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“I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.”

Knows Kind Play Shows Wanted Guy Class Groups Moon Radio Silly Far Away Show Business Clown Announcers

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.”

Made Enough Class Feet Childhood Made It Clown

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.”

Way Children Has Beens Universe Middle Classic Priests Could Have Been Middle Child

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.”

Goal Classic Score

Author:Michel Patini

“I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.”

Author:Susan Howatch

“I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.”

Men Trying Ideas Shows Weakness Men And Women Chiefs Combat Commanders Commander In Chief Demoralized Women In Combat

Author:George W. Bush

“I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.”

Feels Persons Enough Remember Used My Family Good Enough

Author:Rapsody

“I was the daughter of my father's wife. I spoke in a trembly voice. I became pale, ill, and more thin. I let myself become a wounded animal. I let the hunter come to me and turn me into a tiger ghost. I willingly gave up my chi , the spirit that caused me so much pain. Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.”

Playing Roles

Author:Amy Tan

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.”

Important School Mother Teacher Daughter

Author:Amy Poehler

“I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.”

World Different Reality Different Realities

Author:Rosemary Clement-Moore

“I was the devil, the sin, the guilt.”

Darkness Confession Self Loathing

Author:Neda Aria

Source: Red Wings: A Lust in Paris Novel - Vol. I

“I was the dhampir daughter of the family patriarch, the little known stain on an otherwise immaculate record. Louis-Cesare, on the other hand, was vamp royalty. The only Child of Mircea’s younger, and far stranger, brother Radu, he was a first-level master--the highest and rarest vampire rank. A month ago, the prince and the pariah had crossed paths because we had one thing in common: we were very good at killing things. And Mircea’s bug-eyed crazy brother Vlad had needed killing if anyone ever had. The collaboration hadn’t exactly been stress free, but to my surprise, we eventually sorted things out and got the job done. By the end, I’d even started to think that it was kind of nice, having someone to watch my back for a change. Sometimes, I could be really stupid.”

Louis Cesare Dorina

Author:Karen Chance

Source: Death's Mistress

“I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations. It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.”

Self Esteem Goals Hiking Young Girl Empower Women

Author:Aspen Matis

Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

“I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.”

School Numbers High School Musical Up And Down Hallways Dork

Author:Amy Adams

“I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me.”

Writing Song Band Drummer

Author:Ryan Hemsworth

“I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.”

Friendship Youth Friends Confidence Self Confidence Yourself

Author:Kody Keplinger

Source: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.”

World Sun News Chiefs Executives Editors Chief Executives

Author:Rebekah Brooks

“I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.”

Thinking Humor School Funny Girl Known Comedy Drama Clubs Newspapers Traditional Editors Choir Popular Girl Drama Club

Author:Tina Fey

“I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.”

Beautiful Faces Used Mother Four Mines Clothes Daughter Dresses Victorian Eldest Pretty Face Younger Sister Eldest Daughter

Author:Sadie Frost

“I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make the film. And I believed the director should be that one man. One man should do it - I didn't give a damn who. I just couldn't accept art as a committee. I could only accept art as an extension of an individual.”

Men Giving Should Art Film Individual Accepting Enemy Directors Majors Studios Damn One Man Committees Extensions

Author:Frank Capra

“I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.”

Years Littles Art Fame Directors Claims Magazines Greek Executives Editors Accents Art Director

Author:Jane Haddam

“I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.”

School Obsession Spelling Memorizing

Author:Shelley Hennig

“I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.”

Kids Defense Fats Mechanism Defense Mechanisms Fat Kid

Author:Peter DeLuise

“I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.”

Baby Newspapers Prize County Arkansas Turnips

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.”

Littles America Film Found Speak Comedy Week Shots Female Towns Bills China Chinese Lead In Shanghai Indie Films

Author:Eliza Coupe

“I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.”

Generations My Generation Brando

Author:Bette Davis

“I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.”

Children Girl Father Black Community Poor Boys Survival Our Family Bless Black Family

Author:Cecil Williams

“I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.”

People Firsts Said States United Enemy United States New York Position Magazines Establishment New York Times Time Magazine

Author:Gore Vidal

“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!”

Firsts Stills Actresses

Author:Eva Gabor

“I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.”

Firsts Said Done Names Lines Products Actresses Best Things Branded

Author:Jaclyn Smith

“I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.”

Firsts Art Might Officials Council Indigenous

Author:Michael Longley

“I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.”

Firsts Training Shoes Athlete Standpoint Signatures Adidas

Author:Keyshawn Johnson

“I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.”

Firsts Blunt

Author:Roy Blunt

“I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.”

Inspirational Firsts Funny Boys College Graduates Graduation Kennedy Family

Author:Mark Kennedy

“I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.”

Firsts Europe Marrying

Author:Gloria Swanson

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”

Writing Firsts Sentences

Author:Gary Soto

“I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.”

Ifs Knows Mind Firsts Made Important Winning Liberty Opinion Risk Criticism Critics Makers Humbling

Author:John Lahr

“I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.”

Love Age Young Death Father Parent Born Family Relationship Son Hair Birth Memory Child Die Old Face Bald

Author:Anthony Liccione

“I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`.”

Firsts Home Film Sex Symbols Britain Jungle Naughty Diana Columnists Sex Symbol Postcards Asphalt First Home

Author:Diana Dors

“I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.”

Firsts Careers New York Models Indian Paris Milan

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.”

Firsts Night Stars Opera Movie Star Soap Plunge Soap Operas Night Time

Author:Dorothy Malone

“I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.”

Years Firsts Persons Would Be Certain Force Air Position Return Expectations Reasonable Desirable Navy Marine Astronaut Air Force Years Of Service Return Back

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I was the first one in my family to go to college.”

Firsts College My Family

Author:Joe Lhota

“I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.”

Firsts Lasts Gym

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I was the first person Donald Trump threatened to sue on Twitter.”

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.”

Firsts Persons States School Born United United States Grew Mom Dad Mets Grew Up My Family My Dad My Mom Iran First Person Pianist Belgium Croatia

Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“I was the first person that had been so kind to Iman Abdulmajid. As time went on, and she became successful, signed with an agency, when she had to make big decisions, she wouldn't always talk to an agent, she'd ask me. I'd give her good advice and she'd be on her way. When I had ideas to do things like the Black Girls Coalition, I would always talk to her, she always loved my ideas. She trusts me.”

Way Giving Firsts Kind Persons Ideas Bigs Girl Asks Black Decision Successful Advice Agents Ask Me Agency Trust Me First Person Good Advice Coalitions Black Girl Iman Big Decisions

Author:Bethann Hardison

“I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.”

Firsts Persons America Political Views New York Happenings Point Of View Latin First Person Latin America Latin American

Author:Ruben Blades

“I was the first person to go to university from my family.”

Firsts Persons My Family University First Person

Author:Ellie Goulding

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