Quotes starting with W Page 1995

“When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.”

Firsts Development Starting Studios Starting Out

Author:Lynda Obst

“When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.”

Young Protect Starting Studios Actresses Lawyer Agents Host Sharks Starting Out Publicists

Author:Francesca Annis

“When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.”

World Actors Stars Dying Thirds Starting Episodes Cowboy

Author:Bruce Dern

“When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.”

Writing Literature Influence Starting Butlers Eliot Yeats Great Influence Starting To Write

Author:Howard Nemerov

“When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.”

People Eye Known Style Cameras Starting August Helen Straight Up

Author:Derek Ridgers

“When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.”

Men Stills Young Pursue Young Man Aspiration Futility Circle Of Friends Precocious Futility Of Life

Author:Albert Einstein

“When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.”

Stills Helping Kids Age School Dad Garden Driving Concrete Yards Centre Tractors

Author:Rick Astley

“When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.”

Stills Wanted School High School California

Author:Tila Tequila

“When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.”

Stills War Cities New York Training Doctors New York City Korean Psychiatric Korean War Residency

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.”

Writing Stills School Happened Drawing Landscape Journal Diaries Notebook School Life Preps

Author:John Irving

“When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.”

Knows Stills Young Cooking Smell Escaping

Author:Julian Barnes

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“When I was still raw and unformed, everyone failed me. No one was permanent. Back home there were people with good parts to them, but on the whole, they couldn’t be relied on.”

Childhood Lonely Neglect

Author:Rebecca Makkai

Source: I Have Some Questions for You

“When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.”

Energy Careers Actresses

Author:Kirstie Alley

“When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.”

Way Play Use Feelings My Own Music Study Style Fit Instruments Jazz Guitar Patterns All Time Jazz Music Hamilton My Own Style

Author:Gabor Szabo

“When I was studying in 12th/ Intermediate Level in Ravenshaw College, I read the novel "Train to Pakistan" by the great writer Khushwant Singh. I read the struggles and sadness of the people from both sides of the border in the partition that happened in 1947. I am poet, and I believe in love and peace. We the homo sapiens are capable of great things, but let us not get narrow minded and hate each other. Our world needs more loving hearts.”

Inspirational Life Life Philosophy Love Quotes And Sayings World Peace Peace Quotes Partition Poets And Poetry

Author:Avijeet Das

“When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.”

Wanted School Voice Study Teacher Proud Singing Singers Championship Contests Secondary School

Author:Daesung

“When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.”

Life Moments Wanted Night Study Positive Glasses Architecture That Moment Bubbles Interiors One Night Pipe Playing Around

Author:Dale Chihuly

“When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”

People Choices Black Known Music Study Heard Technique Classic Concerts Intuitive Pianist

Author:Nina Simone

“When I was suddenly thrust into what everyone calls menopause (Orchids) earlier than my body planned, I decided someone needed to take charge on so many levels. It was time to not only change the vernacular, but to speak up and say "Hey! This isn't an old lady's disease! We aren't old! We are strong and dammit, we are beautiful and sexy too!”

Disease Aging Grandma Hormones Old Lady Menopause Aging Gracefully Orchids Grand Mother Change Of Life Hormonal Issues

Author:Lisa Jey Davis

Source: Getting Over Your Ovaries: How to Make 'The Change of Life' Your Bitch

“When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play Space Invaders. Then I fell in love with Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog and Yoshi on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.”

Thinking Play Kids Young Used Bits Space Gamer Invaders Bros Mario Nintendo Hedgehogs Atari Space Invaders Sonic The Hedgehog

Author:Amber Rose

“When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.”

Sleep Pleasure Silent Supposed To Be Awake Avoided

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“When I was sworn in as a judge of the court of appeals, I took an oath. I put my hand on the Bible and I swore that I would administer justice without respect to persons, that I would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I would carry out my duties under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”

Persons States Hands Law Justice Poor United United States Rich Judging Duty Equal Constitution Court Appeals Oath

Author:Samuel Alito

“When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like a bit of an outsider who had somehow taken over but didnt really belong in this nice palace. I secretly wondered if the real mayor would come back from vacation one day and call the police.”

Ifs Real Felt Bits Taken Nice Week One Day Police Vacation Outsiders Palaces Mayors Nashville

Author:Phil Bredesen

“When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.”

Thinking Firsts Said Stars Numbers Worry Singers Grades Arithmetic

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.”

Art Important Certain Angry Relevant Chapters Skip Art History Giotto

Author:Ali Banisadr

“When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.”

Given Practice Lessons Decided Casts Crew Oar Canoeing

Author:Jared Gilman

“When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo. So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.”

Form Teach Students Taught Bases Method Fundamentals Eight

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.”

Taught

Author:Kirk Franklin

“When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

“When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.”

Knows Class Know How Teaching Projects Photography Aim Cameras Harvard Cambridge

Author:Ann Beattie

“When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.”

Struggle Teaching Revolution University Implementation Tehran

Author:Azar Nafisi

“When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.”

Needs Trying Littles Said Bits Creative Teaching Students Little Bit

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“When I was teaching in Padua, my sister died. I've told you that. I went into the Scrovegni Chapel there to look at the Giottos and I felt nothing. But I made myself look. He painted that chapel in 1305. Dante visited him. And in the scene of the Slaughter of the Innocents is one of the first realistic depictions of human tears. How they leave a trail down the cheek and hang for a moment on the jaw before falling. Someone noticed, seven hundred years ago. Someone knew my pain. That's what you do. Pay attention. It's not for yourself. It's for someone seven hundred years from now.”

Writing Art Pain

Author:Andrew Sean Greer

Source: Less Is Lost

“When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.”

Deals Leader Alive Air Teaching Movement Kings Southern Boston Luther 1960s Great Leader Emerging

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.”

Mind Class Teaching Anxiety Anxious Of My Mind

Author:Seamus Heaney

“When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.”

Way Voice Five Tiny

Author:Lily Rabe

“When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.”

Years Reason Wanted Asks Ten Ask Me

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.”

Years Art Different Felt Stuff Missing Brother Dad Ten Moved My Dad Various Different Things Martial Arts Gave Up Judo Missing Out Kickboxing

Author:Scott Adkins

“When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.”

Party Streets Ten Sells Cinema Invited Popcorn

Author:Sophie McShera

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.”

Want Looks Fun Saws Groups Stage Ten Theatre Locals Mum Grease

Author:Michelle Ryan

“When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.”

Said Would Be Player Grew Ten Grew Up Seasons Soccer Comedian Essays Soccer Player Off Season

Author:Will Ferrell

“When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.”

Humor Funny Found Ten My Family Moved Twelve Grove Dysfunctional Family Illinois Downers

Author:Emo Philips

“When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the handwritten text. I recall some of the story, but it was a start into the world of writing.”

World Writing Book Stories Feelings Mother Wish Ten Recalls Writing A Book

Author:Franny Armstrong

“When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.”

Father Havens Ten Stranger

Author:Steven Wright

“When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.”

Want Force Air Building Directors Partners Pilots Air Force Drones

Author:Robert M. Gates

“When I was the first time for a job in New York, I saw Natalia Vodianova on an oversized billboard in Times Square on a Calvin Klein billboard.”

Firsts Jobs Saws New York First Time Squares Billboards Times Square

Author:Lara Stone

“When I was the little girl no one was adopting and I didn’t have the love of parents or the support of family, I found love in fairy tales. Today I write of love for that little girl & the many like her.”

Inspirational Inspirational Life Encouragement Inspirational Life Quotes Girl Power Inspiration Empowermentring

Author:Karen Keith

“When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.”

Ifs Wells Book Matter Stories Lasts Guy Stuff Simple Truth Is Draws Paid Drawing I Realized Comic Comic Book Halfway Sensational Uncomplicated Draftsman

Author:John Romita, Sr.

“When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.”

Should States Known Clothes Should Have Notion Size Stores Fats Department Department Stores Should Have Known Being Fat

Author:Hilary Mantel

Source: Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

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