I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman
Related The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father... CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father... CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heis... BARRY SANDERS Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it lo... JOSHUA JACKSON I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do. JACK DEE For a time period during my life, I didn't know whose life I was trying to live ? my mother's or min... JOAN RANDALL I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever see... JOSHUA JACKSON For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many y... NOLAN RYAN We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she... DON BUEHNER I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I want... JULIE DELPY My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. ALICE SEBOLD The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happen... KATE VOEGELE I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thou... LANA DEL REY (It was) the first time I couldn't perform in my entire life. Took a sabbatical (but) didn't know th... DOUG FERRARI I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never c... BRETT BUTLER I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. MARLEE MATLIN I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ... EMMELINE PANKHURST I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy... BILL CLEGG I know you are mine,not in my life but in my memories PAVANKUMARGUPTHA Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for any... KELLY LYNCH I had spent my career prosecuting people accused of murder saying murder was wrong. I couldn't justi... BARBARA KESHEN Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted no... ORLA BRADY I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my... ANNE PERRY As a child, I was attractive to paedophiles. I suppose being indecently assaulted when I was 13 year... STEPHEN RICHARDS Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't m... DIDO ARMSTRONG It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauti... HENRY WALTER BATES South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, a... JANN KLOSE Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that ... MICHAEL JACKSON I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team. JUST FONTAINE I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a... ABIGAIL WASHBURN It was disturbing because it was my professor and I know he has a life outside of USI, but it was we... CLARISSA RIETVELD It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was g... BARBARA BUSH I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry. FELIX DENNIS The years I spent at Pacific were some of the best of my life. I met my wife and formed lifelong fri... JEFF BREHAUT I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you an... NICK HORNBY It is extremely painful to have spent my life asking 'how can I help you?' while others continually ... CRISTABEL MICHAELS I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, be... COLLEEN HOOVER I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my... KATE FORSYTH I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my ... EVEL KNIEVEL Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends ... RABIH ALAMEDDINE I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I did... MARIAN KEYES When James disappeared I had to disappear too, and that was a very painful thing in my life. Painful... DAN HUNT Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I’m counting... BARBARA KINGSOLVER And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled ... CHERYL TIEGS I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were... STEPHEN FURST I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Bo... GORDON GEE There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the fi... LIZZO I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my te... SARA ZARR The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a life... JENNIFER GARNER But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of... GEORG BRANDES Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they... IIMANI DAVID I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying... JOHN KASICH Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in ... BRIAN CLOUGH These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... INGRID BETANCOURT I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my l... CAITLYN JENNER My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m... ISABEL ALLENDE There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I firs... ANNA DIOP My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society... RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you ... DENNIS CHRISTOPHER This is the best five years I spent anywhere in my life. I didn't have anything but one book bag whe... CARL KRAUSER Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the f... JERRY ROBINSON I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re... STEVE MARTIN I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s... MAYA LIN When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convince... TAYLOR JENKINS REID The camp was liberated, but we as human beings were not. That was the saddest day of my life. For th... JACK TERRY Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my w... ANNE BISHOP I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, t... DANIELLE DE NIESE I'm afraid Eddie the Eagle was before my time. All I know is that his glasses were three times t... SIMON AMMANN I know this decision before us can be painful for everyone involved, ... But I also know the BRAC pr... ANTHONY PRINCIPI I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vuln... MICHAEL CERA I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. ... RUFUS SEWELL I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I was... MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY I spent 20 years feeling that there was something that should be happening in my life, and accepting... CHARLES THOMSON Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs... BRIAN CLOUGH This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux In... MARC FORGIONE Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. MARKUS ZUSAK I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you kn... CASSADEE POPE When everyone looks weird to you, who's weird? JIM GENOVESE I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amus... AISHA TYLER And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ... MARY SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, ... KELLEY ARMSTRONG An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of ... SHILPA SHETTY I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort ... WIL WHEATON For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I h... GARY KEMP All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they'd think it was wei... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ I spent 40 years of my life getting us here, ... The idea that I would be the excuse to cannibalize ... NEWT GINGRICH I've spent my life wondering when I would earn the right to be a man again. Despite the undeserved g... JACK HECKEL I now understand that I would never have been able to become a plausible critic of the absurdities o... THOMAS C. ODEN It was weird to get my first at-bat before I pitched my first inning. That helped me relax. I was ju... PAUL MAHOLM I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should... PAULA DEEN In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself t... BRUCE DICKINSON I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. SAUL LEITER My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, of... ANDY SERKIS I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for ... BETH MOORE
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