As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES [In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involv... FABRICIO OBERTO I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends. CARA DELEVINGNE A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids ... ERICH BERGEN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antar... CONRAD ANKER The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place ... SHAKIRA I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball a... BRYONY SHAW I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ... ANDY DALY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young... TAMRON HALL The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m... BIG SEAN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The thing I remember most about middle school was how tough it was. You're not quite an adult, but y... JEN WATERS I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a s... DREW BLEDSOE She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising... PIERCE BROWN Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around scho... DIANNA AGRON Growing up, I think the competition at a young age with the programs here, I was able to compete wit... ABDUL HODGE When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over... BONNIE TYLER I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to w... DANIELLE PANABAKER I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m... FLUME You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've ... WINONA RYDER For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not th... GEORGE A. ROMERO I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared ea... PIPPA MIDDLETON In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Wh... LADY GAGA Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Financial literacy is such an important thing for kids to understand at a young age. Otherwise you'v... ANDY HEYWARD At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run... SUGAR RAY LEONARD As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black cha... TANANARIVE DUE I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a... NANCY ROMAN I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most day... CARLOS PONCE At a young age school came first. It was put in my head that school was first and swimming was secon... EMILY PFERDEHIRT I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, b... AARON RODGERS I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my scho... IMTIAZ ALI Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my fa... KIRK FERENTZ I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that ... ROMAN PAYNE When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our pow... RIVER PHOENIX I think for a young guy he's established himself as a closer. And not only as a guy who will take th... SHANDON ANDERSON I was somebody who was 14 years old and who got an opportunity to do a job where I could make money,... GISELE BUNDCHEN I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting ... MICHAEL HUTCHENCE I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, i... SCOTT WEILAND I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a fathe... KATHRYN HARRISON What I really liked about Mary Washington was that it was a smaller school and a couple of my friend... EMMETT RUTKOWSKI When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I wa... ROBERT GOBER We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age. CAITLYN JENNER My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We... MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The swimming was really fun and a new experience. I got to go to Universal Studios and a big mall. E... EMILY CAMPBELL So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous... MARY BONO We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi... BAILEY CHASE I've been teaching for 14 years and I've been on a bunch of field trips, but this, bar none, was the... FRANK ROMANO I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton... FOREST WHITAKER As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school.... JORDAN GAVARIS I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they ... DOMINIC MONAGHAN I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of... ANNA KENDRICK I never had a problem shooting the ball since I began shooting at a young age. Dribbling and defense... BRANDON MOTON I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buyin... BO BICE I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom... DAN SAVAGE I'm the way I am now because I was bullied when I was the lanky, gangly, skinny kid. I was the g... TREVANTE RHODES Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE
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