Has Beens Quotes - Page 22

• The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

  Robert M. Gates

  United States, Century, Late

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• I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

  Rupert Grint

  School, Three, Four

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• I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

  Seth Gabel

  Romance, Challenges, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

  Tom Glazer

  Success, Careers, Way

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• My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

  Tom Glazer

  Dad, Epidemics, Years

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• My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

  Victor Garber

  Mother, New York, Moving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Names, Effort, Doctrine

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

  Bill Geist

  Reading, Men, Fleeing

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• I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

  Winston Graham

  Typewriters, Empathy, Creative

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• Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Father, Kids, America

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2011.

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• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

  Dave Hickey

  Want, London, Not Interested

  "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

  Dree Hemingway

  Dream, Sight, Perfect

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• There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

  Eve Hewson

  Auditions, Study, Could Have Been

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• I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

  Hunter Hayes

  Long, Fans, Huge

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• I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

  Joanne Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

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• I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

  Josh Hopkins

  Adults, Lucky, Actors

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• Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

  Katherine Helmond

  Thinking, Play, Age

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• I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

  Lena Headey

  Beautiful, Hate, Nice

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• People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

  Amanda Holden

  Couple, Flirty, Hate

  "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

  Chris Hughes

  Long, Journalism, Long Time

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• I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

  Chuck Hagel

  Israel, Supporter

  "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements" by Glenn Kessler, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

  Eric Holder

  Justice, Tactics, Execution

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• Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

  Gregory Harrison

  Kids, Singing

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• In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Art, New York, School

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• I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

  Jaime Hernandez

  Illustration, Done, Sides

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