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There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.
What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.
I made many mistakes and I also learnt a lot of lessons. Whatever I picked up from my mistakes is helping me a lot ever since.
Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus.
I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.
I picked up yoga. I tried to do cooking a little bit. I almost burned my house down, but it's all good. So I just stuck to yoga.
When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
I get picked on by my older brother and sister, and I get yelled at for picking on my little brother and for not cleaning my room.
I am never not going to want to play for England so I don't care how old I am. If I am doing well I hope I am going to get picked.
So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and learned about life.
'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.
I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.
I am who I am, and I think that's why I'm very grateful to be an Arizona Cardinal: because the team that picked me, they picked me.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.
'TMZ' has the cash to buy off valets and info like flight lists or even the limo list of what celeb is being picked up where and when.
I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
I met Kendrick, and we were in the studio. He picked a bunch of beats out; that was great. He's a great guy - we vibed out for the day.
My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, 'what was meant to be.' She was a very special woman, and a gifted witch.
So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.
I went to Target once and picked up three seasons of '24' - what I call the Jack Bauer power hour - and watched 72 episodes in ten days.
My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Frankly, this is what you dream about - to get picked for the Test team. That's why you work hard and give it your best day in and day out.
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.
My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
I stopped playing the drums when I was ten, and I picked up Rubik's Cubes. I was doing that for a while, and then I got into cinematography.