Idris Elba quote: "I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices."

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the...
IDRIS ELBA

It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do wel...
GABRIELLE UNION

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already ...
KELLY CLARKSON

I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun...
CHARLES SOULE

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and wo...
EYDIE GORME

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON

I love people. I was born loving people.
BETSY PALMER

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the ...
ROBERT SMITH

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learn...
TATE TAYLOR

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that t...
BOY GEORGE

I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short...
VICTOR GARBER

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.
ERIC CLOSE

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world m...
FRITZ PERLS

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in ...
CLAIRE DANES

I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex a...
ELAINE PAGELS

I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI

I was hurt, like, really hurt. The next day, I was sick all day, didn't want to talk to anybody, did...
DAVID CLOWNEY

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE

I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA

I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER

I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON

I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL

I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON

Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN

Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY

I hate smug people.”
Ros laughed. “That you do. And so you’re using his phone. He’ll ex...
KELLY BATTEN

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set...
JESSICA HAHN

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happene...
VANESSA FERLITO

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I thin...
EMILY MORTIMER

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'...
EDDIE MARSAN

I pick up on other people's discomfort.
CARICE VAN HOUTEN

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
DOUGLAS WOOD

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a ...
GARTH ENNIS

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edi...
TOM HIDDLESTON

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I alwa...
CHRIS STAPLETON

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Ro...
TINA FEY

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
IDRIS ELBA

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten...
GAYLE KING

It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this ...
LATOYA LONDON

I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given c...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I rem...
HANK AZARIA

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b...
JACKI WEAVER

I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was s...
BIRDY

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING

My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that&...
RICHARD MADDEN

I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome....
LEA MICHELE

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes,...
MICHAEL EASTON

I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.
LEONARD NIMOY

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
ROMY SCHNEIDER

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li...
GORE VIDAL

I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device s...
QUESTLOVE

I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I cou...
KIMBERLEY NIXON

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I ...
NEON HITCH

When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'W...
LEVI MILLER

I had all this other life happening, and 'Lost' was this sort of seasoning - but it was neve...
SONYA WALGER

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I...
PETER CAPALDI

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi...
SPIKE LEE

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin ...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA

When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to ...
GEOFFREY CANADA

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gon...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ...
BEN BERNANKE

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism bac...
RUSSELL PETERS

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could p...
DAVID CRONENBERG

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day...
CESAR ROMERO

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come...
KARL LAGERFELD

I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to ...
LEWIS HAMILTON

Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's wor...
JORDIN SPARKS

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I...
ROSE MCGOWAN

Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite game...
KINA GRANNIS

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was '...
IKE BARINHOLTZ

I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should...
PAULA DEEN

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that...
VANILLA ICE

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I wo...
ADRIA ARJONA

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
KLAUS KINSKI

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life cris...
FIONA MCINTOSH

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't re...
ALEX GRAVES

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

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