I Quotes
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“I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.”
“I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.”
“I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.”
“I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”
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“I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.”
“I didn't know I got criticism.”
“I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.”
“I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”
“I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.”
“I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.”
“I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.”
“I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. This was in the late '70s, early '80s, so it wasn't like today, where you kind of know all about the industry. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.”
“I didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four.I did it at the beginning because my brother did it before me and it was a hobby. I didn't mind doing it. But then it got more serious.”
“I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.”
“I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.”
“I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters - but I got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not hers, incidentally.”
“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.”
“I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.”
“I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.”
“I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America”
Source: Americanah
“I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.”
“I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.”
“I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.”
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“I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."”
“I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.”
Source: Native Son
“I didn't know if he really meant talk, make out, or something else completely, but I'd be happy with any of them.”
Source: Kiss of Frost
“I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.”
“I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”
“I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.”
Source: Something from the Nightside
“I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.”
“I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.”
“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”
“I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.”
“I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.”
“I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.”
“I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.”
Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door
“I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!”
Source: Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I didn't know Johnny Depp could act until he played me.”
“I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.”
“I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.”
“I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.”
“I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.”
“I didn't know Michael Heizer until I was preparing for my "Earthworks" show in 1968, and somebody called and told me to look at his work. Heizer had already made land art before any of the others and was deeply into it. But he was very young and working out West, so I wasn't aware of his work until he came and showed it to me.”
“I didn't know much about golf growing up.”
“I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.”
“I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.”
“I didn't know much about video games.”
“I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.”
“I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.”