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“I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.”

“I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.”

“I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.”

People Wanted Guy Interesting Professors Tenure

Author:Robert Barry

“I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.”

Knows Children Has Beens I Can Parent Know How Gratitude Mess Grandparent Adopted Adopted Children

Author:James Earl Jones

“I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.”

Said Feelings Light Used Guy White Rooms Audience Saws Streets Cold Shapes Adults Victim Performing Sensations Caves Festivals Plague Fringe Spine Really Weird Edinburgh Weird Feeling

Author:Rhys Darby

“I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.”

Differences Conversation Adults Argument

Author:Marion Dane Bauer

Source: A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction

“I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.”

Kids Acting Adults Supposed To Be

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”

Feminism Empowerment Wander Exploration Strong Women Wandering Wanderer Roman Payne Wanderess The Wanderess

Author:Roman Payne

Source: The Wanderess

“I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.”

Trying Parent Married Adventurer

Author:Jacki Weaver

“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.”

People Ifs Made Said Running Mistake Economy Happened Movement Fine Industry Smart Fundamentals Financial Appearance Credit Collapse Freeze Viewpoints Bankruptcy Smart People Deregulation

Author:Richard Posner

“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.”

People Ifs Made Running Mistake Economy Happened Movement Industry Smart Fundamentals Financial Credit Collapse Freeze Bankruptcy Smart People Deregulation

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.”

Ideas Humanity Results Fate I Realized Agnostic Convincing Presence Of God Humanity And Nature

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”

Arguing Agnostic

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.”

Years Problem Courses Six Alcoholics

Author:Jordan Knight

“I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.”

Years School Sports Company High School Athlete Eight Chinese Champion Plus Wrestling Nutrition Ceo Professional Athlete Kickboxing Sports Nutrition

Author:Tim Ferriss

“I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.”

Ifs Way Years Games Four Player Four Years Hawks

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I was an altar boy and a choir member.”

Boys Members Altars Choir

Author:Cheech Marin

“I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.”

Humor Kids Funny Answers Boys Altars

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.”

Hands Church Boys Catholic Priests Altars Catholic Church Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church Bridesmaids

Author:Dana Gould

“I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.”

Age Boys Window Mary Virgins Altars Masturbation Choir Virgin Mary

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.”

Children Religious Class Boys My Family Altars Catechism

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.”

Believe Wanted Christian Mother Jesus I Believe Christ Boys Jesus Christ Catholic I Believe In Faithful Priests Believe In God Altars I Believe In God

Author:Hugo Chavez

“I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.”

Soul Photographer Photograph Likes Taking Pictures

Author:Erwin Blumenfeld

“I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.”

School Passion Late High School My Passion Juniors Wrestler

Author:Dave Bautista

“I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.”

Thinking Way School Acting Waiter Bartender

Author:Nick Frost

“I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs.”

“I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.”

Ifs Children Wanted School Saws Bird Window Ambitious Adventurous

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I was an angel in heaven for two days or at least I thought I was. Really I was whacked out on drugs and in ICU.”

Jules

Author:Kristen Ashley

Source: Rock Chick Renegade

“I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.”

Arms Angel Wings Broke Desert

Author:Carmen Boullosa

“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.”

Thinking Men Way Mind Different Government Young My Own My Family Blame Angry Miserable Corporations Different Ways Young Man Punk Another Way Punk Rock Rockers Festering

Author:Mark Coleman

“I was an angst-y journal writing kid.”

Writing Kids Journal Angst Journal Writing

Author:Justin Halpern

“I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.”

Animator

Author:Dan Scanlon

“I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.”

Art Class Cutting Drinking Beer Beach Chicks Beer Drinking Skater Anorexics Art Class Shoplifting Doodling

Author:Rebecca Miller

“I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called "the truth," whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane.”

Truth Answers Seeking

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

Source: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

“I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.”

Way Political Communist Anti Communist

Author:Grover Norquist

“I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.”

Long Has Beens Stills I Can Wanted Jobs Father Term Television Tvs Musician Decided Deny Long Term Engineering Disgusting Engineers Packs Apprentice Second Best

Author:Peter Ham

“I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.”

Men Littles Young Political Values Next Found Politics Nations Natural Cases Convinced Rags

Author:Mark Twain

“I was an arrow trembling against a bowstring, and you were pulling me back”

Love Metaphor

Author:K. Arsenault Rivera

Source: The Tiger’s Daughter

“I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.”

Art School New York Majors Contemporary Abstract Art History

Author:Vera Wang

“I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.”

Art Students Art Students

Author:Ray Davies

“I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.”

Men Art Self Form Artist Common Universal Great Art Great Artist Common Man

Author:Jack Kirby

“I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.”

Art Photography Artistic Visuals Visual Art Collages Dilettantes

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'”

Years Said Hard Actors Hard Work Directors I Realized Take Time Assistants Shortcuts

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.”

Agreement Assistants Confidentiality

Author:Cheryl Hines

“I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan.”

States United United States Thirds Officials Associates Attorney Assistants Ranking

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I was an atheist and I came to experience a relationship with God which had a radically transforming effect on my life, on my relationships, on every aspect of my life, for the better. So, obviously I hope other people will experience that.”

People Effects Aspect Atheist Transforming Relationship With God

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.”

Islam Atheist Open Minded

Author:Malcolm X

“I was an athlete when I was growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Athlete

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.”

Winning Athlete

Author:Katarina Witt

“I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by.”

World Life Children Attention Knowledge Childhood Bewilderment Attentiveness

Author:Laura van den Berg

Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

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