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I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it. — Harry Shum Jr.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame. — Brenda Lee

The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college. — Peter Cameron

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us. — Saul Perlmutter

I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic. — Rick Yancey

So, I need to reacquaint myself with this sort of celebrity person I seem to be. Someone who was in an iconic, blockbuster film called Star Wars. — Carrie Fisher

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts. — Bill Walton

I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn't understand anything and was a pain to have around. — Embee

I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as you had somebody good. — Cath Crowley

I was looking for long term, and, my Lev ... he would give me long term. My heart belonged to him. Lord help the person who tried to get between us. — Belle Aurora

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. — Jim Fowler

Made a lot of changes
But not forgetting who i was — One Direction

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles. — James Nesbitt

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual. — Misty Copeland

I don't know who thought up waxing, but it was clearly the same person who invented Vicodin. — Chelsea Handler

Evidently, my judgment was so off, the only men I wanted were the ones who would treat me like shit. — Lauren Stewart

I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life. — Sarah Shahi

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.' — CJ Adams

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing. — Joss Sheldon

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — H.L. Mencken

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

I was a total introvert who did not belong in public. It was my service to everyone. — Tiffany King

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was. — Patricia Riggen

I didn't change Reid Alexander. I just helped him uncover who he always was, at his core. — Tammara Webber

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am. — Sofia Vergara

But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics! — Woody Allen

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star. — Uday Kiran

People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl. — Elizabeth Jagger

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous. — Joe Rogan

Nd that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was — Jack Kerouac

No, the ache in my chest was that I felt alone. That there were no other humans in the world who knew what I knew. I — Peter Swanson

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski

I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with. — Marc Ashton

Because I figured out who I was- the man who had been born to love you. — Erin McCarthy

Who I was as a person was more than what I looked like, but then again, how people saw me was a part of who I was. I — A. Igoni Barrett

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us. — Richard Flanagan

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. — Dakota Fanning

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was. — Chad Kultgen

However, my wine told me not to worry about it. And who was I to argue with wine? It had never steered me wrong before. — Aly Martinez

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am. — Larry Winget

I'm dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshiped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one on the Adam's apple. — David Sedaris

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase. — Nick Kroll

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. — Sidney Altman

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney

Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like. — Jennifer Lopez

I miss him," I whisper, enable to hold Cal's gaze. "I miss who I thought he was. — Victoria Aveyard

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is. — Karl Lagerfeld

I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics. — Jason Fuchs

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old. — Rebecca Black

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made. — Erin Morgenstern

Dawn, Cillian. That is how long I'll wait for your apology. For you to remember you were nothing but a puppet king who forgot he was on strings. — J.J. McAvoy

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind. — Dave Willis

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight. — Jennifer Garner

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool. — Peter Jacobson

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory. — Lanny Wadkins

He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness. — John Green

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat For Lashes

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be. — Stephanie Dray

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation. — Simin Daneshvar

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old. — K.d. Lang

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing. — Goose Gossage

I know many friends who loved their sororities. I wasn't traumatized. I was just bored. — Mindy Kaling

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim. — Rachel Hunter

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for? — Marla Maples

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. — David Benioff

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing. — Carol Burnett

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled. — Marguerite De Navarre

She was lonely. Who isn't lonely, I'd like to know? And that includes people who do have someone but just haven't noticed. — Magda Szabo

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. — Tom Peters

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.' — Michelle Branch

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. — Sebastian Pinera

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. — Robert Smith

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids. — Patrick Rothfuss

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. — Sandra Cisneros

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here — Billy Connolly

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. — Melody Beattie

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me. — Irving Townsend

I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy. — Douglas Adams

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation. — Jeffrey Bernard

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve. — Marcia Gay Harden

I was sorry for her, as I am for any who are evicted from their haunts by the younger and stronger - always a sad occasion for man or beast. — E.B. White

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently. — Werner Herzog

And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all. — Jacqueline Koyanagi

I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
- Emo Phillips — Stella Atrium

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of. — Scott Turow

You can't bluff your way past everyone."
"You mean about filleting that guy?" Sera returned.
"Who said I was bluffing? — Erin Kellison

Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there. — Jacqueline Bisset

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me. — Dan Shechtman

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. — Amy Adams

I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was. — Zach Braff

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really. — Fiona Apple

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter. — Nick Vujicic

That other woman may have entered his thoughts every now and then, but only as a regret. I was the one who had his full attention now. — S.J. Pajonas

Cole, who had kissed me. Cole, who had refused to discuss it afterwards. Okay, fine. I had refused. Cole, who was driving me flipping crazy. — Gena Showalter