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“I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.”

Thinking Moved Atoms Walt Watchers Anime Avid Dalmatians

Author:Akira Toriyama

“I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips”

Wells Boys Fans Lovers Radio Comic Great Love Alaska Avid Comic Strips Great Lovers

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.”

Reader 80s Avid Futurist

Author:Hermann E. Ott

“I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.”

States Age Swimmer Avid

Author:Apolo Ohno

“I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Individual Republican Court Favors Supreme Governors Supreme Court Pro Life Wade Roe V Wade

Author:Mitt Romney

“I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.”

Revolutionary

Author:Boots Riley

“I was an awkward kid.”

Kids Awkward

Author:Louis C. K.

“I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.”

Has Beens Loss Months Internet Six Late Access Six Months

Author:Charles Stross

“I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.”

Children Book Hands Father Reader Grandmother Volume Grandchildren My Grandmother Forbidden Delighted Frivolous

Author:Alan Bradley

“I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.”

Ifs Knows Humans Two Different Human Beings Vision Different Things Economist Two Different Things

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.”

Wells Done School Girl Teacher Dad High School My Dad Average Educated English Teacher Usc

Author:Marlo Thomas

“I was an eight-year-old kid when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing way back in 1969 and there was something about that moment that really stuck in my head. I'd always been interested in space and flying and I was building model rockets and model airplanes, but something about that moment, I can remember like it was yesterday watching the Apollo Lunar Lander approach the surface of the Moon and then later watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take the first steps on the Moon, and something that day started the dream for me that, hey, I want to be like those guys.”

Moments Dream Kids Remember Guy Building Moon Stuck Flying Airplane Moon Landing

Author:Leroy Chiao

“I was an elementary school teacher.”

School Teacher Elementary School School Teachers

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“I was an elk," Jerry answered, "And you were the one with the rifle.”

Romance Novel Sad Science Fiction Psychological Sad Quotes Science Fiction Romance

Author:Sude Özbey

Source: Nocturnal Reveries: A Novel

“I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Freak

Author:Scotty McCreery

“I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'”

Giving Exercise Please Messages Research Rounds Lists Statements Department Embarrassment Publication Assessment

Author:Peter Higgs

“I was an emotional basket case.”

Cases Emotional Baskets

Author:Jennifer Capriati

“I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.”

Knows Years Feelings Happens Emotion Know How Emotional Cold Fighter Take Time It Takes Time Manipulator

Author:Mike Tyson

“I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all―just the one small piece. He deserved better than that―better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.”

Littles Order Fall House Rooms Pieces Fronts Months Amount Empty Investment Shells Falling Down Vacant Small Pieces Empty Shell Fixers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.”

People Majors Bases University Impression Magazines Shy Editors Campus Minnesota English Major Misinterpreted Wrong Impression

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.”

Years Left Acting Majors Ucla English Major

Author:James Franco

“I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.”

Art Humanity College Fine Majors Minors Fine Arts English Major Arts And Humanities

Author:Sue Grafton

“I was an English major in college!”

College Majors English Major

Author:Maggie Siff

“I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.”

Years School Three College Majors University Three Years Graduates Carolina North Carolina Graduate School English Major

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.”

Art College Program Instinct English Major

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.”

College Degrees Majors Grades English Major

Author:Josh Lieb

“I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.”

Writing Years Courses Creative College Majors Newspapers Reporters Creative Writing English Major Newspaper Reporters

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.”

Book Kids Novel Majors University English Major

Author:Dan Mangan

“I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.”

Possibility Theory Majors Discussing English Major

Author:William Mapother

“I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.”

Stories Literature Majors Narrative English Literature

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.”

Kids Entertainers

Author:Micky Dolenz

“I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.”

Opportunity Groups Equal Shots Patriotic Equal Opportunity Ethnic Groups

Author:William J. Clinton

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.”

Wanted Grows Growing Up Childhood Fatherhood

Author:Uma Thurman

“I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.”

School Left Hours Students Excellent

Author:Jennie Garth

“I was an executive at Columbia Pictures for ten years. I was doing great. My career was on the upswing. But, right then, was when I said I gotta quit. I gotta start my own company. I gotta be on the other side of it because I felt the strong call on my life - to tell stories that, on the face of it, might not look like a commercial movie.”

Years Looks Said Stories Might Faces Strong Felt Sides My Own Company Careers Ten Quitting Executives Columbia

Author:DeVon Franklin

“I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.”

People Ifs Want Courses Grows Forget Careers Audience One Thing Producers Executives Fever

Author:Nina Jacobson

“I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.”

People Mean Ideas Running Company Groups Becoming Faults Reactions No Idea Executives Founders Ceo

Author:Ben Horowitz

“I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.”

Years Littles Cutting Hair Extremes Gymnastics Pixies

Author:Serinda Swan

“I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.”

Boys Introvert Introverted

Author:Robert B. Laughlin

“I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.”

People Thinking Kids Acting Laughing Cry Singing I Realized Enjoyed Performing Making People Laugh

Author:Rob Delaney

“I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.”

Term Careers Building Idiot Great Times Had A Great Time

Author:Sally Kellerman

“I was an idiot when I was a kid.”

Kids Idiot

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.”

People Years Wells Has Beens Guy Known Release Impressed Ignored Well Known Cds Being Ignored

Author:Yoshi Wada

“I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.”

Ifs Years Moving Moved Aliens Illegal Visa Illegal Aliens

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I was an illegal immigrant.”

Immigrants Illegal Illegal Immigrants

Author:Salma Hayek

“I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!”

Science Simple Worthy Formulas Chemicals Atoms Associates Corrections Hydrogen Chlorine

Author:Auguste Laurent

Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method

“I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.”

People World Found Attitude Incredibles Sense Of Humor

Author:Terry Gilliam

“I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But even so, there were still people who thought that a girl like me with a background like mine wasn't really "college material."”

People Girl Morning Study Students College Wake Up

Author:Michelle Obama

“I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting”

People Age Interesting Smart Relate Not Sure Misanthrope

Author:Laura Marling

“I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody”

Pining

Author:Brian May

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