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“I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.”

Feelings Problem Clear Focused Enjoyed Listeners Puzzles Clue Observers Faded

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

Source: My Beloved World

“I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.”

School Soccer Captains Cricket Sportsman

Author:John E. Walker

“I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].”

Kids

Author:Bill Ayers

“I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.”

Years Kind Kids Appreciation Bothered Charlie Obscenity Sacrilege Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

“I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.”

Kids Wanted Singers Oklahoma

Author:Patti Page

“I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.”

People Littles Said Book Reason Kids Age Guy Saws Skills Thirds Come Up Stores Stuck Reports Grades Toys They Said Little Kid Vinyl Dummy Third Grade Ventriloquism

Author:Jeff Dunham

“I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.”

Self Kids Self Esteem Esteem

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.”

People Kids School Type Beats Soccer Athletic

Author:Fred Durst

“I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.”

Ifs Kids School Guy Red Fuel Aggression Caps Wearing Red

Author:Fred Durst

“I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.”

Ifs Art Kids Culture Black Theater Somewhere Else Harlem

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.”

Stills Kids Pleasure Existence Draws Primaries Sustenance

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.”

Giving Kind I Can Play Kids Games Basketball Baseball Balls Give Me Bounce

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.”

Sometimes Kids Opinion Trouble Mouths Advantage Columnists

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.”

People Kids Angry Unhappy Halls

Author:Rob Reiner

“I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.”

Kids School Film Acting Film School

Author:Edward Burns

“I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'”

Said Real Play Bigs Running Kids Tvs Fancy Wow Bass Cords

Author:Steve Vai

“I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.”

Kids Remember Mother Singing Radio Actresses Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Ruben Blades

“I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.”

Knows World Firsts Book Whole Kids Fun Diversity First Time Unions Excited Neighborhood New World Wow Soviet Soviet Union Judaism Bananas Picture Books

Author:Regina Spektor

“I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.”

Ifs Knows Children Stills Play Kids Wanted

Author:Travis Barker

“I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."”

People Men Want Feels Kids Night Social Band Yeah Saturday Music Love Saturday Night I Love Music

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.”

Men Kind Together Turns Army One Man Engineers Physicist Rockets Circuits Balloons Hybrid Astronomers

Author:James Van Allen

“I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.”

Kind Persons Twenties Intense Impatient Hyper

Author:Bill Gates

“I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.”

Kings Slave Heirs

Author:Mary Renault

“I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.”

Boys Fans Balls Teenager Vintage Kenny Sears Knicks

Author:Marv Albert

“I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish.”

Ifs Said Body Mouths Shots Shooting Knights Andrea Melons

Author:Ilona Andrews

Source: Magic Slays

“I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.”

Men Found Left Party Months London Labour Militant Nelson Labour Party

Author:C. L. R. James

“I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.”

School Rounds Scared Really Short

Author:Bipasha Basu

“I was a lapsing Christian, but in what direction was I lapsing? To nowhere, to nothingness. As absurd as the church was, it was an improvement over my actual life because there was at least a pretense of meaning there. Back in New York, I was just eating and taking up space, a depraved postmodern creature on the job, carrying pebbles up the media anthill.”

Politics Current Events Political Commentary Political Opinion

Author:Matt Taibbi

Source: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

“I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.”

Wanted School Lasts Forget Amount Picks Baseball Rounds

Author:Mike Piazza

“I was a late bloomer. I was still naïve about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting up and taking notice—of the world, my body, others—in a way never before experienced. I noticed boys, or rather they noticed me, at 16.”

Writing Coming Of Age Late Bloomer

Author:Chila Woychik

Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”

Writing Poetry Lucky Late Self Actualization Hidden Talents

Author:Sharon Olds

“I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.”

Children Littles Play Kids Wanted Sides Dark Rocks Band Late Guitar Shy Little Kid Dark Side Rock Bands

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I was a late bloomer. I'm not one of those girls who's like, "I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!”

Looks Body Girl Late Hey

Author:Lizzy Caplan

“I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.”

People Thinking Men Years Children Felt Parent Grew Late Grew Up Old Man Pregnancy

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.”

Age Football Late Quitting Developers

Author:Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

“I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.”

Fronts Late Dating Starters

Author:Geri Halliwell

“I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.”

Left Latecomers

Author:Robert Wyatt

“I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.”

Thinking Has Beens Married Lawyer Plenty Household Quota

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.”

Way Born Divorce Lawyer

Author:Lisa Scottoline

“I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.”

Years Lawyer Who I Am Short Time Big Corporations

Author:John Grisham

“I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.”

People Way Years Littles Bigs Guy Fighting Natural Lawyer Who I Am Corporations Clients Short Time Natural Things Big Corporations

Author:John Grisham

“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.”

Years My Own Prison Faults Lawyer Misfortunes Clients

Author:John Grisham

“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.”

Years Done Law Lawyer Tricks In-laws

Author:Stephan Pastis

“I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.”

Years Different Law Teach Ten Lawyer Angle Different Angles

Author:Alex Flinn

“I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take a nap.”

Humor Funny Reading Comedy Jokes Cereal Humorist

Author:M.J. McGuire

Source: Meme Myself and Jesus

“I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.”

Left

Author:Gerry Cooney

“I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.”

Inspirational Funny Graduation Requirements Semester

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.”

Simplicity Tiny Homes

Author:Dee Williams

Source: The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

“I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.”

Wells Art Home Figures Coming Home Junkie Liberal Arts

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.”

Long Names Gender Liberated Liberated Woman

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

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