.”
Source: Iron Fey Series Volume 2: The Iron Knight\Iron's Prophecy\The Lost Prince\The Iron Traitor
“I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.”
“I was ashamed of myself when i realized life was a costume part, and i have attended with my real face.”
“I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.”
“I was asked a series of questions.
What did you see? Why are there no files in the video archives? How did the assassin escape?
I lied every time.”
Source: When You Were Pixels
“I was asked about an emotional hack for letting go... Here's the truth; They are NEVER going to be sorry enough... You want THEM to bleed from the cut they gave YOU. It doesn't work that way. When you realize this, you can finally save your emotional energy and free yourself from the burden of holding a grudge... You can move on.”
“I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.”
“I was asked by a concerned church-goer: "Is your relationship with God okay?" and I answered "My relationship with God is far better than yours. You have to be in a certain place, with a certain group of people, pray at certain days of the week, read the Bible at certain times of the day; all in order to have a relationship with God. But I am with God from the moment I wake up, to the moment I fall asleep at night, I am with God wherever on this earth that I wander to, and whosoever I may be with! I may be sitting on the subway, and I am with God. I can assure you that I am closer to God than you are.”
“I was asked by a friend of mine if I knew anything about capitalism. I said sure. The first letter of the first word of any sentence is capitalized!”
“I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.”
“I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.”
“I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.”