All Quotes

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
‐‐ James Patterson

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.
‐‐ Roger Bannister

I was always a guy who wanted to be associated with a brand that meant something to me, something I was proud to be associated with... I always wanted sponsors that felt good to be associated with me as well.
‐‐ Matt Kuchar

I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.
‐‐ Susan Polis Schutz

I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.
‐‐ Steve Martin

I was always a huge fan of Nora Ephron.
‐‐ Haylie Duff

I was always a junk food person, still am.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.
‐‐ Penny Jordan

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
‐‐ Guy Fieri

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.
‐‐ Lynn Flewelling

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
‐‐ Laura Benanti

I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
‐‐ Joe Torre

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.
‐‐ Meghan Trainor

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
‐‐ Edwin Moses

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
‐‐ Mark Teixeira

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
‐‐ Idris Elba

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.
‐‐ Dylan Minnette

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
‐‐ Maya Beiser

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.
‐‐ Melissa de la Cruz

I was always a self-conscious person.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
‐‐ Andre Dubus III

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.
‐‐ Anna Maxwell Martin

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
‐‐ Ann Robinson

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.
‐‐ Mindy Kaling

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
‐‐ John Cleese

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I was always a theatrical kid.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.
‐‐ Artie Lange

I was always a tomboy growing up in Africa.
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo

I was always a very good student.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.
‐‐ Trey Parker

I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.
‐‐ Jared Gilman

I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.
‐‐ Busy Philipps

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
‐‐ Bruce Davison

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
‐‐ Simon Van Booy

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.
‐‐ Beau Willimon

I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
‐‐ Fetty Wap

I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.
‐‐ Jim Edgar

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
‐‐ T. J. Thyne

I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
‐‐ Malin Akerman

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
‐‐ Bo Jackson

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
‐‐ Chuck Yeager