I Quotes
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“I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff.”
“I was scared. Not of the writing – but of remembering. Of telling the truth about the moments I was still scared to speak about out loud. The drugs. The betrayal. The jail cell. The blood on the sheets. The men who hit me. The ones I went back to anyway. The shame. The silence. But I knew this was the right time. Because I finally didn’t care about being judged. I cared about being real. That was the day I realized – telling my story wasn’t about fixing the past. It was about finally letting it go.”
“I was scared of being trapped. Making a mistake. Needing someone. Scared of letting someone in, in case they let me down. In case they broke my heart.”
Source: One Good Thing
“I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.”
Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.”
“I was scared."
"Scared of death? That's natural."
"No . . . scared of everything else.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.”
“I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.”
“I was scared to death of these chickens, but I tried not to let Ira know that.”
Source: A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
“I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.”
“I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.”
“I was scared to touch the cables at the Desoto Solar Farm because I knew the electrical connections were loose and it may start a fire.”
“I was scared today, and what did I do? I called you. That’s how it’s always been. Whenever everything got to be too much, whenever I feel like everything is crashing down on me, I turn to you. You’re the one who keeps me safe, keeps me sane. At least I thought you did.”
Source: Who We Are
“I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.”
“I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.”
“I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?”
Source: The dark side of midnight: featuring The other side of midnight, Rage of angels
“I was scarred but I was not broken. Beneath my wounds I was still whole. Beneath my insecurities, beneath my pain, beneath my struggle, beneath it all, I was still whole.”
Source: A Different Blue
“I was scheduled to fight in November of 2008 in a kickboxing show called XMA. There were some controversies that happened between my management team as well as some of the promoters as far as setting up the fights. There was some talk of Ken Shamrock but nobody else had talked to Ken about it as far as the promoting.”
“I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.”
“I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.”
“I was scooped up against his chest, my legs dangling from the ground as though I was a child. “Do you ever wear clothes, doll?”
I shrugged. “Siret always makes them so tight that it’s much more comfortable this way.”
“Clever Siret.” I heard him murmur, but before I could say anything else, he did his flashing thing and everything went dark.”
Source: Seduction
“I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.”
“I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.”
“I was screaming infidelities, but by infidelity I meant unfaithfulness to myself in regards to my desire for someone to love me.”
“I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.”
“I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.”
“I was searching for myself in order to find "YOU”
“I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.”
Source: The Two Cultures
“I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.”
“I was seconds from taking you to the ground and becoming a very, very bad guard.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“I was seduced by her beauty, my Lady. I was weak and she took advantage."
"You are a fool.”
Source: Archangel's Enigma
“I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.”
Source: Life Force
“I was seduced by the idea that even in the dark, we are still as complex and detailed as we are in the light.”
Source: Escape
“I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.”
“I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.”
Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files
“I was seeing a lot of articles on how good the Florida Babcock Ranch Solar Power Farm was in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, but none on the DeSoto Solar Farm which was the biggest solar farm in the USA in 2009, opened by President Obama.”
“I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.”
“I was seeing everything through pain.”
“I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.”
“I was seeing in these awkward composites my own liminal self. The two sides of me that were slammed together against their will, that refused to mix. I was a failed hybrid, made up of unalloyed selves. My Russian mother who regretted marrying my Sudanese father. My African father who came to hate his white wife. My atheist mother who blotted out my Muslim heritage. My Arab father who gave me up to Europe without a fight. I was the freak. I had been told so and I had been taught so and I had chewed on this verdict to the extent that, no matter what, I could never purge myself of it entirely.”
Source: The Kindness of Enemies
“I was seeing indoor workers as opposed to streetwalkers and from what I hear, drug use is much more prevalent among streetwalkers then it is with girls who are escorting.”
“I was seeing more stars than Patrick Moore; he didn’t half give me a sore fucking whack on the nut.”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.”
“I was seeing something I didn’t understand and did not want to.
No I wasn’t. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.”
Source: Bilgewater
“I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.”
“I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real”
“I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.”
Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think thats what really started me off.”
“I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.”