I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'
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Related When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was... CYNTHIA ERIVO I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew somethin... BARBARA CORCORAN I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do... DONALD TRUMP, JR. I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona... TIKA SUMPTER On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal wh... HUGO PRATT I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that'... TAYLOR SWIFT Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty. ADAM LAMBERT I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like... HAYDEN PANETTIERE When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e... S. J. ROZAN In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ... GARY NUMAN Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I wa... ROBERT CRUMB I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fe... ROBERT CRUMB Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that... REBA MCENTIRE 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW I knew acting was what I wanted to do. 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JACQUELINE BISSET When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't hav... DAVID MCFADDEN I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas... DAVE FINKEL I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I was... PAMELA ADLON I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another re... DAN DEACON People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.' DAVID HEMMINGS I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised. BRUCE BERESFORD Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it. GARY COLEMAN But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, wha... DABNEY COLEMAN At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be somet... FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it w... JACK OSBOURNE There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was ... KATE MICUCCI When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' b... MADISON DAVENPORT When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frank... BEN CHANDLER I knew I was going to be in 'Spectre,' but I didn't realize I was a 'Bond girl' ... STEPHANIE SIGMAN I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I w... 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JAMES BARRIE The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The ... JAMES ELLROY From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an... WILLIAM JAMES Better luck next time they say, or you win some you lose some, I guess it's something like that. JAMES DYE Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. JAMES BARRIE You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will f... JAMES ALLEN Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ... JAMES ALLEN You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. JAMES AGEE There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It i... JAMES BRYCE The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex bu... JAMES AGATE Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. JAMES BARRIE One does not become a guru by accident. JAMES FENTON They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. CAPTAIN JAMES It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moment... ALICE JAMES A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. JAMES FEIBLEMAN You just stood there screaming Fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can ratt... JAMES HETFIELD There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. JAMES THURBER Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours... JAMES AGATE Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde... JAMES BALDWIN The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality JAMES DYE Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This... JAMES DYE Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrific... JAMES BARRIE