I Quotes
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“I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.”
“I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.”
“I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.”
“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.”
“I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.”
“I'd very much like to be Ava Gardner. She IS sex.”
“I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.”
“I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.”
Source: Half a Life: A Memoir
“I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.”
Source: Stars and Gods
“I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.”
“I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.”
“I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I'd walk into the school, smell that institutional smell of the tomato soup, peanut butter, disinfectant, and boys room. Pass the lunchroom, see the familiar lunchroom lady with the white dress and net on her hair. At the end of 50 years of distinguished service the Board of Education gives her a bronze net - with her name on it. It stems from the Board of Education rule to keep her hair out of the food.”
“I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.”
“I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”
Source: My Prison Without Bars
“I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.”
Source: Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts
“I'd want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of America.”
“I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real”
“I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. But career-wise, I'd say I'd want to have something most like Madonna.”
“I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.”
“I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.”
“I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.”
“I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.”
“I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.”
“I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.”
“I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.”
“I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.”
“I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.”
“I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.”
“I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".”
“I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.”
“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”
“I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.”
“I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.”
“I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.”
“I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
“I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.”
“I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help," "Why not?" "My lady, you make your own luck.”
Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study
“I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.”
Source: Vampire Kisses 8: Cryptic Cravings
“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
Source: Book of Disquietude
“I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.”
“I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.”
“I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.”
“I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.”
“I'd work on my game online and at casinos, build my bankroll, find good games, and try to put myself in a position to keep winning and earn a steady income.”
“I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.”
“I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.”
“I'd worked for Aaron Spelling before [Embraced] and I always felt like we had a nice connection. I pretty much walked in and looked at him like, "This is mine!" And by the time I was done with the audition, he was already speaking to me as if I had the role.”