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“I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied — so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.”

I Can Today School Half Scared Bullied

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I was tossed into a pool beside the Suwannee River. Out behind an old motel. Sink or swim. Arms flailing in the deep end. Chlorine and Fear. I hurt my shoulder. Tweaked my ankle. Had to be pulled out. They laughed about it all summer. Now pools are reminders. That your friends watched you sink.”

Fear Friends Swimming Swimming Pool Reminder

Author:Damon Thomas

Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale

“I was tossed into this place, I'll be tossed out, and all the stuff in between is a big fuckin' fight.”

Life Philosophy Life Outlook

Author:Jay Reatard

“I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.”

World Painting Dimensions Another World

Author:Prince Charles

“I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.”

Littles Girl Dolls

Author:Jennifer Damiano

“I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.”

Fall Girl Social Falling In Love Scared Interaction Clueless Social Interaction

Author:Rob Sheffield

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.”

Years Four Four Years Tides Bucks Devastated Tidy

Author:Tommy Rettig

“I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'”

Humans Children Littles Real Human Beings Married Moved Real Life Cartoon Rabbits Babe Jessica Christina Married With Children

Author:Pete Wentz

“I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.”

Way Hard Whole Running Belief Social Sports Media Football Hard Work Training Whole Life Alternatives Call Me Mainstream Hippie Social Life

Author:Gabe Jennings

“I was totally into jazz in my teens.”

Jazz Teens

Author:Andy Summers

“I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.”

World Looks Ideas Artist Song Comedy Involved Sitting Meetings Scripts

Author:Howie Mandel

“I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.”

Ideas Young Doors Los Angeles Hanging Out

Author:Lykke Li

“I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.”

Government Social Sex Gone Lifetime Spread Consideration Homosexuality Homosexual Taboo Sanctions Short Time Homosexual Marriage

Author:John Naisbitt

“I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read [Buckminster Fuller] self-representation, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it.”

Want Writing Self Taken Starting Myth Representation Archives Misrepresentation Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.”

Film Television Industry Canada Film Industry

Author:Samantha Bee

“I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.”

Way Magic Guitar Communicate My Way Touched

Author:Juanes

“I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.”

Ideas Law Force Driving Primaries Touching Law Enforcement Enforcement Autonomous Driving Force

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.”

Used Tough Advantage Ruthless

Author:Leon Uris

“I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.”

Feels Audience Touring

Author:Chris Blackwell

“I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.”

Ideas Process Outcomes Engaged Ambivalence

Author:Lissie

“I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.”

Actors Stuff Excited Dramatic

Author:Spencer Boldman

“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented.”

Way Two Ideas Matter Philosophy Position Agree Historical Philosopher Firm Confused Distinction Usual Validity Leading Me Assessing Historical Context

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.”

Kind Political Special Discipline Scientist Profession Strikes Bored Mainstream Frank Bores Medieval Scholasticism

Author:James C. Scott

“I was trained as a straight dramatist.”

Author:Josh Gad

“I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.”

Actresses Punk Convincing

Author:Jenny Eclair

“I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent, and he sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.”

Giving Book School Happened Tvs Mets Lucky Luck Agents Pilots Auditions So Lucky Showcase Conservatory

Author:Abby Brammell

“I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.”

Rocks College Band Guitar Piano Obsessed Los Angeles Rebel Youngsters Rock Bands Playing Guitar Indie Rock

Author:Jeff Cardoni

“I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.”

Knows May Levels Acting Know How Teacher Taught Method Tables Crafts Obliged Ballerina Violinist Method Acting Acting Teachers

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.”

People Ifs Want Said Done Moving Groups Husband Piano My Husband Things Done

Author:Eleanor Robson Belmont

“I was trained by senior managers to instruct high altitude workers to discharge large amounts of industrial gas into the indoor environment without respiratory protection and without oxygen deficiency monitors.”

Environment Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Oxygen Deficiency Respiratory

Author:Steven Magee

“I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.”

Giving Kind Theater Stella Adler

Author:Judd Nelson

“I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.”

Want Film Roles Drama Right Now Female Comedian Female Comedian

Author:Eliza Coupe

“I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read..."”

Teach Ears Sight Diving

Author:Chris Thile

“I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.”

Giving Philanthropy Philanthropy Giving

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.”

Giving Religious Duty Charity Philanthropy Philanthropic

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.”

People Book War Careers Generations Cold Army Caught Cold War Caught Up My Generation Espionage Infantry Books And Movies

Author:Nelson DeMille

“I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.”

Giving Crosses Bottom Blow Holes Drills Dynamite Prospecting

Author:George Saunders

Source: Tenth of December

“I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things”

People Soul Remember Literature Critics Stood Up Shelley

Author:Clifford Geertz

“I was trained in the Society of the Inner Light. Now that requires that you spend a certain amount of time in meditation, it also requires that you spend this time in early morning, because they say you're closer to the sleep state at that point.”

States Light Certain Sleep Morning Meditation Amount Early Morning Inner Light

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.”

Theater Cameras Curves Learning Curve

Author:Abby Brammell

“I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.”

Writing Stories Jobs Interesting Poor Fiction Couple Needed Magazines Short Story Non Fiction Story Writers

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.”

Cities Stage New York Theatre New York City Nyu

Author:Michaela Conlin

“I was trained professionally to connect with people as a therapist. That's job number one, having a empathetic regard towards someone who is sitting right across from you. Being able to pull whatever their needs are, their desires and the things that are troubling them and being able to address that in some way.”

People Way Needs Able Jobs Desire Numbers Sitting Regard Addresses Therapists Empathetic

Author:William Fitzsimmons

“I was trained to be an actor, not a star.”

Actors Stars

Author:Gene Hackman

“I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.”

Play Actors Stars Deals Roles Fame Presses Lawyer Agents

Author:Gene Hackman

“I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.”

People Kind Enough Problem Poverty Teaching Prepared Solve Finished I Realized Economist Phds

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.”

Thinking Way Looks Ideas Space Influence Perspective Negative Edges Honestly Colour Cubism Negative Space

Author:Rebecca Miller

“I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.”

Loneliness Laziness

Author:Bill Callahan

Source: Letters to Emma Bowlcut

“I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.”

Done Training Really Cool Scuba

Author:Ashley Scott

“I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.”

Law President Training Guitar University Lawyer Firm Secretary Bass Guitarist Glasgow Law Firms

Author:Gerard Butler

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