All Quotes

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.
‐‐ Christine Woods

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.
‐‐ Toks Olagundoye

I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
‐‐ Josie Loren

I was a musician first before anything.
‐‐ Jencarlos Canela

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.
‐‐ Paul Coffey

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

I was a naughty kid.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
‐‐ James A. Michener

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
‐‐ Brian McKnight

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.
‐‐ Richard Madden

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.
‐‐ Ryan Adams

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
‐‐ Mary Garden

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
‐‐ Ed Asner

I was a normal American nerd.
‐‐ Jack Herer

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.
‐‐ Suraj Sharma

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
‐‐ Emily Watson

I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.
‐‐ Dusty Springfield

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.
‐‐ Vincent Kartheiser

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.
‐‐ Lucy Deakins

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
‐‐ David Boies

I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.
‐‐ Brandi Chastain

I was a part of that Beanie Babies generation. I had, like, 400 of them... OK, maybe not that many, but I had a lot of little stuffed animals that I liked to make talk. I was a big dork, and I still am.
‐‐ Jessica Stroup

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.
‐‐ Peter Baynham

I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.
‐‐ Mary Karr

I was a piano player before I was a poet.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
‐‐ Maceo Parker

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
‐‐ Yves Rossy

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
‐‐ Joan Collins

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
‐‐ Bo Jackson

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
‐‐ Robert Harris