Told Me Quotes
2338 Told Me quotes by 1631 unique authors
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
— Haile Gebrselassie
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When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.
— Richard E. Grant
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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something…
— Tracy Chapman
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Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
— Nelson DeMille
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The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted,…
— Lucy Larcom
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it…
— Pat Conroy
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My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.
— Jo Brand
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If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a…
— Troy Perry
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Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are…
— Esther Dyson
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There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and…
— Armand Hammer
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
— Aaron Neville
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From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I…
— Michael Lee-Chin
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I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if…
— Martine McCutcheon
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They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself,…
— Teena Marie
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Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
— Zayn Malik
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell…
— Haley Joel Osment
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to…
— Tea Obreht
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A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to…
— Lauren Potter
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My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that…
— Dylan Lauren
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A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?
— Chynna Phillips
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I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a…
— Ridley Pearson
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I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish…
— Tyler Posey
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No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked…
— Charley Pride
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Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to…
— Geoffrey Rush
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