I Quotes
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“I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.”
“I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.”
“I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.”
“I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.”
Source: New Moon
“i was music
but you had your ears cut off”
Source: Milk and honey
“I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.”
“I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.”
“I was my own buddy in camp.”
“I was my own most persistent ghost, and I had grown weary of her haunting.”
Source: The Jasad Heir
“I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I could destroy it without damaging myself in the presence of others. In that sense I was my own clay. I formulated myself, I mated with myself, and I gave birth to myself. And my real self was the product - the polaroids.”
“I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.”
“I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”
Source: the bell jar
“I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.”
“I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.”
Source: The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Antiquities of the Jews. With the life of Josephus
“I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”
Source: The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
“I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.”
“I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.”
“I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.”
“I was naked and he had more possessions than he could use all at once. I was the proletarian, he was the capitalist, and my relations to him were reduced to the basic proposition of all revolutions: die, I want what you have. It was the first time in my life I'd taken an interest in politics.”
Source: Mortal Leap
“I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.”
Source: Ten Below Zero
“I was named after my mother's maiden name.”
“I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.”
Source: Home: a memoir of my early years
“I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.”
“I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.”
“I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.”
“I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.”
“I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.”
“I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.”
“I was named Margaret Yvonne - Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.”
“I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.”
“I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.”
“I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.”
“I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.”
“I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.”
“I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.”
“I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."”
“I was near-delirious. Gazing up at the pillared skyline, I knew that I was surveying a tremendous work of man. Buying myself a drink in the smaller warrens below, in all their ethnic variety (and willingness to keep odd and late hours, and provide plentiful ice cubes, and free matchbooks in contrast to English parsimony in these matters), I felt the same thing in a different way. The balance between the macro and the micro, the heroic scale and the human scale, has never since ceased to fascinate and charm me. Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in that air which made one think—made me think for many years—that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.”
“I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.”
“I was nearly christened Eric Bloom Strike,' he said and Robin choked on her water. He laughed as she coughed into a napkin. 'Let's face it, Cormoran's not much bloody better. Cormoran Blue—'
'Blue?'
'Blue Öyster Cult, aren't you listening?'
'God,' said Robin. 'You keep that quiet.'
'Wouldn't you?”
Source: Career of Evil
“I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.”
“I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.”
Source: THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_
“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
“I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.”
Source: House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4
“I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.”
“I was neither a victim nor a prisoner, even though I lived like one, and there were days when the loneliness and loss tore at my heart. My voice, my song, my essence were mine and mine alone.”
Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.”
“I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.”
“I was nervous about playing a lead part in a Working Title romantic comedy and I was also nervous about the fact that I not only had to take my clothes off, but get my willy out. There's certain things you can do to make yourself look better, but there's nothing you can do about your willy. Your willy is your willy and no amount of working out is going to make your willy look any different. You get what you're given. But I wanted to look my best and to whip myself into any semblance of handsomeness. And that was hard going.”
“I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.”