All Quotes

I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.
‐‐ Mike McCaul

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.
‐‐ Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.
‐‐ Christine Lahti

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.
‐‐ Billy Crystal

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
‐‐ Neil Marshall

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
‐‐ Dermot Mulroney

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
‐‐ Kami Garcia

I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason.
‐‐ Pattie Boyd

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.
‐‐ Jennine Capó Crucet

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.
‐‐ Grace Slick

I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.
‐‐ Emmylou Harris

I was a food junkie.
‐‐ Mo'Nique

I was a foodie and I continue to be a foodie.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.
‐‐ Clark Gregg

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
‐‐ Ira Glass

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'
‐‐ Katie Cassidy

I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
‐‐ David Mackay

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston

I was a functional addict.
‐‐ James Taylor

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
‐‐ Jack Bowman

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
‐‐ Robert Gober

I was a geek in high school.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.
‐‐ Julian Bond

I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class.
‐‐ Jordan Klepper

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.
‐‐ Ricki Lake

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn