I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
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Related My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know ... LUPITA NYONG'O I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it w... JACK OSBOURNE I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a... JOHN KRASINSKI I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots. DISHA PATANI When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practi... CELIA HAMMOND Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitim... KEVIN MITNICK I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertatio... JANE MCGONIGAL I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being wit... QANDEEL BALOCH My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I star... ROBIN ROBERTS I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... PAUL AUSTER I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ... BARRY JENKINS In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of... PATRICK STUMP As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even t... ADAM RICKITT When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all t... STEPHENIE MEYER I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. KURT COBAIN It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were,... KATHERINE RYAN When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers b... FANTASIA BARRINO There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!' BELLA HADID I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn... KSI When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was ra... JOHN FULLER I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players... ROGER ANGELL I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm ... VALERIE HARPER I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It ... JOHN IRVING I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ... ALEXI ZENTNER When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at... TAYLOUR PAIGE I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty. ADAM LAMBERT It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn... DAN DECARLO I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort o... SARAH MCLACHLAN There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fractur... CHRIS EVANS With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story... CHESTER BROWN I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model. AMANDA SEYFRIED I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid. TYLER, THE CREATOR I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. ... DAISY FUENTES 'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on... JOE FLAHERTY When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't int... MICHAEL PHELPS I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I... RACHEL MCADAMS I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of sch... KRISTEN CONNOLLY I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, wh... KEVIN NEALON When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ... JOANNA LUMLEY It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those profession... MATTHEW MODINE Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with i... ADAN CANTO I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona... TIKA SUMPTER While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worke... EDMUND HILLARY For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we comme... CARLOS ALAZRAQUI 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effec... AARON JOHNSON I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wa... ZACH GALLIGAN I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... CHRISTINE MCVIE Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. ... MICHAEL STUHLBARG I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank... ANDRA DAY When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn'... JOHNNY GALECKI Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shu... KATHE KOJA I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn&... PAUL MCCARTNEY With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic. RICHARD DONNER There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,'... SAMIRA WILEY It?s another way of looking at the industry. I was forced to sit down and really read and learn the ... JUSTIN GAMESTER I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm ve... NOAH BAUMBACH When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time ... KHLOE KARDASHIAN My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it ra... MISTY COPELAND I was forced out of the sport into retirement through injuries. I wasn't ready to leave. DOMINIQUE MOCEANU You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug... AIMEE MANN I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why ... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM There wasn't anyone who was specifically taking me under their wing. I definitely looked up to p... WINNIE HARLOW It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a ... STEVEN BRUST I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books. JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER It was really a pathetic year. Some of the things I did — some of the crashes I was in — I didn'... KASEY KAHNE When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.... JES MACALLAN Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of... DAVID CARRADINE I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ... KATE THOMPSON No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - ... JACKIE DESHANNON I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it... JUNE LOCKHART Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of t... LAUREN BACALL I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to... WIN BUTLER I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 year... KAREN ABBOTT I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, ... GIULIANA RANCIC In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare.... EDDIE MARSAN He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock. SALLY KELLERMAN One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being ... KATE KLISE When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forc... JAY-Z When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was ab... VICTOR CRUZ I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little di... BILLY HOWLE What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And ... NINA DOBREV I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking... ALLEN GINSBERG I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very c... BEHATI PRINSLOO I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle grou... CALLAN MCAULIFFE In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ... GARY NUMAN I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about i... PAUL FLEISCHMAN
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natural right which make up the Decla... RUFUS CHOATE Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. RUFUS CHOATE There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Let the little fairy in you fly! RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The key part of your brand is a quality product. Creating exceptional content is the number one thin... RUFUS GRISCOM I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that... 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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Ov... ANNELI RUFUS I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a s... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT It has been said 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. This statement is most assuredly... RUFUS RHODEN This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. RUFUS KING I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm not crazy, I'm sanity challenged. RUFUS RHODEN We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called.... ANNELI RUFUS And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ... ANNELI RUFUS There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Life is like a box of chocolates, it mostly tastes like shit. RUFUS RHODEN There are two kinds of people I don't like being around, stupid people and ugly people. I guess that... RUFUS RHODEN Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate lov... RUFUS CHOATE There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people go... RUFUS CHOATE Good or evil? It's really just a matter of perspective. RUFUS RHODEN Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. 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ANNELI RUFUS Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob ... ANNELI RUFUS I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I woul... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun! ALLAN RUFUS I think if you lower the limits on money it would encourage our elected officials to get into their ... RUFUS JONES Dinner at eight was okay before the toast full of gleams. It was great until those old magaz... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT When all the blandishments of life are gone,
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. DR. GEORGE SEWELL Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to gov... ELIZABETH MISSING SEWELL A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertion... ELIZABETH MISSING SEWELL Obedience is the primary object of all sound education. ELIZABETH MISSING SEWELL The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat.,... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS Fear makes men believe the worst. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. RUFUS M. JONES A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 The great wonder is ... RUFUS M. JONES A book is the only immortality. RUFUS CHOATE EDWARD YOUNG