#had

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#character #daughter #daughters #elder #had

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history. ↗

— Harold Perrineau

#been #before #bit #feel #few

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#baseball #basketball #boring #could #day

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. ↗

— David Petraeus

#casualties #comes #countries #denmark #find

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#father #had #hank #hank williams #ravel

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#ago #any #budget #camera #chance

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#coming #doctor #done #during #five

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#been #grown #had #instead #logical

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#did #done #dream #film #friend

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#arrested #ask #carried #deciding #had