I Picked Quotes
177 I Picked quotes by 154 unique authors
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Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I…
— Juliana Hatfield
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When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and…
— F. Burton Howard
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Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said…
— Anne Bishop
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I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked…
— Toby Young
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Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.
— Jeff Ament
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Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and…
— Spoken Reasons
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The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so…
— Chili Davis
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Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only…
— Paula Cole
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But…
— Abraham Polonsky
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The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can…
— Busy Philipps
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To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
— David Spade
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from…
— Irvine Welsh
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
— Ahmet Zappa
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I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had…
— Amanda McBroom
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I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing…
— James Blunt
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I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was…
— Sharon Creech
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell…
— Aaron Carter
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I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read…
— Roman Coppola
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I…
— Kara DioGuardi
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I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West…
— Ronnie Dunn
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I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If…
— Lena Headey
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Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones…
— Edward Hoagland
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I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked…
— Jerome Richardson
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When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done…
— Nick Offerman
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I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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