All Quotes

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.
‐‐ Jim Lynch

I was a Political Science major.
‐‐ Harry Shearer

I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
‐‐ Isaac Hayes

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
‐‐ Kara DioGuardi

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
‐‐ Diane Abbott

I was a precocious child.
‐‐ Pippa Evans

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.
‐‐ Ari Graynor

I was a precocious reader.
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
‐‐ Amanda Holden

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
‐‐ Sam Barry

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
‐‐ Emily Watson

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.
‐‐ Ellar Coltrane

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
‐‐ Caleb Carr

I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen

I was a pretty difficult teenager.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
‐‐ John Corbett

I was a pretty feisty young kid.
‐‐ John Newcombe

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
‐‐ Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
‐‐ Jack Dempsey

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
‐‐ Hank Williams

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.
‐‐ Matt Holliday

I was a pretty popular kid, and I participated in every sport.
‐‐ Tim Howard

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
‐‐ Nate Lowman

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
‐‐ Amy Adams

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.
‐‐ Michael Harney

I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.
‐‐ Leo McCarey

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
‐‐ David Quammen

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
‐‐ Josh Gad

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
‐‐ Lou Reed

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
‐‐ Jose Canseco

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'
‐‐ Juliet Landau

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
‐‐ David Cone

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.
‐‐ Alex Meraz

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.
‐‐ Ryan Guzman

I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
‐‐ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.
‐‐ Louis Freeh