#hadn

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again. ↗

— Claire Danes

#again #been #experience #free #hadn

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today. ↗

— Jim Davis

#boy #child #farm #farmer #hadn

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #came #childhood #hadn #having

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#bring #certainly #come #did #disappointed

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#caught #england #got #hadn #i

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#been #calling #come #convinced #could

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? ↗

— Jean Genet

#delicious #fascination #felt #had #hadn