I Quotes
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“I was denying myself. I knew, but… I was faced with the past again, you know. To admit that I liked you, I had to also admit that I’m gay, and while I don’t have a problem with that…” He trailed off, sighing as he shook his head. “It’s confusing.”
“No, it’s not.” I took his hand and twined our fingers. For some reason, it felt familiar. “You don’t want to be the gay kid who made his father crash, but by admitting you like me, you had to face your past… like I do every day.”
Source: Rescued
“I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.”
“I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.”
“I was depressed because I was nothing. And I couldn’t become something again because I was depressed. I was stuck in quicksand.”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.”
Source: A Thousand Acres: A Novel
“I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.”
“I was depressed. I was just depressed. I did not want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler because I knew of the record.”
“I was desperate for a kiss, but I was terrified to kiss him. There was nothing I wanted more, and that was the terrifying part.”
Source: Love and Other Theories
“I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.”
“I was desperate. I had to keep Annabeth alive. I imagined all the bubbles in the sea—always churning, rising. I imagined them coming together, being pulled toward me.
The sea obeyed. There was a flurry of white, a tickling sensation all around me, and when my vision cleared, Annabeth and I had a huge bubble of air around us. Only our legs stuck into the water.
She gasped and coughed. Her whole body shuddered, but when she looked at me, I knew the spell had been broken.
She started to sob—I mean horrible, heartbroken sobbing. She put her head on my shoulder and I held her.
Fish gathered to look at us—a school of barracudas, some curious marlins.
'Scram!' I told them.
They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intentions.
They were about to start rumors flying around the sea about the son of Poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“I was desperate on Coming To America set - not to buy drugs or anything, but I had a person at home, a girlfriend who's telling you, "You're out the bills and food. You need this, you need that. And you either get it, or don't come back." That was me.”
“I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.”
“I was desperate.”
“That wasn’t the entire reason.” His low voice sounded like a purr. “You also had a taste for the devil.”
“I didn’t! I don’t!”
“You enjoyed cornering me, an infamous rake, in my own home with an offer I couldn’t afford to refuse. Don’t try to deny it— I know you well enough by now.”
Incredibly, despite her grief and worry, Evie felt a smile working up to her lips. “Perhaps I did enjoy it, for a moment,” she admitted.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“I was desperate to do more TV and film. Because I considered myself to be a theater creature. A theater animal. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life. Because it's something I can really do. I thought I was pretty good at it, and it's kind of stupid, but I was concerned that people would go, "Oh yeah, he's very good onstage, I'm not sure he can do television."”
“I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.”
“I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that.”
Source: Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
“I was desperate to work with Stuart Immonen, who I have talked with for several years about doing a project together. So just the stars aligned. I knew that Stuart had a little break in his schedule, where he would be willing to do a project with me. So this year I've been very lucky.”
“I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.”
“I was destined for Great Things, confirmed by a physical welling of promise I couldn’t deny or explain. One just knows these things. Like good luck, you have it or you don’t. I always knew I had it.”
Source: What Awaits?
“I was destined to express myself.”
“I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.”
“I was determined, ever since I was 16, that I would have the greatest adventure that any one person could ever have.”
“I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.”
“I was determined not to remain poor.”
“I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.”
“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.”
“I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.”
“I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.”
Source: Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life”
“I was determined to move forward.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.”
“I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings”
“I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.”
“I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.”
“I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.”
“I was diagnosed a thirteen. Paranoid got tacked on about a year later, after I verbally attacked a librarian for trying to hand me propaganda pamphlets for an underground communist force operating out of the basement of the public library. (She'd always been a very suspect type of librarian--I refuse to believe donning rubber gloves to handle books is a normal and accepted practice, and I don't care what anyone says.)”
Source: Made You Up
“I was diagnosed with a range of sleep disorders after leaving my extreme night shift job.”
Source: Night Shift Recovery
“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“I was diagnosed with absence seizures after a decade of high altitude work up to 13,796 feet.”
“I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.”
“I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.”
“I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.”
“I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.”
“I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.”
“I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.”
“I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers”
“I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.”
“I was diagnosed with seizures at age of forty five.”
“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.
Inside, though, I was already broken.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“I was different and people made fun of me.”