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“I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure.”

“I was a fuckhead for suggesting it, but I wasn't quite ready to leave her all alone yet. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I just wanted a little more time while she sorta kinda needed me.”

Denny Fliss Copperline

Author:Sibylla Matilde

Source: Wild Irish Envy

“I was a fucking child,” I seethe, voice low and dangerous. “I didn’t need to be stronger; I needed to be safe.”

Safe Stronger

Author:J. Rose

“I was a full foot taller than any child my age.”

Children Age Feet

Author:Kristen Johnston

“I was a full time student either at Stony Brook or NYU getting my masters degree. After I graduated with my masters I was working as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. So I have always had other business or other things going on while training for a fight.”

Fighting Students Masters Degrees Training Brooks Trainers Nutritionist Nyu Masters Degree

Author:Chris Algieri

“I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.”

Way Trying Games Winning Realizing Streets Cat My Way Hustle Mansions

Author:Ice T

“I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.”

Christ Followers Pastor Part Time

Author:Craig Groeschel

Source: The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist

“I was a functional addict.”

Addiction Addict

Author:James Taylor

“I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes.”

“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.”

Men College Summer Garbage Jersey New Jersey Dump Yale Switzerland

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.”

Want Kids Wanted School Guy Easy Design College Gay Late High School Theater Clubs Lighting Thespians

Author:James Pearse Connelly

“I was a geek in high school.”

School High School Geek

Author:David Schwimmer

“I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from.”

People Trying Different Found Party Particular Fit Guilty Teenager Hanging Out Association Invited Nerd Different Peoples Geek Niche Clique Trying To Fit In

Author:Chester Bennington

“I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.”

Wells School Guy Team Projects Majors Very Good Presentation Business School Good School

Author:Kevin Plank

“I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.”

Feels Courses Felt Design College Typography Web Design Generalists

Author:Jessica Hische

“I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years”

Years States Great Men Georgia Legislators

Author:Julian Bond

“I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.”

Persons Mother Force Remarkable

Author:Sidney Poitier

“I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.”

People Home Wanted Girl Position Empowering

Author:Ricki Lake

“I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.”

Girl New York Grew Grew Up Window Basements

Author:Jessica Hahn

“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.”

Giving Children Girl Powerful Behinds Roles Land Son Birth Daughter Celebration Curtains Rifles Roles In Life

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.”

Looks School Girl Bits Lines New York Hair Scene Moved Clubs Grades Jeans Chloe Girly Grades In School Short Hair Androgynous Girly Girl Really Short

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.”

Children Innocent Attractive

Author:Robert Schumann

“I was a golden witch, who had no past at all.”

Witchcraft Circe Odysseus

Author:Madeline Miller

Source: Circe

“I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.”

Feels Wanted School College High School Pounds Going Away Overweight

Author:Daphne Oz

“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”

Success Left Business Knowledge New York Band Limits Self Improvement University Average Business Success Music Business

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.”

Trying Air Events Ten Balls Train Coaches Jugglers

Author:Dan O'Brien

“I was a good for nothing vagabond roaming the streets of Calcutta. If I have done so much with no resources to speak of, how much will you do! Wake up my friend, the ailing world awaits.”

Sacrifice Social Justice Humanitarian Revolutionary Service Of Humanity Activist Selfless Humanitarianism Reformer Serving Society

Author:Abhijit Naskar

Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.”

Children Enough Kids Teacher Needed Urgent

Author:Barbara Park

“I was a good liar as a child.”

Children Lying Liars Good Liar

Author:Gillian Anderson

“I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.”

War Ends Wanted Support Rights Movement Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement

Author:Bill Ayers

“I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.”

Littles Boys Students Arrested Little Boys Good Students

Author:Michael Moore

“I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.”

Writing Years Done School Mistake Class Thirds Primaries Fourth Pupils Spelling Primary School Spelling Mistakes

Author:Jose Saramago

“I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the day before the exam stay up all night (studying), which I do not recommend doing. But that's more the kind of thing you do when you're younger and you're in college in a band and wanted to party, too.”

People Kind Wanted Night Party Class Study Students College Band All Night Exam Up All Night Good Students

Author:Jeff Kendrick

“I was a good student in school.”

School Students Good Students

Author:Kenan Thompson

“I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.”

Wanted Subjects Students Be Good Excellent Sections Curriculum Good Students

Author:Jack Kirby

“I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.”

Kids Students Good Students

Author:Demetri Martin

“I was a good student, but I didn't like school.”

School Students Good Students

Author:Ashley Benson

“I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”

Girl President Students Vices Soccer Council Vice President Pretty Girl Good Students Student Council

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.”

Students Athletic Good Students

Author:Rosemary Mahoney

“I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.”

Bigs Sides Teacher Students Mom My Mom Grades Emphasis Good Students Good Grades

Author:Tyler Hilton

“I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.”

Way Kids Father Water Grew Ocean Grew Up Block Parks Surfer

Author:Jolene Blalock

“I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'”

Kids Felt Forever Looking Good Braces Dorky

Author:Emma Stone

“I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.”

Song Successful Written Fans Talent Pure Being Successful Greatest Music

Author:Ronnie Hawkins

“I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.”

People Fun Stores Suits Boxing Costumes Belts Gloves Boxers Gorillas Boxing Gloves

Author:Daniel Jacobs

“I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.”

Ideas School Faces Girl Felt Black White High School Attractive Looking Back Fabulous Lipstick Goth

Author:Christina Hendricks

“I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.”

Government Morning Evening Employee Government Employees

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school”

School Interesting Students Apples Berkeley Grad Uc Berkeley

Author:Andy Hertzfeld

“I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.”

Real Order Cooks Departure

Author:Peter Jacobson

“I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.”

Admirer

Author:Richard Marquand

“I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.”

Hours Hot Believer Toasts

Author:Frank O'Connor

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