#had

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#been #could #done #establishment #experiments

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#get #great #had #his #known

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that. ↗

— Stephen Root

#chance #direct #had #haven #i

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#had #managers #owners #realize #stupid

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#grew #had #i #know #money

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.' ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#back #constantly #control #creative #creative control

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business. ↗

— Diana Ross

#care #decide #family #few #had

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#classical training #consider #had #i #myself

I had a strong desire to write and some free time. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#free #free time #had #i #some

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring. ↗

— Philip Roth

#boring #college #direction #draft #everybody