Mira Sorvino
Related A roller coaster. We went from thinking we were in it to being out of it like that. It was shocking. CLIFF FLOYD JAMES WAN Adrenaline pumped through her veins. Was it the thrill of the ride or something else making her hear... RACHEL SKATVOLD I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK JAMEELA JAMIL When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I t... BONNIE MACPHERSON There were so many emotional highs and lows in this game. It was like a roller coaster, a season in ... ANDY SCHULZ In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brai... FEDE ALVAREZ It was just a roller coaster. We didn't really get rattled or get nervous or anything like that. We ... CAMERON BENNERMAN It was like a rush of adrenaline. You wanted to dunk in front of the fans. It felt really good being... CARTER JORDAN It was like a roller-coaster. You went to the highest part and then dropped down to the lowest part.... JAVY LOPEZ As an Olympian, I know I have to prove something extra, ... In the Olympics, I was having fun. Befor... DEVIN VARGAS It was an emotional roller coaster. CAMERON BENNERMAN I just saw Steve last winter when his son was pitching against my son. Everything was looking up for... MIKE SCIOSCIA American audiences, when they sit down to watch TV, like to be taken on a roller coaster ride. They ... ANDREA WONG YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays t... SAM RILEY I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I wa... LIZZY CAPLAN When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It&... SEAN PATRICK THOMAS I was nervous at first, but after the first couple of plays it was like playing a game in high schoo... MAX STARKS It was quite a roller-coaster ride...and quite a mixed picture, DOUG PORTER OLIVIA WILDE DAN SIMMONS I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. JOSIE LOREN Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. ... BO BENNETT BJ THE CHICAGO KID ERIN WASSON CHRISTA MCAULIFFE I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my b... DIAHANN CARROLL The season was somewhat of a roller-coaster ride & but we're thrilled we're still riding. DAVE BIKE KIRSTEN DUNST CASSANDRA CLARE I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementa... GALLANT We gave a great effort, made some big plays when they counted. You know, it was just a couple of pla... BOBBY SIMMONS There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster. MICK FOLEY Being in front of people is kind of a thrill. You get nervous, but it's fun. LISA SLONE We have nothing to be ashamed of. This year has been a roller coaster. It was a constant adjustment. CHRISTINE BALDAUF REBECCA SOLNIT When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers ... RENZO ROSSO I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a l... RACHAEL LEIGH DEYTH BANGER I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid,... LANE GARRISON Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my l... IMRAN AMED When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a... C. C. H. POUNDER I'm very thankful. It was some rocky roads, roller-coaster rides throughout the season. ANDY PETTITTE ROBERT STROMBERG I felt like the first day of school or something. My heart was beating a little faster, my anticipat... CARLOS BOOZER There wasn't a cricket, a bird, a bug; it was completely dead. But out of this crucible came a famil... IRA APSEL When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ... OM PURI People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a ch... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT JULIE ANDREWS It was a little bit of a roller coaster ride. They started to hit their shots and got the crowd back... MARK ZOLLER It was like a 1930s comic book set in the future. I can't say what it was, but there was something a... JOEL SILVER After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes t... GRAZIA DELEDDA AVI Being head of the Church is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle while riding on a roller coaster. JOHN M. ALLIN It was different. I haven't done that in a long time, but I was excited about it. I prayed on it las... GREG LEWIS " Life can be like a roller coaster...And just when you think you've had enough,and your ready to ge... STACEY CHARTER I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and p... DEMIAN BICHIR What I really liked about Mary Washington was that it was a smaller school and a couple of my friend... EMMETT RUTKOWSKI I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that... CHAD SMITH Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER STEVEN STRAIT It was a roller-coaster season. We're losing some key seniors, but we have a good core of kids comin... JAY HAUGLAND TOM STOPPARD SEAN COVEY There were times when I was down and frustrated being in a male-dominated sport: you don't get t... CAROLINE BUCHANAN It was an emotional roller coaster. They had their highs; we had our highs. I think our conditioning... CAMERON BENNERMAN There was a rush to get the agreement in place. MARK LUDWIG When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Th... SAM HEUGHAN DAPHNE ZUNIGA When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was th... ALLISON BAVER If you only get one roller-coaster ride, you don't want to be thinking about the second one when... GREG POEHLER HAYLEY WILLIAMS I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel ... JENNIFER DAMIANO I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had m... JAMES FRECHEVILLE SHANNON L. ALDER JANEANE GAROFALO I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and ... SHERMAN HEMSLEY CARLTON MELLICK III TERRY PRATCHETT When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that th... JOHN MCGAHERN It's definitely been a roller coaster. I got pulled to the top of that first hill and it was a great... ADAM EATON That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better... CARLTON HILL I was in a zone, and I knew I could get down the field in those last two minutes. I felt like if the... EVAN ROYSTER LISA KLEYPAS There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw w... CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of... TORRIE WILSON MADONNA CICCONE For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had t... KYLA PRATT His lifetime best in the 500 was 5:11, so that was a pretty incredible drop. Then to do it again the... BEN THAYER It was actually very easy for me just in the sense that I got a slow roller. I saw Albert already ru... MORGAN ENSBERG JENN PROSKE When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst... LAUREN DAIGLE My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my ... ADAM SILVERA In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about ... PASTOR MALDONADO I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on t... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR It was like everything stopped. It was like there was nothing going on around me. I could hear crick... JENNY PFEIFFER JESSE JACKSON
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