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When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.

— Anderson Silva

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

— Molly Ivins

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where…

— Ranbir Kapoor

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

— Heikki Kovalainen

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I…

— Mira Nair

I started working as a journalist under Bush, then Clinton, then Bush, then Obama.

— Sharyl Attkisson

I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.

— Imtiaz Ali

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

— Roger McGuinn

It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and…

— Kem Nunn

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you…

— Dick Cavett

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to…

— Pamela Adlon

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

— Johan Renck

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

— Sela Ward

I started out as the assistant to the editor-in-chief at 'Ebony' magazine. She took me under her wing and gave me opportunities…

— Elaine Welteroth

I was in a steak house once, and someone proposed. I was so embarrassed. The woman started crying, and I thought, 'She…

— Gad Elmaleh

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live…

— Deborah Moggach

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I…

— Louise Nurding

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

— Bappi Lahiri

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for…

— William Sleator

I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy,…

— Timothy Hutton

I started anchoring when I was four for Splash, a kids' channel. Then I moved on to ads.

— Regina Cassandra

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom,…

— Gin Wigmore

I was reading fan fiction on Wattpad, but they were taking a little bit to update the stories, so I started writing…

— Anna Todd

I got to college, and I wasn't on any draft boards. I got to college and started playing well, and all of…

— Kevin Huerter

You have to be nice to everybody, regardless of their position because you never know - they could be the next David…

— Angela Yee

When I started being authentically me, everything started to change. Everyone thinks we've got to be someone we're not, but we don't.

— Dylan Alcott

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high…

— Chad Lindberg

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything…

— Louis Leterrier

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to…

— Nia Long

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to…

— Ross Barkley

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when…

— Charles Dance

I want to be a 'coffee guy,' but I just haven't started.

— Ricochet

I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got…

— Hannibal Buress

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and…

— Daley Thompson

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a…

— Daniel Bruhl

Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. Coming off…

— Stephen Colletti

I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I have numerous clear glasses at home. I probably have thirty pairs. I think it started for acting. I have tons of…

— Ryan Eggold

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater.…

— Linden Ashby

Back In 1982, I started in show business with my brothers. We started a break dancing group.

— Dante Basco