When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?
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Related A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect ... JASON RITTER I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatma... ZAKI I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they... BETTY GILPIN There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. N... ZENDAYA I knew going into this stretch that it was going to be rigorous, and I had no idea how my body would... GREG NORMAN In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, &... PAUL HAGGIS When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be... ROBERT FROST My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I de... JASON MRAZ If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, woul... DOUGLAS ADAMS I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because ... CHERYL TIEGS When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, ... EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And ... JASON MRAZ From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, ... V.C. ANDREWS So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to ... DUANE G. CAREY If i was to choose life, life would be my choice. If i was to choose death, i would probably already... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I spent 20 years feeling that there was something that should be happening in my life, and accepting... CHARLES THOMSON When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, ... EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That... RANI MUKERJI When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cul... PAYAL KADAKIA Even when I was much younger, whatever I did, I wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. When I ... EUGENIE BOUCHARD If I lost, so what. If I won, so what. My heart's not in it, but what else would I be doing? RONNIE O'SULLIVAN If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I... DONNA MILLS To be voted into the Hall of Fame would be the crown jewel of my career. When I look back at what I ... WARREN MOON When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else... RIHANNA When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was g... ASHLEY BENSON How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I ... JOHN ELWAY I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to d... HUSSEIN CHALAYAN I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, becau... TAYLOR SWIFT Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old... KEN BRUEN I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving... P. J. O'ROURKE If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS For dance recitals, my mom would do my makeup all extravagant because obviously I was really little ... JILLIAN HERVEY Mustang...' I rest my hand on her wrist. Despite her strength, it's frail in my hands. Frail as the ... PIERCE BROWN I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and... JERRY SPINELLI Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Ev... PALOMA PICASSO I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h... NICOLAS ROEG I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and s... BILL HADER I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story. OM PURI When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist.... RICKY MARTIN For five months I got up at six o'clock and got dressed by the lamplight. The fire would not yet be ... LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN I woke up dead. Not only dead...but in hell. I had always been somewhat sketchy on what th... PETER DAVID I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and m... PAIGE VANZANT I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived i... DANICA PATRICK When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and t... MARIPOL When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have a... KIRSTEN DUNST If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about ... LAURA MARANO I was amazed at what [God] showed me. I prayed that I would devote my life to it. JAMES FITZGERALD Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life... PIERCE BROWN If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of e... BILL GATES I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go ... DINA KUCERA I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everythin... FRANK LAYDEN I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don'... RANDY HOUSER Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... WENDELL BERRY I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. NICHOLAS SPARKS How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did ... MILAN KUNDERA This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe... DEL MCCOURY I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sen... KAT EDMONSON I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that... GWEN STEFANI I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me t... BRAD FAXON I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed... RANSOM RIGGS And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a... JEFFREY ARCHER My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible re... ALANIS MORISSETTE When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan... ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by drivin... PATRICIA BRIGGS I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate the... MATT SMITH Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deept trust, a free act of love- but sometimes it was... YANN MARTEL I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa... IMELDA MAY During the day I would move my body to the rhythm that only I could hear. I would try and connect wi... THE HIPPIE Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleep... WILL FERRELL It was all about trying, and that was what I would do. I would try. JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. DANIEL BALDWIN How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of t... ZOë MARRIOTT I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g... B. B. KING As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university prof... JAMES KAKALIOS I'd seen a lot of his type of theater and it's my type of theater so I was pretty sure I was g... JASON BALLWEBER She was amazed. I was afraid of how she would take it, but it was a great moment to be able to help ... RICK ADAMS I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they sho... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON My wife and I were talking this morning, and I said 'What if all Americans said they were not going ... EDDIE RODRIGUEZ I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't wor... WARREN CUCCURULLO I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always b... LINDA CARDELLINI My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me. PAULA MCLAIN My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better. NICOLE WILLIAMS I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do ge... BERNARD SUMNER I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to st... IYANLA VANZANT My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the ... JAKE ROBERTS I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to ... T. SCOTT MCLEOD What was described was not in my opinion expressing prosecution as the primary role of a prosecutor.... THOMAS STITH When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I ... JESSICA VALENTI The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too... EDDIE SLOVIK I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry p... LANA WOOD I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dyi... MADISON DAVENPORT When I presented at the Oscars last year, everyone would say to me, 'Where's your husband? Is there ... GWYNETH PALTROW I was afraid I would be a bit out of shape for the match but it (fatigue) did not come my way. CAMILLE PIN I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what ... MARC ALMOND When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
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I feel they should be nervous, because they are ... BONO God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo... BONO He is well-respected in business circles and brings a valuable perspective to labor-management relat... CHAZ BICKERS War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at lea... CHAZ BUFE Except breaking the rules, find the flaws in the system and use it against it because there is no pe... CHAZ BATTSETSEG We knew we were going to be a lot better than we were before. Those (wins) just brought our confiden... CHAZ ROOTS He motivated us. He told us we were going to be good this year. He told us to forget the past, and t... CHAZ ROOTS I didn't think much would happen for Christmas, but we were pleasantly surprised. CHAZ FONTENTOT I want it to get rebuilt so my mom can live there. CHAZ FONTENTOT It's a lot different here (Lancaster), but it's still nice. In New Orleans, you know, there were a l... CHAZ FONTENTOT Since we won't be building any more planes, we need to know how long the strike will last before we ... CHAZ BICKERS There are discussions still going on and the information-sharing is still happening. CHAZ BICKERS No one ever benefits from a strike. CHAZ BICKERS Our customers are counting on us, so we'll be focused on returning to production and a steady stream... CHAZ BICKERS Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, ... CHAZ BICKERS We're trying to make sure we have a contract that works for everybody. CHAZ BICKERS I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am. SONNY BONO Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die,... SONNY BONO Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation. MARY BONO Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people o... MARY BONO With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial... MARY BONO If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an ho... SONNY BONO I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred. SONNY BONO The problem people are seeing is they want new leadership and that's not offering enough new leaders... MARY BONO So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous... MARY BONO What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor... SONNY BONO Nordic walking poles are very popular in Europe; they have Nordic walking parks in Germany and the S... ANGELA BONO Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody el... SONNY BONO Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid. CHASTITY BONO I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick. SONNY BONO You burn up to 40 percent more calories with the same effort, but you're using your upper body. You ... ANGELA BONO If you take a five-mile hike with Nordic walking poles, and you're not used to using your upper body... ANGELA BONO They should coordinate their forces, but I'm not in favor of fusing the two missions, JOSE BONO Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones. JOSE BONO Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when the... MARY BONO I believe that it is Congress' obligation to every individual facing a lifetime of suffering to full... MARY BONO In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) are... MARY BONO I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wan... CHASTITY BONO You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it... SONNY BONO With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break do... SONNY BONO Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ... CHASTITY BONO For the past 6 years, it is my privilege and honor to serve as the Representative for California's 4... MARY BONO the only appropriate remedy. MARY BONO People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and se... MARY BONO I have always said that life is more important than politics. JOSE BONO It is good to evoke what happened, and to conjure up what might, happen again. Those who come togeth... JOSE BONO It could have been an accident or it could have been an attack from the exterior, JOSE BONO It could have been an accident or an attack. The causes have not been fully clarified. JOSE BONO These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in com... JOSE BONO Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analy... EDWARD DE BONO Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled th... EDWARD DE BONO If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. EDWARD DE BONO A memory is anything that happens and does not completely unhappen. The result is some trace which i... EDWARD DE BONO One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing... EDWARD DE BONO If you never change your mind, why have one? EDWARD DE BONO Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled th... 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EDWARD DE BONO Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can b... EDWARD DE BONO Logic will never change emotion or perception. EDWARD DE BONO Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativit... EDWARD DE BONO A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he'... EDWARD DE BONO One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one... EDWARD DE BONO Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in ano... EDWARD DE BONO The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but... EDWARD DE BONO Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least onc... EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. EDWARD DE BONO Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy... EDWARD DE BONO In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in hi... EDWARD DE BONO Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation wi... EDWARD DE BONO Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. EDWARD DE BONO Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain EDWARD DE BONO We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p... EDWARD DE BONO An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing wh... EDWARD DE BONO It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solvin... EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas EDWARD DE BONO Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. EDWARD DE BONO Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. EDWARD DE BONO It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ... EDWARD DE BONO One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one... EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas... EDWARD DE BONO The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model... EDWARD DE BONO Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc... EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen. EDWARD DE BONO Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. EDWARD DE BONO It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ... EDWARD DE BONO To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi... EDWARD DE BONO In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ... EDWARD DE BONO I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit... EDWARD DE BONO I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu... EDWARD DE BONO There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m... EDWARD DE BONO An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ... 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