Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.
I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.
It's really cool to see how many people try to imitate me or wear my stuff. I get a lot of Instagram videos of people doing my entrance. I think that's so cool. To see the variety of people, little girls, guys, doing it. I never really thought that would happen. It's amazing.
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.
It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.
I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.
It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
As long as I did the good things associated with religion, I thought I was in good shape spiritually, too.
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.
Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'
Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that's the stupidest thing you can do because people are so pretty in L.A.!
You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.
