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“I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite.”

“I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.”

Kids Hair Tough Shirts Pockets Over It Concerts Jeans Combs Flannels

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.”

Home Community Family Loneliness

Author:Rabih Alameddine

Source: The Hakawati

“I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.”

Children Enjoy Animal Air Towns Plant Plants And Animals

Author:Georg Brandes

“I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.”

Different Company Boys Disdain Traders Errands Brokers

Author:Melvin Van Peebles

“I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.”

People Giving Wanted Energy Teacher Students Buddhism Traditional Rama Placebo

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.”

Congress Lawyer Trials Aggravation Trial Lawyers

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.”

Film Law Political Courses Left Social Teacher Taught University Lawyer Trials California Santa In-laws Cruz American Universities Trial Lawyers Santa Cruz

Author:Ben Stein

“I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.”

People Years Firsts Two Country Time Feet Hundred First Time Soil Residence Seamen

Author:John Sergeant Wise

Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

“I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.”

Kids Generations Streets Tvs Junkie Sesame Street

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.”

Years Two Country White Strange Female Twenties Two Years My Sister Two Year Olds Twenty Two

Author:Karen Marie Moning

Source: Darkfever: Fever Series

“I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.”

Looks Littles Boys Picks Fishes Enjoyed Farms Agriculture Typical Cotton Drainage Crawfish

Author:Sam Donaldson

“I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.”

Kids Used Rocks Battle Holes Dirty Yards Typical Trash Shields Neighbour Plums Trash Cans

Author:Arj Barker

“I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.”

Growing Up Meditation Growing Typical 1960s Guru

Author:David Suchet

“I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.”

Country Break Unions Folks Dancer Soviet Teens Soviet Union Ukrainian

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.”

Giving Give Me University Professors Drag Hook University Professors

Author:Kathy Reichs

“I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.”

Years Blood Vampire Twilight Eighty Sweetest Midnight Sun

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. And then, sitting with Jacob at the community table, she'd been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. She'd existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last. But she hadn't been a flower when she'd gone to live with Claire, had she? Emilie traveled deeper into the shop. She was in the addition now, its ceiling higher, its rows of tables laden with houseplants. Water, she decided. That's what she'd been with Claire. Shapeless, colorless, but necessary. She'd done what she had to. She had been there for her grandmother. She'd kept her family afloat. But what was she now?”

Water Family Roles Identity Metaphor Flowers Vase Extended Metaphor

Author:Nina LaCour

Source: Yerba Buena

“I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird but they seem weird to me, like blood sausage or snails. Those are things I've eaten now that, years ago, it would have been totally improbable that I would have eaten.”

Feels Years Long Has Beens Seems Blood Long Time Years Ago Vegetarian Improbable Sausage Really Long Snail

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.”

Inspirational Humor Inspiration Funny Comedian Diets Vegetarian Sunlight Vegetarianism Vegetarian Food Leaning In Funny Comedian

Author:Rita Rudner

“I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.”

Knows Firsts Film White Audience Shots Smoke Vegetarian Weed Castles Disappointing Fast Food Smoke Weed

Author:Kal Penn

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”

Trouble Expectations Fruit Bitter Harvest Johnny Appleseed

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

“I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.”

Children War Done Age Lying Views Century Weight Ancient Credit Civil War Twelve Veteran War Veteran

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“I was a very autonomous and independent person with an inner life that nobody else had ever touched or perceived.”

Frances Conversations With Friends

Author:Sally Rooney

Source: Conversations with Friends

“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!”

School Middle Late High School Awkward

Author:Aaron Tveit

“I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.”

Ifs Should Persons Mouths Awful Journalist Interviews Preconceptions

Author:Isabel Allende

“I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.”

World Simple Player Worst Musician Guitar Performing Solo Guitar Player

Author:Loren Mazzacane Connors

“I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.”

Knows Want Wanted School Teacher Students Hated Insulting

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I was a very confident little kid.”

Littles Kids Little Kid

Author:Tina Fey

“I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.”

Persons Wanted Parent Curious

Author:Martha Stewart

“I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.”

People Knows Want Kids Causes Tough Angry Sensitive

Author:Pink

“I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.”

Believe Children Wanted Father Creative

Author:Sadie Frost

“I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make a life? Who am I going to be when I grow up? Will there be a place for me in the world? Acting gave me a sense of purpose, but it also gave me a sense that I would survive, that I would find my place.”

World Way Different Happens Kids Purpose Grows Acting Growing Up Imagine Determined

Author:Linda Hunt

“I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.”

Boys Heard Tears One Day Singers Touched Melancholy Egyptian Mosques

Author:Shahin Najafi

“I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.”

Children Mother Reading Difficult

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.”

Way Writing Persons Helping Teach Driven Meaningful Hopefully

Author:Mark Nepo

“I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.”

Ideas Believer Convergence

Author:Jean-Marie Messier

“I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.”

Hard School Parent Class Boys Crazy Hard Work Bottom Earnest

Author:Ridley Scott

“I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.”

Problem Kids School Felt Acting Normal Seats Extroverts Cafeteria Prima Donnas

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.”

People Thinking Trying Littles Kids Half Worst Kissing Empty Glasses Bites Fearful Little Kid Half Empty

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.”

Moments Wanted Determined Focused Internals Yearning Determined Woman

Author:Isha Judd

“I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.”

Years Two Kids School Jobs Lasts Hours Growing Crazy High School Balls Focused Billions Lifestyle Last Year Gymnastics Energetic Adhd Handball

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.”

Teenager Cute

Author:Lance Bass

“I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.”

Father Player Football Baseball Very Good Football Player Playing Baseball Good Baseball

Author:John Malkovich

“I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.”

Kids Player Football Baseball Very Good Baseball Player Football Player Good Baseball

Author:John Malkovich

“I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.”

Very Good Cooks Good Cook

Author:Martha Stewart

“I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.”

Long Different Girl Perfect Acting Stage Long Time Angry Very Good Different Things Outrageous Good Girl

Author:Joan Allen

“I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.”

Years Stills Whole Three Class Cutting Week Students Internet Paper Very Good Awful Grades Papers Disillusioned Sophomore Good Students Good Grades Sophomore Year

Author:Zach Condon

“I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.”

Player Moved Very Good Tennis Canada Los Angeles Tennis Player Ottawa

Author:Matthew Perry

“I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.”

Hard Painter Vans Geometric

Author:Warren MacKenzie

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