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Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I was good in comedy so I started getting such roles but as an actor you don't like to do same type…

— Satish Kaushik

I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

— Irina Shayk

I started teaching spinning early when it was first happening in the '90s. I love the mind-body connection of spinning.

— Mandy Ingber

I don't think I started kicking a ball until I was six or seven. Horses were my first love, so I was…

— Millie Bright

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

— Jill Lepore

I started making records and touring when I was 15, first with Frank Zappa's son Dweezil.

— Josh Freese

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.

— Adam Ondra

Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and…

— Barton Seaver

Our first 100 rides took us one-and-a-half years from the time we started in January 2011. It was only after that we…

— Bhavish Aggarwal

I started boxing aged 15 when a local man, Ricardo Linari, opened a boxing club in Margarita. I just seemed to be…

— Marcos Maidana

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight…

— Pete Rose

I've always been into subcultures. In the '50s and '60s, what Pierre Molinier was doing was super subculture - he was taking…

— Violet Chachki

I started with theater when I was 9 years old and then got into television when I was 16, but I would…

— Natalia Reyes

As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken,…

— Kathryn Stockett

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the…

— Dick Dale

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it…

— Stuart Scott

Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought…

— Bill Cosby

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago…

— Gus Van Sant

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and…

— Aaron Schock

I've actually always started with what feels most natural. Which is, the people who surround me in my daily life. So, the…

— Sarah Jones

I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem…

— Regina Hall

When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young,…

— Hannibal Buress

I started, whenever I got to a city, just getting on Style Seat, which is the most incredible app for any girl…

— Sophia Bush

When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily…

— Javed Jaffrey

That's how I started. I moved to New York City, and I was a makeup artist.

— Christian Siriano

I've coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.

— Roy Nelson

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

— Grimes

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

— Jerry Robinson

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

— Robert Knepper

I've started doing Bikram yoga. You're in a boiling hot room, bending over pretending to be a locust, you can't do that…

— Bill Bailey

When I started my recording career, I hoped that someday the Grammy committee would notice something.

— Hilary Hahn

When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.

— Frances Arnold

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

— Mitski

It messed with my head a little bit when people started to imitate what I was doing.

— Emma Chamberlain

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

— Gene Simmons

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

— Robin Wasserman

I was initially excited about modelling, but soon, I started feeling detached with the job. I wanted dynamic growth in whatever I…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

— David Spade