Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about attention, games, home
I decided that I was going to do something totally different so that nobody could say that this (new project) wasn't as good as The Guess Who. They may not like it, but I didn't want to be compared.Quote by Randy Bachman about good, good luck
I knew that a name didn't have to describe the music and yet the name becomes the music; the music goes with it.Quote by Randy Bachman about music, name
I knew that I would always be a second-rate Guess Who because I didn't have all of the elements and machinery working on my own, which took (The Guess Who) about eight or nine years to get going.Quote by Randy Bachman
When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.Quote by Randy Bachman about body, bad luck, bad, work, time
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.Quote by Floyd Abrams about law, books, common sense, sense
The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.Quote by Victoria Abril about clothes, things
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors, work
People asked me after JFK what I believed, and I didn't care. You presume that people are on the side of their films' beliefs, but that's just not always the case.Quote by Kevin Bacon about nation, people
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.Quote by Douglas Adams about thinking, mind
The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.Quote by Derek Bailey about companies
In Russia, we didn't have to pay for coaching. Here, in America, I left Galina and I went back to my old coach, Valentin Nikolayev, because he was my coach who prepared me for the 1994 Olympics.Quote by Oksana Baiul about old, olderness
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.Quote by Russell Baker about city
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.Quote by Russell Baker about suspicion, writers, writing, real estate, work, things
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.Quote by Honoré de Balzac about existence
When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.Quote by Drew Barrymore about perfection, time, people
I liked the fact that I didn't have to worry about being brought up for cheating, but it was kind of a pain to turn it into the Web site.Quote by Kim Basinger about cheating, worry, pain, being