All Quotes

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
‐‐ Brownie McGhee

When I was homeschooled, I fell so behind - months behind at school - because I'm not good at keeping up. And so I had to sit down for literally three weeks to a month and just do all of it. And it was not fun, and I didn't want to do it, but I had to.
‐‐ Emma Roberts

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
‐‐ Navid Negahban

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.
‐‐ Mark Harmon

When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.
‐‐ Hugh Hardy

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
‐‐ Michael Ironside

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
‐‐ Laurie Simmons

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
‐‐ Agnes Obel

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
‐‐ Red Barber

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
‐‐ Feist

When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.
‐‐ Jung Chang

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
‐‐ Judd Nelson

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
‐‐ E. L. Konigsburg

When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied international relations and French, I studied abroad in Paris for a semester. I think when you're there, you can't help but be immersed in fashion because it's such a part of the city.
‐‐ Stacey Bendet

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
‐‐ Doug Henning

When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.
‐‐ Dean Norris

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
‐‐ Lisel Mueller

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
‐‐ Lou Reed

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
‐‐ Yash Chopra

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
‐‐ Robert Hass

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
‐‐ Marshall Curry

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
‐‐ Steve Martin

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel

When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
‐‐ Manish Dayal

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
‐‐ Mario Batali

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
‐‐ Elon Musk

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
‐‐ Ira Glass

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
‐‐ Edmund White

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
‐‐ Steve Martin

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
‐‐ Darren Criss

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.
‐‐ Greg Fitzsimmons

When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
‐‐ Janina Gavankar

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker