Quotes starting with W Page 2006

“When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years.... "When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting...”

Character First Impressions Good Qualities

Author:Daleen Van Tonder

“When I was younger there was something in me. I had passion. I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something-and I still feel it. It's this little engine that roars inside of me and I just want to keep going and going.”

Want Feels May Littles Stills Passion Known Keep Going Engines

Author:Sheila Johnson

“When I was younger, thinking about whether I wanted children, I always came back to this formula: if no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends. I would have invented sex, friendship, art. I would not have invented child-rearing.”

Children Feminism Child Rearing

Author:Sheila Heti

Source: Motherhood

“When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.”

Giving Mom Picks My Mom Jam Grapes Jars Arbors

Author:Taylor Swift

“When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.”

People Hands Care Film Audience Serving I Care Feeding Catering

Author:Steven Spielberg

“When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.”

People Ifs Form Political Humanity Band Correlation

Author:Win Butler

“When I was younger, definitely getting people to listen to me and believe in me. I think it's hard when you're a young girl in a record label full of male urban artists, which is definitely what Atlantic Records was and still is. Also, getting people to trust a young, female pop star that doesn't just want to be puppeteered was definitely a challenge for me.”

People Thinking Believe Artist Girl Challenges Female Believe In Me Urban Listen To Me

Author:Charli XCX

“When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

People Want Wanted Pieces Want Me Spotlight

Author:Jane Lynch

“When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'”

Beautiful Watches Comedy Crazy Adults Teenager

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.”

Figures Remembered Legends Skating Figure Skating

Author:Michelle Kwan

“When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.”

Children Use Dies Water Chickens Vegetables New Orleans Potatoes Sauce Coffins Oysters Fried Food

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.”

Writing Book Enjoy Rooms Walking Exercise Sitting Desks Avoided Bothered Marking Time

Author:Maeve Binchy

“When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted, as long as I exercised; or if I didn't exercise and just watched what I ate, I'd maintain. Now I have to do both.”

Ifs Long Wanted Exercise

Author:Michelle Obama

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

Age Remember Growing Up Pieces Happened Aging Birthday Faculty Criminal Mind 50th Birthday Birthdays And Aging Funny Old Age Birthday Happy Birthday Age And Youth Young Birthday Things Past

Author:Mark Twain

Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

“When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.”

People Children Different Enough Faces Hurt Race Hair Couple Red Prejudice Fats Comment Tease Had Enough Red Hair Ginger Different Races

Author:Lily Cole

“When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.”

Years Shows Deals Known Taught Tvs Couple Peers Tv Shows Derision

Author:Richard Madden

“When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.”

Way Want Feels Two Ideas Self Sometimes Brain Destruction Calm Horrible Upset Feel Better Self Destruction Self Harm Very Romantic

Author:Christina Ricci

“When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.”

Ifs Cameras Boat Take Me San Francisco Fisherman Docks

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was pretty young, and we were doing acting and improvisation. But no, no I didn't go to RADA, I didn't do that. But I do now work with an acting coach, primarily for the initial intellectual connection to the material.”

Young Actors Space Acting Materials Intellectual Connections Coaches Valleys Initials Improvisation

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.”

Knows Self Walks Know How Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Lil B

“When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.”

Thinking Way Different Realizing

Author:Temple Grandin

“When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.”

Actresses Aspiration

Author:Taissa Farmiga

“When I was younger, I didn't know who a lot of those people were because I couldn't watch any of their movies. I actually get way more starstruck now. I think starstruck is the wrong word - I get overly enthusiastic about who I work with.”

People Thinking Knows Way Watches Enthusiastic Wrong Words

Author:Liana Liberato

“When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.”

Knows Want Film Curious Film And Music

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.”

Want Tvs

Author:AnnaSophia Robb

“When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.”

Knows Should Film Actors Voice My Own Decision Creative Projects Artistic Just Listen

Author:James Franco

“When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was a long time ago). As I've gotten older, I've learned to enjoy putting sentences together, though I still believe that writing, unlike sex, is always better after you're through.”

Writing Believe Long Stills Together Sex Enjoy Long Time Excuse Sentences I've Learned Long Time Ago Typewriters I Still Believe

Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat

“When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Looks Heart Ideas Certain Strong My Heart Fit Clothes Appreciate Enjoyed Very Strong Old Woman

Author:Jennifer Beals

“When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.”

People Felt Rocks Duty Wake Up Rock N Roll

Author:Patti Smith

“When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.”

Realizing Walking Say Anything

Author:Adam Yauch

“When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.”

Felt Successful Pressure

Author:Lady Gaga

“When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.”

Purpose Felt Consciousness Successful Fans Changed Pressure Intention

Author:Lady Gaga

“When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.”

Years Felt Half Brother Regard Fortunate Older Brother

Author:Rib Hillis

“When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.”

World Bigs Vision Changing The World

Author:Rick Danko

“When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.”

Years Firsts Art Made Form Interest Acting Fashion Painting Huge First Time Years Ago I Realized Impression Paris Collections

Author:Camilla Belle

“When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.”

Real Remember Used Force Player Football Shirts Parks Holiday Dominant Spain Close Friends Madrid Replica Real Madrid Family Holiday

Author:Gareth Bale

“When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.”

World States Moving Political Certain Father Knowing Car Being A Father

Author:Nick Frost

“When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.”

Nba

Author:Derrick Rose

“When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.”

Littles Bits Parent Plans Little Bit Exciting Rebel Establishment

Author:Amy Grant

“When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about. Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.”

Stories Hate My Own I Hate Mysterious Graveyard Spooky Tombstone Another Life

Author:Pseudonymous Bosch

Source: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series

“When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.”

Made Decision Havens Hindsight

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“When I was younger, I never had that fascination.”

Fascination

Author:Luke Evans

“When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Past Complexes Insecurity Laughed Sour

Author:Giorgio Armani

“When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk) And now? (Taryn) Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)”

Faces Battle Glory Your Face

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.”

Knows Wanted Figures

Author:William Fichtner

“When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and move things forward. And that fascinated me... I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life...”

Trying Said Book Moving Responsibility Progress Wonderful Media Cameras Nuclear Fascinated Frank Physicist

Author:Jeremy Gilley

“When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.”

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Stage Industry Embrace Imperfection Awkward Amplify Dorky

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.”

Long Courses Term Gone Plans Waste Adults Instinct Long Term Wasting Time

Author:Anderson Cooper

“When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.”

People Thinking Insecurity Insecure Intimidated

Author:Claire Forlani

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