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Interviewer:  Did you have a vision of what you wanted to accomplish when you were young?
Martha Stewart:  When I (am/was) young, I (want/wanted) to be a teacher. I (am greatly inspired/was greatly inspired) by my third grade teacher, Miss Irene Wire, and by my fifth grade teacher, Miss Mitchell. My parents (are/were) both teachers. So I really (pursue/pursued) that idea as a career, until I (get/got) to college.
In college I (discover/discovered) the world of chemistry, which I loved. I (discover/discovered) the world of architectural history. I (discover/discovered) so many different things that I (decide/decided) that maybe I (forgo/would forgo) the teaching career for a while. The first thing that really (catch/caught) me (is/was) the stock market. I (become/became) a stockbroker, immediately out of college, forgoing architecture school. My dream now, in retrospect then, (is/was) to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person, in order to be able to learn and then to teach. And I'm still doing that, so I think I am a teacher.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems. And it (is/was) the energy that enables me to run around and do the things that I like to do. I (don't need/didn’t need) a lot of sleep. I (find/found) that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep (is/was) not the most important thing. More important (is/was) the discovery. And I'm really trying to discover everyday good things.

 

(Source: “DISCOVERING EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS” Retrieved from http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ste0int-1 on August 9, 2010)