I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.
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When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr... HARRISON FORD When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy. CAROLINE CORR I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dal... JESSE PLEMONS I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four... ADELAIDE KANE When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous ... RICK BAKER I was so distracted when walking out of the restroom that I hadn't noticed Rose standing nearby with... RICHELLE MEAD When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I ... ARTHUR MILLER You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Personally, I think I did horribly on him in the first half. I think when I started guarding him, he... BOBBY FRASOR I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa... SUE MONK KIDD I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I wa... RAE CARSON I knew we were more of a second-half team and that we would come out hard and finish the opportuniti... MATT LOVELAND I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was rais... MEGHAN DAUM Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me... JACK ANTONOFF I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was ve... CHANTAL AKERMAN From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt v... PATTI SMITH I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. 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have of it. STEPHEN LEACOCK A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie... STEPHEN LEACOCK I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume... STEPHEN DALDRY In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp... STEPHEN COLBERT The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i... STEPHEN COLE Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. STEPHEN LEACOCK As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo... STEPHEN GRAHAM Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its... STEPHEN CURRY If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re... STEPHEN KING I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. STEPHEN BALDWIN The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz... STEPHEN COVEY Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. STEPHEN FRY And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i... STEPHEN KING Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. STEPHEN KING Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. STEPHEN SWID Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. STEPHEN LEACOCK He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ... STEPHEN KING Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ... STEPHEN HAWKING After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ... STEPHEN KING The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th... STEPHEN HAWKING If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha... STEPHEN LEVINE Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. STEPHEN LEVINE (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se... STEPHEN KING But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ... STEPHEN FRY People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the... STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A... STEPHEN KINZER Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w... STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. STEPHEN FRY After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. STEPHEN KINZER Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t... STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num... STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa... STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec... STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with... STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo... STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night;
For though the day be never so longe,
At last the ... STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ... STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t... STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto... STEPHEN CHBOSKY please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An... STEPHEN CHBOSKY And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough STEPHEN CHBOSKY He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. STEPHEN CHBOSKY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Enjoy it. Because it's happening. STEPHEN CHBOSKY This moment will just be another story someday. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY