I Quotes
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“I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.”
“I was so tired of being at hospitals. It felt like a
curse that people close to me kept ending up here.”
Source: A Most Important Year
“I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamned reason to be sad. And I just think you ought to have a reason. My girlfriend dumped me, so I'm sad. I got caught smoking, so I'm pissed off. My head hurts, so I'm cranky. She never had a reason, Pudge. I was just so tired of putting up with her drama. And I just let her go. Christ.”
“I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.”
“I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.”
“I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.”
“I was so touched by her—all alone out there in Oklahoma, so far from home and everything she knew. When you meet someone really special, you know it right away, as I did with Simone.”
Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
“I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.”
“I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.”
“I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't believe it."”
“I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!”
“I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.”
“I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.”
“I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.”
“I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not quite there or you need to fix this about you. So I am honestly walking in faith every single day that I am going to be able to handle whatever God has for me. I am not used to being in a place where people appreciate my work and understand my work and want to be a part of my work and getting something out of my work because for so long it was so misunderstood. The success part for me is the hardest part and everyday I'm still battling.”
“I was so untutored as to suppose that all I had to do was to think out what was right and express it fearlessly.”
“I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.”
“I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.”
“I was so used to being caught in the tides, but the moon always untangled me. The moon has always been here with me, and I am forever grateful. The stars left a trail as I follow it to a selfless soul. The night sky was darker than the deep blue sea, but I was granted a night light from the shooting stars.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.”
“I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.”
“I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.”
“I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.”
Source: Orphan Number Eight
“I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.”
“I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.”
“I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.”
“i was so woried about wat i woud become in the future that i didnt realize i can be anything i want to be right now”
Source: Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
“I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.”
“I was so worried that you wouldn’t want to know me once you found out.” I signed, relief flooding through me. “Are you kidding me?” Xavier reached out and curled a lock of my hair around his finger. “Surely I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world.” “How do you figure that?” “Isn’t it obvious? I’ve got my own little piece of Heaven right here.”
“I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.”
“I was so young when I was born.”
“I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.”
“I was sober enough to have a conscience, but not sober enough to actually use it. Trapped in this numb body, floating somewhere between clarity and oblivion.”
“I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.”
“I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”
“I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.”
“I was somebody who was 14 years old and who got an opportunity to do a job where I could make money, and, most important, to go to school and to help my family financially. And luckily I was successful in my job, thank God. And there were a lot of people my age who didn't have that freedom I had and I'm grateful.”
“I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous preconceived notions about what sexual category I fit into and realized that when you love someone, and they love you back, that's all that matters.”
Source: Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
“I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.”
“I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.”
“I was something else and that something was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub”
Source: Beloved
“I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.”
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
Source: My Ántonia
“I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.”
“I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It was the place lots of DJs came to get used and rare records. It had a lot of jazz, funk, Latin and seventies rock.”
“I was sometimes embarrassed about making it - people look at you in a different way. You become this rich guy with the house. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's, but I've sometimes felt set apart from the people I work with. They think, "You're rich - you don't have problems."”
“I was sometimes irritated by the unrelenting inquisitiveness and criticism, but there was no shortage of help or advice or just someone to talk to if I needed it. It was hard to imagine a foreigner descending on an English community and being welcomed with such immediate acceptance and hospitality.”
Source: It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
“I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.”
Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they`re part of the establishment.”