It took me a long time to blossom. Everyone else understood how to socialize and how to look. I didn't get the memo.

Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

E-40 taught me a long time ago to try different things with my voice, experiment, and only roll with it if it feels right.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

I thank Allah that I have been playing for Pakistan for a long time. This is a big honour for me; I had not even thought so.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

You will never see me on the bike or treadmill for long periods of time; I just use them for one-minute sprints between sets.

I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.

The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

It took me a really long time to get past all of that internalized dissociation with being female that I was being given by media.

I've been blocking people and unfriending people for a long time, and it doesn't take much if I feel like you've slighted me at all.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

The reality is that I've been counted out for a very long time and people continue to underestimate me and I continue to overperform.

India has introduced me to my ultimate passion - acting. I don't plan to give it up, and I intend to stay here for a long, long time.

Lord's is such a special place and to get my first and now my 500th wickets here is something that will live with me for a long time.

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

My friends are pretty used to me being an actor, and the ones who have known me for a long time don't make too big of a deal out of it.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

Somebody told me a long time ago that if everybody loves you, somebody's lying. It is the truest statement you could ever say to somebody.

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

My audience has accepted me for a long time as, you know, not a fat comedian but a comedian who happens to be fat. That's a huge difference.

The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That's the reason why the album is called '4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.'

I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

I have been obsessed with sunglasses for a very, very long time, so it was a natural fit for me to partner with Prive Revaux on my own collection.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Twenty years is a long time and it's been an incredible 20 years. I'm so grateful to 'Emmerdale' for what they have given me throughout that period.

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out.

I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

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