#knew

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#i #images #knew #me #movie

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#happen #history #knew #littered #never

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#exactly #going #happen #i #i always

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#could #dean #dialogue #films #heart

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#attract #average #average person #because #critics

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#actually #fantasized #happen #i #knew

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#could #discovering #dozen #ever #half

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#adopt #alone #decided #even #growing

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#apart #away #brother #cathartic #chance

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly. ↗

— Della Reese

#i #knew #limbs #lost #scared