All Quotes

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
‐‐ Mary Chapin Carpenter

I was a librarian.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

I was a lieutenant in World War II.
‐‐ John Eisenhower

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
‐‐ Chirlane McCray

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
‐‐ Rachel Miner

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.
‐‐ Dexter Scott King

I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
‐‐ Bill Ackman

I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.
‐‐ Tim Daly

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
‐‐ Percy Sledge

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.
‐‐ Christa McAuliffe

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
‐‐ Maria Mitchell

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know - teachers loved me, straight-A student.
‐‐ Morgan Fairchild

I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.
‐‐ Laura Benanti

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.
‐‐ Seymour Cassel

I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.
‐‐ David Crane

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
‐‐ Henry Cisneros

I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.'
‐‐ Stacy Keibler

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
‐‐ Jason Lee

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
‐‐ Nafisa Joseph

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
‐‐ Gary Cole

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.
‐‐ Ron White

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.
‐‐ Alison Owen

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
‐‐ Anthony Kiedis

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
‐‐ Don Johnson

I was a little, tiny kid in the '80s, but I do remember seeing the styles of clothes, and I remember the cars from that era.
‐‐ Scott Michael Foster

I was a little too young to be a hippie.
‐‐ Gale Norton

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
‐‐ Aaron Sanchez