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“I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.”

Years Focus Missing Couple Band Years Ago Hip Hop Producers Hips Parks Hops Rapper Minors Straight Up Forts Linkin Park

Author:Mike Shinoda

“I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.”

Light Age Young Used Mother Powerful Darkness Laughing Saws Comedy Sadness Products Six Weapons Tools Combat Divorced Young Age Very Powerful Therapeutic

Author:Josh Gad

“I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.”

People Art Creative Impossible Products Affected Factories Creative People Warhol

Author:Lou Reed

“I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.”

Years War Able Jobs Inspiring Products Britain Occupation Questioning Better Jobs Admiring

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.”

World Player Baseball Athlete Baseball Player Professional Athlete Best Baseball

Author:Jose Canseco

“I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.”

School Player High School Baseball Retired Baseball Player

Author:David Cone

“I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La Défense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.”

Years Two Book Country School Literature Results Player Taught Masters Chess France More Money Tournaments Chess Players Playing Chess Romania Alekhine

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.”

Actors Dancer

Author:Alex Meraz

“I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.”

Thinking Years Kind Art Form Dancing Seven Fighter Martial Arts Seven Years

Author:Ryan Guzman

“I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.”

World Three Player Europe Tennis Teens Juniors Messed Up Tennis Player Discs Top 10

Author:Boris Kodjoe

“I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.”

Years Agents Fbi Prosecutor Fbi Agents

Author:Louis J. Freeh

“I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.”

Knows Years Cases Know How Crime Victim Prosecutor Crime Victims

Author:Nancy Grace

“I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.”

Division Senior Brooklyn Attorney Assistants Prosecutor Homicide

Author:Star Jones

“I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.”

Age Class Study Adults Ballet Choreographers Tudors

Author:Judith Jamison

“I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.”

Has Beens Might Might Have Been

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

Source: The Year of Yes

“I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.”

Kind Two Home White Missing College Majors Train Rats Labs Psych

Author:Steven Yeun

“I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.”

Felt Illness Mental Illness Like Something Psycho

Author:Katie Price

“I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.”

People Thinking Way Trying Helping Enjoy Psychology Figures Majors

Author:Bailey Chase

“I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.”

Names Punk Purple Lipstick Hairstyles

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.”

Looks Wanted Hair Teenager Punk Blonde Punk Rock Nancy Piercings Rockers Blonde Hair

Author:Noomi Rapace

“I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.”

Thinking Persons Guy Punk Bad Guys Good Person

Author:Adam Oates

“I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.”

Happiness Desire Sex Cravings

Author:Evan Sutter

Source: Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”

Children Long Mother Suffering Wife Blood Husband Remains My Children Queens My Husband Crowns Deprived Marie Guillotine

Author:Marie Antoinette

“I was a question on a game show. I think it was Jeopardy. The question was, "Who is the only person in the world, only female in the world unrelated to Michael Jackson, to ever do a duet with him?" He was doing a duet with me and that's all I cared about.”

Thinking World Female

Author:Siedah Garrett

“I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.”

Inspirational Quiet Teenager Teens Introvert Teenage Angst Introverted Teenage Angst

Author:Nigella Lawson

“I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!”

Stills Remember Revolution Glad Radical Remember When Riot Cocktails Molotov Molotov Cocktail

Author:Sylvia Rivera

“I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.”

Firsts Type Code Navy Typewriters Handwriting Morse Code

Author:Robert Stone

“I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.”

Children Adults

Author:Nadia Giosia

“I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.”

Knows Firsts Mean Hands School Reading Pleasure Subjects Particular Reader Very Good Aptitude First Day Of School Subjects In School

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.”

People Men Agree Shock Agreement

Author:Neil Young

“I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.”

World Real School Losing Window Imaginary Gazing Imaginary World Losing Myself

Author:Talulah Riley

“I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.”

People Real School High School Assuming Loner Cheerleader Cheerleading

Author:Kate Bosworth

“I was a real rebel. I got expelled.”

Real Rebel Uprising

Author:Katie Price

“I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.”

Real Fun Terrible Gifted Skateboarding Skateboarder

Author:Lance Mountain

“I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.”

Fingers Average Teenager Avid Bowlers Blisters

Author:Dennis Quaid

“I was a really bad friend. I didn't understand before. I thought I was just, you know, making choices for *me*. I didn't realize that I was making choices for you.”

Friendship Coming Of Age Apology Middle Grade Conflict Resolution

Author:Leah Stecher

“I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.”

Kids Sweet

Author:Johnny Knoxville

“I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.”

Too Much Drivers One Time Taxi

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.”

Feels Stills Kids Forever Nice Crazy Rocks Band Madness Being Nice Nice Things Rock Bands Nice Day

Author:Max Weinberg

“I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.”

School Students Involved Theater Productions Ambitious Nerdy Good Students

Author:Sara Canning

“I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You have to learn how to treat the kitchen as well as you treat the customers. You have to figure out which crazy people to listen to and which crazy people to ignore. I loved waiting tables because when you cashed out at the end of the night your job was truly over. You wiped down your section and paid out your busboy and you knew your work was done.”

People Work Crazy Memory Kitchen Job Waitress Waitressing

Author:Amy Poehler

“I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.”

People Helping Guy Sports Teach Player Youth Protect Rings All Time Boxing Other Guys Protect Yourself

Author:Christian Scott

“I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.”

Bigs Kids Remember Artist Guy Winning Perfect Painting Losing Draws Abstract Contests Messy Rams

Author:Jean-Michel Basquiat

Source: Basquiat

“I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.”

Kids Nervous Sensitive

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.”

Children Obsessed Tunes Mum Aunt Picky Spinach Popeye

Author:Paul O'Grady

“I was a really pretentious teenager.”

Teenager Pretentious

Author:Rebecca Hall

“I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would say are like - there's a name for many disorders as we know - but I would say, "If I pick this rubber band, then this will happen." It was that kind of want to control things, which I think all kids have to some extent.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Kind Happens Kids Names Serious Band Picks Disorder Rubber Rubber Bands

Author:Carla Gugino

“I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.”

Men Science Interest Natural Doors Students College Type Ambition Chiefs Frank Devoted My Ambition Wilson Natural History Good Students Hart

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.”

Facts Bigs Kids Wanted Rebel

Author:Maya Beiser

“I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.”

Children Real Lovers Devil Rebellious Rebellious Child

Author:Coco Chanel

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