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“I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.”

Facts Known Groups My Family Revolutionary Bolsheviks Bolshevism Czars

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.”

Ifs Years Believe Age Comedian Stand Up Comedian

Author:Samm Levine

“I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.”

Writing Kind Comedian

Author:Paul Feig

“I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.”

America Stars England

Author:Anna Lee

“I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.”

Stars Attention Paid Germany Japan Stations Individualism

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.”

Opportunity Sports Chance Honor Fame Prove Blessed Good Things Halls Hall Of Fame Starters Prove Myself

Author:Dennis Eckersley

“I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.”

Ifs Knows Way Two Different Would Be Easier Hardest Hardest Thing Stepchild Different Families

Author:Jennifer Egan

“I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.”

Play Chance Roles Fans Kings Glad Amazed

Author:Kathy Bates

“I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.”

Thinking Should Pieces Benefits Bases Absolutes Investment Secure Retirement Brokers Stock Broker

Author:Barbara Boxer

“I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.”

Ifs Years Long Wanted Morning Figures Wake Up Smoke Joints

Author:George Carlin

“I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.”

Knows Loss Happened Drink Drug Freak Arrows Control Freak

Author:George Saunders

“I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.”

Men Long Boring

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“I was a straight-A student, baby!”

Students Baby

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing.”

Kind Children Art Kids Rooms Strange Hair Listening Green Shoes Artistic My Time Purple Hood Skates Purple Hair

Author:Katie McGrath

“I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.”

Want Kids School Hate Turns Strange High School

Author:Will Ferrell

“I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.”

People Stills Kids Strange

Author:Brittany Howard

“I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.”

Littles Kids Pieces Strange Loud Piano Little Kid

Author:Lady Gaga

“I was a stranger and you took me in”

Beautiful

Author:Neil Gaiman

Source: The Graveyard Book

“I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921”

Stranger

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.”

Ifs Men Way Life Years Humans Soul Moments Seems Night Left Pleasure Known Human Nature Lays Impulse Acquaintance Monotonous Greatest Pleasures Monotonous Life

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.”

Way Needs Different Real Problem Bigs Kids Found Cities Streets Complexes Monsters My Way Different Ways Mexico Real Problems Mexico City

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I was a street performer for two years.”

Years Two Streets Two Years Performers Street Performers

Author:Bernie Mac

“I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?”

Discipline Strict What Is Life

Author:Joan Crawford

“I was a struggling single mom when my novel, The Forlorned, became a motion picture. I thought my life had turned around for the better until a convicted child molester sued me for trademark infringement over the word FORLORNED. Finally, after three long years of legal proceedings, the US Supreme Court sided with me. Always stand up and fight for what is right. Never give in—never give up!”

Horror Supernatural Horror Stories

Author:Angela J. Townsend

Source: The Forlorned

“I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.”

Made Mistake Stubborn Cuss Words

Author:Earl Butz

“I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.”

Students University Decades Outlook Expanding Temperament Explosions Mold Scholarly

Author:Li Keqiang

“I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.”

Students Germany

Author:Klaus Fuchs

“I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.”

Art Boys Students Taste England Police Musical London Emergence Radar Ramones Art Students Musical Taste Cbgb

Author:Alan Rickman

“I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.”

May Stills Differences Teaching Students Department Anthropology

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

“I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I discovered in photos what had been missing in paintings; namely that they make a terrific variety of statements and have great substance. That is what I wanted to convey to paintings and apply to it.”

Art Wanted Missing Students Painting Models Technique Statements Variety Substance Rely Satisfying Terrific

Author:Gerhard Richter

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I was a stunt man for 35 years.”

Men Years

Author:Richard Farnsworth

“I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.”

Years Fifteen Fifteen Years Stuntman

Author:Chuck Zito

“I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.”

Way Kind Kids Bits Parent Saws Tvs My Way Shy

Author:Melissa Rauch

“I was a super tomboy growing up.”

Growing Up Growing

Author:Britt Robertson

“I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.”

Way Different Stories Fans Huge I Realized Different Ways Storyteller

Author:J. Cole

“I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number of people I've had sex with very low, because I never wanted to have to tell my future wife, "Oh, yeah, I was with 30 people."”

People Kind Able Wanted Sex Numbers Wife Lows Yeah My Future Prudes Future Wife

Author:Pete Wentz

“I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.”

Amount Cost Believer Penalties Supporter Law Enforcement Death Penalty Obscene

Author:Gil Garcetti

“I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.”

Desire Treated Genocide Supporter Sections Nigeria Federation

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.”

People Made Fun Hung Surf Surfer

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.”

Stills Supporter Surrogates

Author:Brian J. White

“I was a swan, but ripped apart and taped haphazardly back together again.”

Dance

Author:Erin Bomboy

“I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 a.m. You get used to it. You get up at 4:15 a.m.; my parents, who were amazing, they were up at 4:15 a.m. or earlier to drop me off at the pool and then go to work. I eventually stopped doing that, but the pattern remained. I like getting up really early. It feels like my time of day.”

Parent Growing Up Pool Swimmer

Author:Teddy Sears

“I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.”

Way Want Years Long Water Hours Growing Up Five Four Growing Distance Teenage Long Distance Swimmer Teenage Years

Author:Scott Speedman

“I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.”

Children Dancer Repetition Precision Tap Dancers

Author:Elliott Gould

“I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.”

Ifs Knows School Roles Teacher Fashion Design Broken Needed Program Evolve Associates Fixing Dean Administrators Fixing Things

Author:Tim Gunn

“I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.”

Long Humanity Voice Community Education Teacher Cutting Dying Taught College Theory Long Time Funding Community College Music Education Arts And Humanities

Author:Jon Secada

“I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.”

Idols Shelves Shelf Life

Author:Shaun Cassidy

“I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”

Enough Stars Teenager Disgusting

Author:John Cusack

“I was a teenage godmother.”

Teenage Godmother

Author:Theresa May

“I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work.”

Hard Shows My Own Hard Work Honor Musical Teenager Performing Giants Concerts Anything Is Possible

Author:Prince Royce

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