Before I Became Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
— Charles Bukowski
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Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a…
— Richard Riordan
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I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because…
— Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would…
— River Phoenix
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always…
— Cyndi Lauper
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I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.
— Ed Koch
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball…
— Willie Mays
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I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most…
— Beyonce Knowles
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I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
— Assata Shakur
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I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.
— Michael Bloomberg
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I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
— Tom T. Hall
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When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — (Obama) charged me with three things. One was he wanted…
— Charles Bolden
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There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I…
— Joan Chen
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I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.
— Michelle Rodriguez
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You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government…
— Paul Keating
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In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have…
— Novak Djokovic
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Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
— Lisa Gardner
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all…
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Before I Became Quotes
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