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“I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.”

Long Reason Originals Aids Beard Really Long

Author:George Michael

“I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'”

Humor Running Kids Funny House Waiting Save Me

Author:Chris Rock

“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”

Doe Art Said Play Facts Hands Left Work Strange Fingers Reactions Thank God Dedication Hiking Bloody San Francisco Enslavement Left Hand Boulders Hurling

Author:Pablo Casals

“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”

Littles Past Science Forty Professors Biographies Oxford

Author:G. H. Hardy

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.”

Wanted Miserable

Author:Trent Reznor

“I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'”

Turns Numbers Events Strange Cancer Albums Australia

Author:Delta Goodrem

“I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me had already happened. And so the film is on the ascent. And I think that gives it a nice spirit.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Children Two Dream Bigs Film Spirit Courses Steps Nice Happened Worst Baby Decline Lowest Step Up Ascent Baby Steps Lowest Point First Baby

Author:Patti Smith

“I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.”

Thinking Art School Artist Masters Decided Mad Historian Being An Artist Art History

Author:Robert Barry

“I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.”

Happens Certain Levels Wife Player Football One Time Football Player Bonding

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I was at Plaza Athénée, where a jacket and tie was required. Andy Warhol came with his turtleneck, because he was always wearing a turtleneck, with a tie over it, and we gave him a jacket - so he had a jacket and tie over the turtleneck. It was pretty cool.”

Over It Warhol

Author:Daniel Boulud

“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.”

Years Ideas Helping Wanted Parent Four College Months Decided No Idea Help Me Four Years Reeds

Author:Steve Jobs

“I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn't what I was interested in. All of it had an impact - as did happenings - because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn't the direction I really wanted to go.”

Art

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.”

Looks School Fashion Changed Baby More Time Uniforms Spears

Author:Alexa Chung

“I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.”

Humor Funny Past Bits Sea Meat Load

Author:Tim Vine

“I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.”

Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami

Author:Haruki Murakami

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'”

Should Running President Cities Promise Republican Taxes Should Have Presses Crowds Campaigns Release Conventions Arena Printed Kansas Kansas City Press Release

Author:Wavy Gravy

“I was at the American International School for three years in Japan, and Singapore International School for two years in Hong Kong.”

Japan Singapore Hong Kong

Author:Janice Wong

“I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?" I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other.”

Marriage True Love Walking On Water

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.”

Kind School Used Theater Circles All Kinds Broadway Apollo Alleys Tin Full Circle Barbershop Tin Pan Alley Skipping School

Author:George Clinton

“I was at the beginning stages of my pregnancy, and it never really feels real anyway, until you actually start showing and you start to feel the baby kick. Fortunately I didn't have any morning sickness or anything like that. And I really didn't want to be distracted from the work at hand, so I didn't tell anybody. It was really just towards the end of shooting where I was about five months, where I needed to tell a costume designer[ of the True Detective].”

Want Feels Real Ends Hands Morning Five Stage Baby Months Needed Shooting Designer Kicks Sickness Pregnancy Costumes Distracted Detectives Morning Sickness

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“I was at the birth of my two girls.”

Two Girl Birth

Author:Clive Owen

“I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?”

Home Parent Morning Mom Adults Tables Newspapers Breakfast

Author:Brian Regan

“I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.”

Years Firsts Book Ends Hard Enjoy Focus Hard Work Drink Commitment Eight Enjoy Life Pennies

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.”

Kind Ends Rooms Studios Kitchen Makeup Magnificent Living Room

Author:Tippi Hedren

“I was at the foot of my class.”

Class Feet

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.”

People Trying Has Beens Country Happens Effort Minimum Minimum Wage Seattle Collaborating

Author:Nick Hanauer

“I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.”

Mean Ends Fronts Months Perception Thirteen

Author:Ernst Toller

Source: I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller

“I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.”

Years Two Moments Problem Film Vision Groups New York Critics Circles Damage Awards Two Days Stood Up Napkins Film Critics

Author:Bill Murray

“I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.”

Stills Games Winning Medal Doubted Olympic Games

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.”

Next Felt Race Careers Broken Promise One Day Horse Legs Broken Heart Next Day Broken Promises Pastures Pinnacle Race Horses Broken Leg

Author:Jack Klugman

“I was at the precipice. I knew it. So, then the issue was simply finding out where this journey was to take place. I needed a setting my main character would thrive in, a place that had a quality all its own. That's when it occurred to me, to use a painting.”

Character Quality Journey Painting Setting Place

Author:Kristina Smeriglio

Source: Falling Into Fire

“I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.”

Art School Artist Teacher Development Training Royal Art School Art Teacher

Author:Josef Albers

“I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life”

Years Mean Stills Plans Figures Twenties Curator Smithsonian

Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I was at the South-Eastern wall, and looking out through The Great Embrasure towards the Three Silver-fire Holes, that shone before the Thing That Nods, away down, far in the South-East. Southward of this, but nearer, there rose the vast bulk of the South-East Watcher—The Watching Thing of the South-East. And to the right and to the left of the squat monster burned the Torches; maybe half-a-mile upon each side; yet sufficient light they threw to show the lumbered-forward head of the never-sleeping Brute.”

Sci Fi Middle English

Author:William Hope Hodgson

Source: The Night Land

“I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.”

Trying States Three United Talking Roles United States Tables Dramatic Reports Lunch Protocol Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:John Christy

“I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.”

Years Ends Remember Next Games Growing Up Growing Brother Seven Tails Seven Years Playing Games

Author:Ali Smith

“I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.”

Waiting Difficult President Party Emotional Speech Vices Christmas Just One Spectacular Difficult Things Vice President Christmas Party

Author:Bradley Whitford

“I was at the Wal-Mart, which is where I think everybody goes eventually. If they die without Christ.”

Ifs Thinking Dies Christ

Author:Emo Philips

“I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of the commission said to us: "You are spending taxpayer money to study issues like inequality? Which goes directly against capitalism and growth." That was the perception, that it should not be studied.”

World Growth Study Perception Capitalism Inequality

Author:Branko Milanovic

“I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.”

Ifs Said Humor Running Funny Moving Guy My Own Fire Comedy Legs Block Gambling This Guy Exit Own Business Casinos Mind Your Own Business Minding My Own Business

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life and they can do what they want and you shouldn't think anything of it or anything. But man, I couldn't help but flinch a little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I didn't.”

Drug Addiction Drugs Addict User Rollins

Author:Henry Rollins

Source: The First Five

“I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.”

World Religion Atheism Creating Angry Atheist Contradiction Proof That God Exists Proof God Exists

Author:C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'”

Acting Study Modern Drama University

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I was at work but my soul wasn't there, my body was there but I wasn't connecting to what I was doing. Eventually I decided to get out of there and do something I believe in.”

Believe Soul Body I Believe Decided I Believe In My Soul Connecting

Author:Fred Foster

“I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.”

Thinking Way Said States Seems Black Term United United States Conditions Poet Understood Yale Precarious

Author:Claudia Rankine

“I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.”

Years Persons School Gay Suicide Commit Miserable Yale Freshman Freshman Year

Author:Larry Kramer

“I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust”

Angel Dust One Time Yankees Stadiums Yankee Stadium

Author:Artie Lange

“I was attached to star in a project that was going to be an unbelievable character piece, to be showcased all over the world. It was everything I had been working toward and had suffered for. I had two months to prep and pretty much bankrupted myself in the process. A week before I was supposed to get on the plane, the whole project fell apart. Not only did it leave me completely broke and out of work, but I felt as if I had been betrayed by acting. Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am. I was shattered. Thankfully, the love of those around me helped push me forward.”

Ifs World Two Whole Character Stars Felt Process Acting Pieces Week Months Projects Who I Am Broke Planes Unbelievable Betrayed Leaving Me Shattered Two Months Preps

Author:Jonathan Keltz

“I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.”

“I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose.”

Want Night Accepting Brother Standing Notes Council Hawks Kitties Grandiose Bluffs Wright Brothers

Author:Newt Gingrich

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