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“I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.”

“I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.”

Bigs Kids Heaven Fantasy Angel Ugly Cures Shy Drs Pissed Off Polio Fantasy Life

Author:Cher

“I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.”

Made Home Father Boys Hero Worship Absence Shy Awkward My Hero Hero Worship

Author:Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

“I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.”

People Kids Quiet Shy Toys Introvert Hanging Around

Author:Christian Slater

“I was a sick child, I was scared, and honestly speaking, I never thought about why I didn't tell anyone about my abuse. Abuse victims don't have all the answers, and I never thought it was abuse. My generation was totally different. Now a small child knows many things, much more than what we knew. When I understood it was not right, it was much later.”

Children Different Sick Abuse Victim Scared Honestly

Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

“I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.”

Love Two Home Age Parent Serious Baby Mom Dad Thirds Raised My Mom Charm Adopted Infection Mom And Dad Orphanage Third Time Respiratory Adoptive Parents

Author:Rodney Atkins

“I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.”

Children Age Five Tuberculosis Contracting

Author:Dinah Sheridan

“I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.”

Children President Class Team Boxes Captains Valentine Sidelines Class President Team Captain

Author:Lois Lowry

“I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.”

Years Firsts Play Courses Four Instruments Singers Nine Four Years Nine Years

Author:Mel Torme

“I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.”

Want Choices Mom My Friends Single Mom

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.”

Two Beautiful Girl Mom Raised Compassionate Single Mom

Author:Connie Stevens

“I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.”

Two Kids Mom Band Single Mom Waitress

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I was a single mother when my child was little.”

Children Littles Mother My Children Single Mother

Author:Gloria Allred

“I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.”

Parent Parenthood Single Parent

Author:Alison Moyet

“I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.”

Night Doubt Sinner Not Alone Accomplices

Author:William Kent Krueger

“I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.”

Persons Motivational Guy Found Speak Player Safe Basketball Shy Skinny Reserved Safe Places Place In Life

Author:Bill Walton

“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire.”

Truth Hope Belief Strong Force Freedom Chance Powerful Honest Strength Fool Battle Slave Fight Free Win Kill Lose Slaves Empire Large Straight Prevent Chain Vast Forbid

Author:Anthony Ryan

Source: Queen of Fire

“I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt like a wasteland of a reality.”

Mind Reality Belief Fiction Darkness Identity Slave Mindset Falsehood Mind Power Forged Believing The Dark Dictionary False Identity

Author:Andrew Kendall

Source: The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.

“I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.”

Ideas Force Destruction Slave Silly Surrender Justified Superstitious Being Silly

Author:Rick Yancey

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.”

Thinking Way Children Film Melancholy Escaping

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.”

Kids Wanted Sloppy

Author:Etta James

“I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that postcard anonymously and mail it to me. I got a lot of surprises.”

“I was a small fish in a big sea of amorous deceit.”

Dark Mystery Crime Murder Thriller Fast Paced Crime Thriller Noir Fiction

Author:M S M Barkawitz

Source: Feeling Lucky

“I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.”

Long Happens Kids Islands Long Island

Author:Gerry Cooney

“I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.”

Kids Parent Smart Understood Smart Kid

Author:Woody Allen

“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”

Kids School Smart Intelligence Hated Smart Kid

Author:Eminem

“I was a smoker for about 20 years.”

Years Smokers

Author:Selma Blair

“I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.”

Years Voice Secret Bird Grateful Eggs Honey Slips Cigarette Smokers

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.”

People Ideas Records Okay Punk Hung Teenage Skater

Author:Ariel Rechtshaid

“I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.”

Years Teacher Rivers Guides Life Experience Apology Instructors Nightclubs

Author:Justin Trudeau

“I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin”

Problem Guy Next Drinking Sober Dean Funny Drinking

Author:Red Skelton

“I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.”

Years Believe Facts Games I Believe Team Duty Soccer This Day Unprecedented Cheerleader Squad Cheerleading Brownies Soccer Game

Author:Kathy Griffin

Source: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

“I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed online. I met my first boyfriend online at 15, which culminated in me running away to San Francisco to be with him.”

Firsts Has Beens Running Social Mets Online Running Away San Francisco Recluse First Boyfriend

Author:Marie Calloway

“I was a soldier before i was a spy, and i am done with lies. She fell into step beside the crown prince of Fjerda. I will leave this world on a hammer blow.”

Nina Zenik

Author:Leigh Bardugo

Source: Rule of Wolves

“I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.”

War Lasts Months Couple Soldier Combat Wwii

Author:Mel Brooks

“I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.”

People Kind Different Play Character Groups Students Drama My Time Swings Nerd Chorus Choir

Author:John C. Reilly

“I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”

Long Compassion Long Time Arrogant Narcissist

Author:Andrew Sarris

“I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.”

Knows Song Greater Written Songwriters

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.”

Profession Songwriters Honorable Torches

Author:Rosanne Cash

“I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.”

Rocks Late London Journalist

Author:Jonathan Demme

“I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.”

Writing Kind Soul Political Song Honest Being Honest Meaningless

Author:Ben Drew

“I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.”

Sound Records Teaching Engineers Guru Workshops Dmt Ayahuasca Hallucinogens Peruvians

Author:Larkin Grimm

“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.”

Men Kind Kids Guy Deals Fans Beats Deeper Storytelling Complexity Peter Spiders Bad Guys Angst Good Guy Spider Man Peter Parker

Author:Jack Coleman

“I was a spiritual kid.”

Kids Spiritual

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I was a sponge filled to capacity with the putrid gray water of all of those who had hurt me. I wondered if, like a sponge, I could be wrung out and I wouldn’t have to carry it anymore.”

Romance Healing Heartbreak Trauma Dark Romance Break Ups Overcoming Trauma Flawed Character Flawed Romance

Author:Elle Mitchell

“I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.”

Sports Fans March Sports Fan

Author:Tim Robbins

“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.”

School Fall Three Sports Hours Football Basketball Spring Accounts Winter Athlete Track Who I Am Nuts After School Winter To Spring

Author:Terry Crews

“I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.”

Years Dream Film Fighting Interest Backgrounds Boxing Sportsman

Author:Jason Statham

“I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.”

Ifs Knows Men Years Play Turns Actors Left Stage Drama Intelligent Tables Comic Hyper Stage Actors Yuppies Scumbags

Author:John Michael Higgins

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