All Quotes

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.
‐‐ Alan G. Poindexter

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
‐‐ Sam Donaldson

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Charpentier

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
‐‐ David Suchet

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
‐‐ Michael Gove

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.
‐‐ Kathy Reichs

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk Douglas's kids. He introduced me to Sam Spiegel.
‐‐ Theresa Russell

I was a vegan for about a year, and it was a great experience. And I became vegan not because of animal rights. I became vegan for a year for health purposes... It was just kind of a detox that I was going through.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.
‐‐ Lea Michele

I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet.
‐‐ John Salley

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
‐‐ Aaron Tveit

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

I was a very close friend of Dash Snow's, so whenever I get a chance to revisit his work, that's always amazing for me.
‐‐ Leo Fitzpatrick

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I was a very confident little kid.
‐‐ Tina Fey

I was a very conscientious student.
‐‐ Nneka

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.
‐‐ Pink

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
‐‐ Sadie Frost

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
‐‐ Kate Beckinsale

I was a very driven young person.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Messier

I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
‐‐ John Malkovich

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
‐‐ John Malkovich

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.
‐‐ Joan Allen

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.
‐‐ Josie Loren

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
‐‐ Mako

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.
‐‐ Jay Ryan

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.
‐‐ Maxine Kumin

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
‐‐ Hannah Kent

I was a very independent teenager.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
‐‐ Ice Cube

I was a very isolated teenager.
‐‐ Patty Duke

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.
‐‐ Joe Namath