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“I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.”

“I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.”

“I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.”

May Made Sports June

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.”

Sometimes Whole Stories Objectives Journalist

Author:Isabel Allende

“I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.”

People Suitable Nun

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.”

People Faces Your Face Waiter Dealing With People

Author:Judge Reinhold

“I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.”

Kids House Rooms Class Four Middle My Family Including Middle Class No Money

Author:Patti Smith

“I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.”

Kids Tennessee

Author:St. Vincent

“I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.”

Firsts Hard Play Kids Certain Listening Musician First Time Blow Sexy Supreme Holes Tennessee

Author:Annie E. Clark

“I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.”

People Thinking Want Advantage Like Me This Life Magnet

Author:Marc Almond

“I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.”

Cold Standing My Favorite Honestly Standing Out Cleaning Toilets Maids Favorites Things

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just thrown into it. I was never a gregarious kind of a young man. I was very frightened. It was difficult to divorce myself from myself.”

People Men Kind Young Difficult Fans Industry Majors Divorce Young Man Thrown Frightened Gregarious

Author:Tab Hunter

“I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.”

Believe Degrees Photography Treats Zero New Yorkers Explorers Make Believe Snapshots

Author:William Klein

“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”

Men Needs Walks Kings True Man

Author:David Gemmell

“I was a man by middle school.”

Men School Middle Middle School

Author:Edgerrin James

“I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.”

Men Would Be Earth

Author:Jack Kerouac

Source: On the Road

“I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be a psychologist, whereas most people who play their occupation is their definition - and then when they stop doing who they are, they become nothing.”

People Men Play Basketball Definitions Occupation Psychologist

Author:John Amaechi

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.”

Solitude

Author:Charles Bukowski

Source: Factotum

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”

Men Water Rooms Darkness Loneliness Pride Solitude Each Day Dependent Sunlight Another Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.”

Men Enough Political Theory Lucky Findings Crisis Caught Forests Communism Maps Discovering Caught Up Marxism Cuba Political Theory Whirlpools

Author:Fidel Castro

“I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.”

Kids Busy Eccentric Manic

Author:David A. Stewart

“I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.”

Girl Baby Married Baby Girl Married Women

Author:Ruth Warrick

“I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.”

Pleasure Mothers And Daughters Birds N Bees Marital Satisfaction

Author:Karen Essex

Source: Dracula in Love

“I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so fun. It's like dancing, but more bad-ass. I really enjoy doing it.”

Able Artist Fighting Fun Enjoy Dancing Ass Martial Arts Bad Ass Blast Martial Artist

Author:Caity Lotz

“I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.”

Kids Guy Reading

Author:Marc Webb

“I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.”

Knows Stills Age Know How Fans Television Grew Grew Up Massive Twins Shocked Astounded Twin Peaks

Author:Michelle Forbes

“I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.”

New York Mechanic Groceries Carts Deejays Bagger

Author:Michael Rosenbaum

“I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.”

Knows May Know How Airplane Mechanic Navy Airline Stripes

Author:Gordon Bethune

“I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.”

Said Levels Millions Mediums Hey Juvenile Delinquents Genies Newark

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.”

World Years Bigs Roles Study Issues Security Members Committees National Security Chunks Armed Services

Author:John Kasich

“I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.”

Firsts Kind Shows Records Couple Involved Band Conversation Members Mass Yeah Moved Studios Bars

Author:Dan Bejar

“I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life”

States Black Students Involved Periods Activity Members Unions Extraordinary Strikes Committees San Francisco Campus

Author:Danny Glover

“I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.”

Law Saws Periods Members Parliament Treaties

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.”

Years House Leader Members Majority Nine Speakers Florida Whips Legislature Nine Years Majority Leader

Author:Marco Rubio

“I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.”

Years Members Seven Ministers Seven Years

Author:Eduard Shevardnadze

“I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.”

Thinking Knows Believe Past Fishes Obsessed Believe In Me My Past Past Life Just Live Mermaid Dolphins Underwater

Author:Ella Henderson

“I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.”

Forests Hardest Mess Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”

Rap

Author:Jason Mewes

“I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.”

Reality Form Caught Shock Glances

Author:Richard Bach

“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.”

Children Used Mother Middle Conditions Reverse Negotiating Middle Child

Author:Leeza Gibbons

“I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.”

Knows Middle Taught Republican Democrat Carter Watergate Middle Of The Road

Author:Dave Barry

“I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.”

Thinking Kind Bigs Used Felt Cases Brother Smoking Marijuana Assault Think Big Politically Correct Militant Smokers

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.”

Men Years Believe Long I Believe Chance Military Advantage Standing Sake Israel Zionist Military Man

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.”

Shows Company Training University Chicago Mime Northwestern Northwestern University

Author:Kerry Bishe

“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.”

People Ifs Way Children Made Teacher Trouble Activity Corners Subversive

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.”

Years Government Today Three Fronts Ministers Socialist Chile

Author:Salvador Allende

“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Years Kind Book Seems Care Kids School Reading Hours High School Don't Care Teenager I Don't Care Insecurity Lunch Misfits Jocks School Years

Author:Charles de Lint

“I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.”

Looks Kids Shoes Legs Shirts Necks Italian Uniforms Pencils Sweaters Bowling Trousers Polo Mods Essex

Author:Stephen Moyer

“I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.”

People Years Looks Deals Models Eight

Author:Beau Garrett

“I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.”

Models Baseball Blame Clean Shoes Uniforms Marine Neat Rifles Marine Corps

Author:Jay Johnstone

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