All Quotes

I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I saw so many 15, 16, even 20 year-olds who could not read, had little hope that they would ever find work, faced more challenges than opportunities in life, dropped out of school at some point, and turned to crime.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
‐‐ Nancy Grace

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
‐‐ Star Jones

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
‐‐ Judith Jamison

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.
‐‐ Steven Yeun

I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines.
‐‐ Phil Klay

I was a publicist for other people's movies.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
‐‐ Adam Oates

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.
‐‐ Derf

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.
‐‐ Noomi Rapace

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.
‐‐ Neneh Cherry

I was a purist bore.
‐‐ Michael Parkinson

I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.
‐‐ Junior Seau

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
‐‐ Marie Antoinette

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
‐‐ Nigella Lawson

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
‐‐ Nadia Giosia

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
‐‐ Neil Young

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
‐‐ Helen McCrory

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
‐‐ Talulah Riley

I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth

I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people's questions in a book.
‐‐ Helen Oyeyemi

I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!
‐‐ Shakira

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
‐‐ Katie Price

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.
‐‐ Johnny Knoxville

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.
‐‐ Lucy Alibar

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.
‐‐ Rebecca Sugar

I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.
‐‐ Corin Tucker

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
‐‐ Max Weinberg

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
‐‐ Sara Canning

I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady

I was a really pretentious teenager.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

I was a really, really depressed kid.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.
‐‐ Maya Beiser

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.
‐‐ Lillete Dubey

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.
‐‐ George Dyson

I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.
‐‐ Scott Haze

I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
‐‐ Shirley Manson

I was a redhead when I first came to America.
‐‐ Poppy Montgomery

I was a reflective child.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.
‐‐ James Mercer