I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario
I was unemployable when I got out of college.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides
I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.
‐‐ Helen Vendler
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
‐‐ George Woodcock
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
‐‐ Boy George
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.
‐‐ Peter Jurasik
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen
I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
‐‐ Trent Reznor
I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!
‐‐ Michael Clarke Duncan
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.
‐‐ Eric Stoltz
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
‐‐ Tucker Carlson
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
‐‐ Joely Fisher
I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.
‐‐ Rose McGowan
I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.
‐‐ Cheryl Lynn
I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.
‐‐ Michael Masser
I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.
‐‐ Harry Treadaway
I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.
‐‐ Milo Ventimiglia
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche
I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
‐‐ Sarah Hall
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
‐‐ Terry Riley
I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
‐‐ John Fahey
I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.
‐‐ Nick D'Aloisio
I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn
I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.
‐‐ Julie Christie
I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
‐‐ Bob Shaw
I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
‐‐ Laura Wilkinson
I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson
I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.
‐‐ Sonja Sohn
I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.
‐‐ Ashley Scott
I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things.
‐‐ Mike Scully
I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
‐‐ Margot Kidder
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
‐‐ Anna Held
I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk
I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
‐‐ Sharon Olds
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
‐‐ Melissa Marr
I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
‐‐ Danica Patrick
I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd always wanted to be a model and thought, 'Right, he's going to see me everywhere.' I was relentless in my pursuit of modeling. It was revenge.
‐‐ Jane March
I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
‐‐ Ellar Coltrane
I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.
‐‐ Izabella Scorupco
I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.
‐‐ Jim Parsons
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
‐‐ Imogen Poots
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
‐‐ Denise Mina
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
‐‐ Kim Gordon
I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.
‐‐ Leslie Hope
I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.
‐‐ Simon McBurney