#had

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#better #bloody #find #going #had

I've always had great faith in people. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#faith #great #great faith #had #i

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover. ↗

— George Herman

#had #hoover #i #know #than

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#better #experiences #going #had #help

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#business #comfortable #covering #demonstrated #editors

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cold #editors #expected #get #had

I had been writing professionally since 1988. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#had #i #professionally #since #writing

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#generating #had #hollywood #houses #i

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creativity #dependent #directions #entirely #fiction