#turned

I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #before #ever #good #good laugh

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#before #hoped #ignorant #international #labor

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#because #big #down #i #lost

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#business #buy #down #game #got

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#blind #blind eye #companies #congress #ends

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#go #got #her #i #license

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#advertising agency #agency #assembly #assembly line #cannot

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#four #had #happy #happy days #i

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#after #america #because #could #deeper

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#always #bounds #brown #films #i