#knew

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #answer #direct #direction #films

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#causes #children #get #had #help

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. ↗

— Alan Alda

#assumed #badly #because #box #corner

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#am #before #even #greatest #i

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#because #even #go #going #had

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#although #ancient #ancient times #born #catholic

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#any #because #day #dough #going

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. ↗

— Marc Almond

#apart #being #cliches #go #images

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#capital #capital punishment #exposing #full #gave

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#dune #i #knew #lot #make