I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo
I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.
‐‐ John Fleming
I was elected to solve problems, and I don't think it's conservative to have bad roads; I don't think it's conservative to have bad schools. I don't think it's conservative to have to go through budget crises every two years. So I'm taking the difficult issues straight on. That's what I was elected to do.
‐‐ Brian Sandoval
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel
I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
‐‐ Rand Paul
I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.
‐‐ Lita Ford
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
‐‐ Truman Capote
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
‐‐ Donna Edwards
I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly
I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
‐‐ Hannah Ware
I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.
‐‐ Linda Grant
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
‐‐ Elizabeth Olsen
I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?
‐‐ Tyra Banks
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.
‐‐ Bob Corker
I was embarrassing against Spinks.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney
I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan
I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.
‐‐ Constance Wu
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
‐‐ Javier Bardem
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
‐‐ Scott Stapp
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
‐‐ Tony Greig
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.
‐‐ Meghan Daum
I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it.
‐‐ Monica Lewinsky
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
‐‐ Richard Foreman
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd
I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her.
‐‐ Ellen Malcolm
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.
‐‐ Sarah Waters
I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
‐‐ Albert Wynn
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
‐‐ Bob Edwards
I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.
‐‐ Michael Gove
I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.
‐‐ Leonard Orr
I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami
I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
‐‐ John Green
I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.
‐‐ Edward Brooke
I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.
‐‐ Koo Stark
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
‐‐ Minnie Driver
I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
‐‐ Carre Otis
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
‐‐ Sander Levin
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
‐‐ Elia Kazan
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith
I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka
I was everybody's little boyfriend when I was younger. It's all good. It's just love, you know. I'll take the love. Give it to me.
‐‐ Brandon Adams
I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
‐‐ John Sutter
I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
‐‐ Trent Reznor
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch
I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
‐‐ Jessica Chastain
I was excited to come to Australia to shoot for Seafolly because I've been wanting to visit since I was young. There wasn't much time to explore because we were so busy, which happens often during shoots. We had to take a boat to the Whitsunday Islands every day to get to the locations, which was a great way to start the day.
‐‐ Martha Hunt
I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
‐‐ Kate Mara