I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier.… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private… — Donald Bren Copy Share Image
We began our 'Luxe Life' and 'Vegas DeLuxe daily columns' not long after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and we've spent a decade… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play,… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh… — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact,… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to… — Doc Watson Copy Share Image
After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and… — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to… — Rick Wagoner Copy Share Image
When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that… — Raul de Molina Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith,… — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
