Quotes for All
I didn’t write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children’s book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That … Read more
I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old. Ewan McGregor
My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy. Erykah Badu
I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we’ve been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we’ve been up there for a while. Errol Morris
I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries. Eric Kandel
My mother didn’t feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years. Ella Baker
My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys’ hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there. Eliza Coupe
[At nine years old] I didn’t really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up – basketball, soccer and track. I really didn’t care. I just wanted to be an Olympian. Elana Meyers
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel – it’s a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn’t very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I … Read more
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn’t a very good poet and I wasn’t a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better. Edward Albee