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I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I w...
FRANK OZ![]()
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ...
JAY-Z I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
JACKEE HARRY Besides steaks and fish, we're going to have meat loaf and big old burgers.
MATT BIRK I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that defi...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO![]()
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE![]()
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be...
NEEL MUKHERJEE It was not difficult because I love Houston and I have very good teammates, ... Our team is getting ...
YAO MING![]()
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me f...
PENELOPE CRUZ![]()
My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, ...
ERIC MASSA My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE When my stomach blew up, I immediately went to my gynecologist. I thought maybe it was because of th...
LISA MUHS I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.
DANIELLE FISHEL The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
DANNY MCBRIDE It was tough, but I was really young when it happened, ... It's part of life. It's something that ma...
WALI LUNDY When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hy...
DAN O'BRIEN![]()
I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on th...
HARRY DEAN STANTON I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
EVA GABOR![]()
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was o...
JANET JACKSON![]()
When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me.
JEFF VALDEZ![]()
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every...
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forc...
JAY-Z![]()
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
DAPHNE OZ My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old...
JOE ADAMS![]()
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifull...
ADRIAN LYNE When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG![]()
I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a ...
KATY PERRY No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
BILLY EICHNER![]()
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' beca...
J. K. SIMMONS I was so scared. I was very afraid. He pulled my hair and forced me and locked me in the bathroom.
ERIKA CRUZ![]()
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was co...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every ...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD 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![]()
Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but righ...
STEVE-O![]()
My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travel...
NILE RODGERS I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA It was great. I loved playing in front of a gallery. It was everything I could have expected. When I...
BRONSON BURGOON![]()
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in...
VICTOR BORGE![]()
When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfrien...
LUIS SUAREZ I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I w...
CAROLE BOUQUET When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because ...
KACEY MUSGRAVES I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until...
MAIKA MONROE![]()
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe...
RICHARD BRANSON One morning, there was minus 18 (degrees Celsius) and I was forced to train on a synthetic pitch wit...
MICHAEL THWAITE I was on the edge, I was confused and disoriented. As I was about to fall, I was saved, by that bond...
SS038NICK![]()
You may not understand completely in what ways, but it is true when I say to you that you have taugh...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who...
MEAT LOAF![]()
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th...
SITTING BULL Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my...
SHEENA EASTON I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY![]()
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
JOE BIDEN![]()
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a ...
MITCHELL HURWITZ At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the c...
ADRIáN LAMO My knee has been fine. At first, it was hard because all of the tears were from contact. Anybody bum...
LAUREN MARTENS![]()
I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all ...
OLIVIA THIRLBY At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v...
OZWALD BOATENG![]()
It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...
JEAN GENET![]()
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
MARIELLA FROSTRUP When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to...
RACHEL BLOOM![]()
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
LAURA MVULA![]()
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
CRISTIANO RONALDO![]()
When I was young, I did Baby Guess and Guess Kids - Paul Marciano saw me when I was a baby and decid...
GIGI HADID![]()
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career mo...
MILLA JOVOVICH![]()
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone...
MOTHER ANGELICA I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.
ALEXANDRE PATO I thought if I made my putt on 18, we'd be in a playoff. He just closed the door on me.
DON POOLEY When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,...
TODRICK HALL I made a lot of good laps and was very consistent today. I felt very happy because I was very fast o...
CASEY STONER I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced ...
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS It was something that made sense to me when I was thinking about whether or not Tommy should compete...
DAN STEELE In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I w...
ANEURIN BARNARD When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and t...
MARIPOL![]()
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON My grandma made it when she was old,
KAREN CARTER![]()
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in...
DONNA BRAZILE![]()
I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was t...
ROMAN PAYNE I am working on every aspect of of my game, on moving forward, on my transition game. Also a very im...
JELENA JANKOVIC I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET I converted to the LDS Church when I was 18-years old. I think a lot of things happened in my life t...
GARY WILKINSON When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK![]()
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St....
TADASHI SHOJI![]()
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN![]()
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such ...
SEAN PENN My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confid...
OLGA FONDA![]()
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was ...
CHARLIZE THERON When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a ...
AL YANKOVIC![]()
My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was...
BILLIE LOURD![]()
My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and m...
KINA GRANNIS I felt that was my best game as a pro, ... I'm not entirely satisfied with it because I made a lot o...
FREDDY ADU My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed...
JOSH RYAN EVANS My Keeper took everything from me: my home, my family, my voice. He made me powerless. But I'm home ...
CLARA KENSIE![]()
When I was young, I used to watch videos of Ali boxing, with my dad. It set me on the road. I wanted...
NICOLA ADAMS There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely for my ...
KARI ANDERSON I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arl...
ALAN HOVHANESS![]()
My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that...
NAIMA ADEDAPO
FRANK OZ
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ... JAY-Z I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
JACKEE HARRY Besides steaks and fish, we're going to have meat loaf and big old burgers.
MATT BIRK I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that defi...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. BARRY WHITE
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be... NEEL MUKHERJEE It was not difficult because I love Houston and I have very good teammates, ... Our team is getting ...
YAO MING
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me f... PENELOPE CRUZ
My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, ... ERIC MASSA My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE When my stomach blew up, I immediately went to my gynecologist. I thought maybe it was because of th...
LISA MUHS I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.
DANIELLE FISHEL The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
DANNY MCBRIDE It was tough, but I was really young when it happened, ... It's part of life. It's something that ma...
WALI LUNDY When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hy...
DAN O'BRIEN
I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on th... HARRY DEAN STANTON I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
EVA GABOR
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was o... JANET JACKSON
When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me. JEFF VALDEZ
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every... SIDNEY POITIER
When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forc... JAY-Z
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18. DAPHNE OZ My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old...
JOE ADAMS
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifull...
ADRIAN LYNE When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a ... KATY PERRY No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
BILLY EICHNER
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' beca... J. K. SIMMONS I was so scared. I was very afraid. He pulled my hair and forced me and locked me in the bathroom.
ERIKA CRUZ
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was co... SONIA SOTOMAYOR Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every ...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD 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
Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but righ... STEVE-O
My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travel... NILE RODGERS I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA It was great. I loved playing in front of a gallery. It was everything I could have expected. When I...
BRONSON BURGOON
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in... VICTOR BORGE
When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfrien... LUIS SUAREZ I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I w...
CAROLE BOUQUET When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because ...
KACEY MUSGRAVES I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until...
MAIKA MONROE
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe... RICHARD BRANSON One morning, there was minus 18 (degrees Celsius) and I was forced to train on a synthetic pitch wit...
MICHAEL THWAITE I was on the edge, I was confused and disoriented. As I was about to fall, I was saved, by that bond...
SS038NICK
You may not understand completely in what ways, but it is true when I say to you that you have taugh... SENATOR JOHN KERRY You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who...
MEAT LOAF
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th... SITTING BULL Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my...
SHEENA EASTON I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. JOE BIDEN
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. AGNETHA FALTSKOG You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a ...
MITCHELL HURWITZ At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the c...
ADRIáN LAMO My knee has been fine. At first, it was hard because all of the tears were from contact. Anybody bum...
LAUREN MARTENS
I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all ... OLIVIA THIRLBY At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v...
OZWALD BOATENG
It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus... JEAN GENET
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life. MARIELLA FROSTRUP When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to...
RACHEL BLOOM
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... LAURA MVULA
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days. CRISTIANO RONALDO
When I was young, I did Baby Guess and Guess Kids - Paul Marciano saw me when I was a baby and decid... GIGI HADID
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career mo... MILLA JOVOVICH
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone... MOTHER ANGELICA I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.
ALEXANDRE PATO I thought if I made my putt on 18, we'd be in a playoff. He just closed the door on me.
DON POOLEY When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,...
TODRICK HALL I made a lot of good laps and was very consistent today. I felt very happy because I was very fast o...
CASEY STONER I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced ...
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS It was something that made sense to me when I was thinking about whether or not Tommy should compete...
DAN STEELE In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I w...
ANEURIN BARNARD When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and t...
MARIPOL
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON My grandma made it when she was old,
KAREN CARTER
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in... DONNA BRAZILE
I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was t... ROMAN PAYNE I am working on every aspect of of my game, on moving forward, on my transition game. Also a very im...
JELENA JANKOVIC I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET I converted to the LDS Church when I was 18-years old. I think a lot of things happened in my life t...
GARY WILKINSON When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St.... TADASHI SHOJI
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star... LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such ... SEAN PENN My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confid...
OLGA FONDA
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was ... CHARLIZE THERON When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a ...
AL YANKOVIC
My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was... BILLIE LOURD
My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and m... KINA GRANNIS I felt that was my best game as a pro, ... I'm not entirely satisfied with it because I made a lot o...
FREDDY ADU My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed...
JOSH RYAN EVANS My Keeper took everything from me: my home, my family, my voice. He made me powerless. But I'm home ...
CLARA KENSIE
When I was young, I used to watch videos of Ali boxing, with my dad. It set me on the road. I wanted... NICOLA ADAMS There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely for my ...
KARI ANDERSON I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arl...
ALAN HOVHANESS
My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that... NAIMA ADEDAPO
