I Quotes
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“I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.”
“I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.”
“I was living in New York, so I just rode my motorcycle up to the set [of New Jack City]. So first day of work for me was kind of tough. I get ready to get off my bike, and I'm surrounded by the security guards, who were Louis Farrakhan's Nation Of Islam guys. Who had the double-breasted suits and guns. And this guy goes, "Where you goin'?" And I said, "I'm here to work." And they said, "No you're not." And I said, "Yeah. I'm here to work on the movie." And they said, "No you're not. Get on your bike."”
“I was living in the moment in which leaves of pain had not withered away and the seeds of new pain had not yet burst into bloom. I was living through the days in which light and darkness were still blending into grey.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“I was living in the moment that feminism came out of, and I think it's only through the work that women are doing today that they are making out better than men. So it's important that you are a feminist in your mind but that you have an attitude sometimes like men.”
“I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.”
“I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.”
“I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die”
“I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.”
“I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.”
“I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.”
“I was living with this sense that there was something going on, something important, but I didn't know what it was. It was like...I knew the secret was there, and it was a dark one, but I just couldn't reach it. Nearly drove me mad.”
Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.”
“I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.”
“I was lone working on the most dangerous electrical equipment I had encountered in my career at the Desoto Solar Farm.”
“I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.”
Source: Country Girl
“I was lonely all right. I was lonely for that big ass standing beside me.”
Source: Post Office
“I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
“I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same.”
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
“I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.
It was years before I woke up without that longing for a face pressed against my breast, an arm about my shoulder. The sense of loss was there.
I never was so unhappy, never felt so great the sense of loneliness. No matter how many times I gave up mother, father, husband, brother, daughter, for His sake, I had to do it over again.
Tamar is partly responsible for the title of this book in that when I was beginning it she was writing me about how alone a mother of young children always is. I had also just heard from an old woman who lived a long and full life, and she too spoke of her loneliness”
Source: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice
“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being confronted with every possible kind of
obstacle and discrimination. It meant being told that if you want to race with men, you’d have to do it with your hands and legs cut off. I started to wish I had been born somewhere—anywhere—else.”
Source: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
“I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.”
“I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.”
Source: House Rules: A Memoir
“I was lonely.
I had been lonely, I realised, for a very, very long time.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.”
“I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.”
“I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.”
Source: Lyrics:1962-2012
“I was looking at a bottle of water; they have nutritional facts printed on the side. You know, I'm no chemist, but I have a rough idea what's in water.”
“I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.”
“I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.”
“I was looking at buying a home when I lived in Florida in 2009. I was looking at homes next to the Peace River and in Lake Suzy next to lakes. I am so thankful I never bought one!”
“I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.”
“I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.”
“I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?”
“I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.”
“I was looking at the light. I was looking at the light, this morning.”
“I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.”
“I was looking at the Trump hits on me, I have to confess, all of which made me laugh. And I thought, you know, he never goes after guys` looks. He only does the looks thing with women. And then I found this one. "Lawrence will soon be off TV, bad ratings, he has a face made for radio." So, he has gone after, at least one guy, on looks.”
“I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.”
“I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.”
“I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.”
“I was looking for acceptance, love, and that's why I became present in everything I did.”
“I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"”
“I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.”
“I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.”
“I was looking for it," Eliza said. "For the tír fo thuinn. The land beneath the waves."
As if she might find Mam there, like the merrow from her childish story.”
Source: The Sirens
“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”
Source: Invisible Man
“I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.”
“I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.”
“I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.”