I met a guy there who does a western cowboy program, and I thought that was something maybe we could do, too. I approached James with the idea and we decided to try it.
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Related With the incidents we had been having, I was talking to the lieutenant and thought it might be a goo... DONALD JOHNSON When that opportunity came (to go to Arkansas), I just wanted to look at it, ... They had approached... GEORGE PUGH Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I ... GREG MOTTOLA I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, ... RONNIE DUNN While I was working in Las Vegas, there was a lot of picture people who approached me and said I sho... CLINT WALKER We met in New Hope. I was a waitress, and Andy was building and roofing houses. WENDY CAIN When we first met with Schwarzenegger, we thought this was a moderate governor we could work with. T... DAVID SANCHEZ I never met anyone who thought this was a good idea. LARRY HERRIGHTY My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ... ATTICUS SHAFFER I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- ... J. G. BALLARD I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - t... J. G. BALLARD I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this. CHERYL TIEGS I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who k... KENNETH LANGONE Maybe I stop talking because I don't know what to say. Or maybe I stop because I finally get that so... HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK Dominick talked me into it. He thought it would be a good part. I wasn't that interested. I didn't t... CAROL VARNEY They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rode... MICHAEL BIEHN I really thought I was bringing something new to the table, both artistically and [as a producer], .... MICHAEL RITCHIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I finally get that sometimes we hold on to something - a person,a resentment, a regret, an idea of w... HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with ... OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'... CHARLIE PUTH It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movi... TERENCE STAMP I thought I was in their plans. When I met with coach [Andy] Reid at the end of the season, we talke... CORRELL BUCKHALTER I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thoug... GUY LAFLEUR I thought playing at Carolina would be a lot better and I went with it. Every time I get in there, I... DREW MARTIN I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A... MALORIE BLACKMAN Ben Harper came to us with some gospel songs in mind, and that worked. I thought that was a good ide... CLARENCE FOUNTAIN After the season it was, we were approached and (it was) something we had to think about and what I ... KRIS CHUCKO I was surprised that he was such a sweet guy. I thought he was going to be strange. But he could be ... MARIA BELLO I think the sidewalk program, I think we need to bring that back. I think that was a good idea. If w... GARRY THOMAS It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the... FLORENCE SEIDELMAN I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think it's just a change overall in our program, the way we approached spring ball, the way we app... MAURICE STOVALL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... I always wondered if I could write a novel, so I decided to try. I thought about writing a crime sto... GENE HUNT When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visi... ROBERT WILSON It's funny, because when I first met Andrei, I never thought that we could make something happen in ... BARRY ADAMSON I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had a... EVAN GLODELL When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my... MACKENZIE ASTIN I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singi... LESLEY ANN WARREN Both kids were gone, and we decided this was something we could do together. We got some of our frie... BETH JOHNSON My goal tonight was to play as a team. I thought they did that. We did the best we could to try to h... PAT DAVIS People are attracted to who we are more than what we do. LORRIN L. LEE I think a lot of people thought that was it. We've done everything we could do, and I think that wou... BRUCE PEARL We were asked to try to put together a grant package that would fund such a program, but we were tur... PATRICK ALLEN There was nothing I could do to try to reproduce it, so I did some symbolic illusions. . . . We had ... BROCK GILL We didn't really know where we were going [with the story] until we got there. In my past, I was in ... ADAM CARTER I thought it was a great idea and something really different. KARIN CARL When I saw that quote, I thought the same thing. I was studying Shakespeare at a university during t... BRIAN BELL That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM I couldnt kill myself, couldnt let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments... , THE PROGRAM. 2013 I don't know what point it was, but we decided not to defend any more. At some point we have to deci... DAMIEN WILKINS All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger a... BRYAN BURROUGH I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There ... ELMORE LEONARD Man, I thought we'd play better, but it's a new week and a new opponent. I would never have thought ... DUNTA ROBINSON My senior year, I lost a lot of weight. Maybe that's why. Maybe they thought I was too small or some... JAKE HUTTON I wanted to get a checking line out against the [Scott] Gomez line. I thought that if I could do tha... TOM RENNEY This is their program and I wanted to get them involved in every aspect of it. We offer other drawin... DAVID PIES Jay and I had a lengthy conversation and then I sat back and decided that Jay is the right guy for t... DAVE HEEKE I was excited. I thought with his ability to manipulate an audience and a smart piece of writing, we... CILLIAN MURPHY We had opportunities in the medium range passing game and didn't convert and maybe could have gotten... CONROY HINES I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was gettin... JAMES MARSDEN We could go small and play James at the five and Warren Carter or Brian Randle at the four. There's ... BRUCE WEBER I thought it was appropriate, ... I thought it was the least we could do for him. JAMES DAUGHERTY I guess it hit me in the wrong spot, right in the back of my shoulder. This weekend, I thought I was... ANTONE DEJESUS Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - t... OLIVIER THEYSKENS I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor wh... DAVE ADAMS I thought, 'Maybe I'll get in my truck and try to run him over,' but then I thought, 'He probably ha... CHARLES PARKER I thought, 'Maybe I'll get in my truck and try to run him over,' but then I thought, 'He probably ha... CHARLES PARKER Just to see Chris fight through the years with what was going on ... it was just something I thought... CHADD LITTLE I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous w... EDDIE VEDDER I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't e... CAROLYN STRAUSS I like these words for what they are and what they tell me. Regardless of any potential "motives".
W... WAKE UP! MESSAGE I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pret... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN turned off the BlackBerry before James could text back. I might hate electronic wizardry, but it was... BARBARA DELINSKY He brought back some photos of a Navajo rodeo. There were some rather marvelous shots of children an... MAX EVANS I had a cat I could not see, Because it stayed in back of me. It was a very loyal pet- PEGGY RATHMANN We told the computer program what performance the antenna should have, and the computer simulated ev... JASON LOHN We really created some chances, some pretty chances too, with drop passes, and we did what we wanted... DAVE PALMIERI Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a ful... CASEY STONER You dream and hope that you could do something like that, but I didn't imagine that it would happen.... PETE WENTZ I knew it was gonna be close, we both had a pretty good camp. Coach Robinson went with the guy he th... JOE FIELDS Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth a... RUTH BADER GINSBURG A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I... HERBIE HANCOCK Dennis and I and Crawford had a heck of a race. One minute, I thought Dennis was going to win. Then ... TED MUSGRAVE We were having trouble finding a guy to do the bow. There were a couple of mistakes up front one day... DENNIS CONNER I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or ... DAVID ANTIN I think each guy does a great job. Each guy brings his own personality to it. We haven't had anybody... MIKE RUCKER I never thought I could do this. Who knew I could do this? Not me. I just go after the hitters and t... CHAD CORDERO The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period... JAMES FRANCO I didn't play as much as maybe I thought I should or maybe I thought I would have. It wasn't the tot... CURT WHEELER My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn... SAM DONALDSON All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up a... DARWIN WALKER So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chan... ARCHIE SHEPP It was tough. All I could do was try to find the open player and get open shots. That all we could a... JODI LINDNER That team has a lot of shooters, has good size. It's a veteran team. We knew they were going to make... FRANK SCHADE I started doing stand-up on my own and I met Julian within a year, and straight away we started to g... NOEL FIELDING
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