Quotes starting with W Page 1985

“When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.”

“When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.”

Hard My Own Television Welcome

Author:Jane Fonda

“When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.”

Activity Primaries Microsoft

Author:Bill Gates

“When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.”

“When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.”

Ifs Ideas Nice Advice Hair Bad Ideas Leave Me Alone Early 20s Perms

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.”

Brown Belts Early 20s

Author:Karen Bass

“When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.”

Ends Stuff Animation Imagery Early 20s Japanese Animation

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.”

Writing Years Book Problem Dream Wanted Novel Mystery Crime Favourite Crank Mystery Novels Early 20s

Author:Linwood Barclay

“When I was in my early 30s and appeared on CNN, Oprah, 20/20 and Entertainment Tonight, my loved ones didn’t say, “Good job!” My loved ones said, “The camera adds more than 20 pounds.” One detail-oriented aunt said “Not for nothing, but don’t wear red. You look like an ad for Red Lobster.”

Body Image Self Image Family Dynamics Body Shaming

Author:Gina Barreca

“When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.”

Self Bed Gun Suicide Decades Rage Forty Loaded Paranoia Loathing Self Loathing Loaded Gun

Author:Byron Katie

“When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.”

Made Listening Teens Secular Cult Listening To Music Secular Music

Author:Natalia Kills

“When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.”

Ends Remember Conclusion Teens

Author:Herbie Hancock

“When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.”

Thinking Art Building Twenties Strikes Concrete Posters Tenants

Author:Eric Drooker

“When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.”

People Thinking World Choices Realizing Wonderful Like You Companion Know Yourself

Author:Simon Van Booy

“When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, Oh, God, this is not right. When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.”

Stories Brother Mom Dad Doctors Twenties Asking My Mom My Brother

Author:Lauren Miller

“When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and thought that I knew all about driving. It was Christmastime, and my parents were living on a ranch in Wyoming. I picked up my two grandmot.”

Years Firsts Two Parent Car College Hundred Dollars Driving Eighteen Living On Utah Wyoming Old Car

Author:F. Burton Howard

“When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.”

Years Found Acting Class College Freshman Acting Classes Freshman Year

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.”

Philosophy Late Teens

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.”

Believe I Can Hands Today Chance Minutes Training Army Athlete Tiny Teenager Target Routine Throwing Accurate Load Israeli Rifles Smack Grenade Blindfolded Snipers Israeli Army

Author:Ruth Westheimer

“When I was in my single digits, I was subjected to the worst torture you can possibly inflict on a child: Catholic mass.”

Humor Religion Comedy Torture Catholicism

Author:Tyler Oakley

Source: Binge

“When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.”

Giving Art Sex Art Is Studios Damn

Author:Alice Neel

“When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.”

“When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.”

Issues Teens Ocd

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.”

Made Age Turns Comfortable Teens Predictions Appraisal

Author:Arthur Nersesian

Source: The Fuck Up

“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”

Book Hours Twenties Broke Meals Good Book

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.”

Firsts Spiritual Guy Teacher Relationship Heard Advice Love You Husband First Time Twenties Making Love This Guy Boyfriend Sexually Spiritual Teachers Machu Picchu

Author:Woody Harrelson

“When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.”

Twenties Bulletproof

Author:Moby

“When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.”

Felt Horse Twenties Riding Cliffs Wild Horses

Author:Chaka Khan

“When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.”

Sides Paid Showbiz

Author:Ice Cube

“When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.”

Needs Trying Ends Matter Next Sides Brain Half Figures Products Personality Paid Clubs Coming Out Showbiz

Author:Ice Cube

“When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.”

Goes On Billions Video Salt Bartending

Author:Pauley Perrette

“When I was in Nashville, I went to our Macy's and went and tried on all the Hannah Montana stuff. Then I said, 'This is weird, I'm wearing my face.'”

Said Faces Stuff Nashville Montana Macy's Hannah Montana

Author:Miley Cyrus

“When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on”

Made Body Music Necks Shops Nashville Tennessee Racks

Author:Eric Clapton

“When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."”

“When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.”

Inspirational Years Two Left Acting Class New York Involved Speech Army Theater Wings Dance Two Years Fencing

Author:James Earl Jones

“When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.”

“When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.”

Littles Havens New York Safe Boxes Passing Passings Rats Mazes Passing Through Safe Haven

Author:Bruce Conner

“When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until 1976 and then went off the air. But also I was listening to Long John Nebel. Now, Long John was what Art Bell and George Noory do now.”

Long Art Night Air New York Listening Art Is Bells

Author:Paul Laffoley

“When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.”

Film Study New York My Friends Doctors Scripts Fascinated Filmmaking Corrections

Author:Arjun Rampal

“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

Actors House Stage Car New York Summer Garage Making A Living Stage Actors

Author:William H. Macy

“When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'”

Knows Doe Said Helping School Teacher Mom Dad Husband My Mom Nurse Pregnant Nursery Your Husband Your Dad Nursery School

Author:Natalie Portman

“When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.”

Years Littles Two School Film Felt My Own New York Two Years Taxi Own Business Film School Nyu

Author:Todd Phillips

“When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and I tried to find ways to work with them. I think the Democrats should do that, and just keep trying to lower the temperature.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Republican Office Democrat Affection Admiration Temperature Keep Trying Admiration And Respect

Author:William J. Clinton

“When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.”

Done Party Office Fundraising Treasurer

Author:John Major

“When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.”

Flow Paris Refugee Very Sad Sad Times

Author:Elliott Carter

“When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.”

Jobs Night Lost Car Owners Abandoned Payment Philadelphia Garage 1930s Very Sad

Author:Tom Glazer

“When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.”

Life Inspirational Happiness Inspirational Quotes Inspirational Life Living Inspirational Attitude Being Happy

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.”

Feelings Talking Tree Losing Productions Hearing Designer Colour Cinematographers Losing Control

Author:Steve Buscemi

“When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.”

School Fun Boys Tree Holes Primaries Nightmare My Best Friend Washing Trousers Primary School

Author:Maisie Williams

“When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.”

Would Be Lord Millions Drug Computer Prison Cash Manipulate Computer Systems

Author:Kevin Mitnick

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