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I say 'no' a lot. And if I knew how easy it was to say no, I would have started saying it…

— Anne Murray

I started writing, then said I don't know if I want to share all that. I don't know if I want to…

— Jason Taylor

I started singing when I was 8, and then when I was 11, I started writing my first songs.

— Jorja Smith

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the…

— Jack Antonoff

I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a…

— Jiah Khan

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting…

— Charles Koch

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

— Connie Nielsen

When I was a kid, I was a striker. Then, I started to be a winger and defender sometimes.

— Cesar Azpilicueta

In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind…

— Steve Earle

I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' - I'm gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn't watched 'Lord of…

— Jacob Anderson

I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me…

— Joel Parkinson

When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be…

— Common

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the…

— Jordan Peterson

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started…

— Elton John

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did…

— Keke Palmer

As kids we'd be forever shooting at dad and I started as a striker, but I eventually became a pivote, the position…

— Sergio Busquets

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

— Hannibal Buress

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works…

— Douglas Coupland

I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like…

— Suzi Quatro

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I…

— William Moseley

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast…

— Jill Davis

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die…

— Edmund White

To those who call me a mercenary I say that I also had interest from abroad, where I would have earned more.…

— Leonardo Bonucci

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it…

— Clinton Sparks

I started my life on the ground selling sim card, telecom products and so on and learned a heck of a lot…

— Ritesh Agarwal

The menopause shouldn't be so taboo because it's natural. I was filming on 'New Tricks' when mine started.

— Amanda Redman

I've started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.

— Katy Tur

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

— Brian Grazer

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

— Steve Miller

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

— Jerry Coleman

When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

— Sam Hunt

I started when I was in sixth grade, playing Pop Warner. I played running back, quarterback, cornerback... all over the place.

— Chris Hogan

I started playing football at the age of 6. I've been playing quarterback ever since.

— JaMarcus Russell

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's…

— Lorde

I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.

— Nargis Fakhri

I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people.

— Steve Aoki

When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction.

— David Berman

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

— Ridley Scott

I know many actresses who started big but were sent packing, as they couldn't sustain the momentum. I am in this for…

— Samantha Akkineni

Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it.

— Cord Jefferson