Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.
I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.
We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.
The hare that escaped had eight legs.
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
But he had been the victim of the world’s most common crime—his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again
This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.
Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.
The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating; later you realize you were only ever drunk on your own vision.
He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.
With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for...
She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked in. She had never guessed it would be Dominic. She had never guessed Dominic be broken.
