I Started Quotes
2738 quotes by 2166 authors
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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life…
— John Irving
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I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses…
— Eddie Izzard
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At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.
— LL Cool J
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I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
— Wolfman Jack
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Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
— Janet Jackson
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
— Mahalia Jackson
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I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly…
— Marc Jacobs
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I think when I started to get in shape and spend time at the gym, I could be better to other people and be better…
— Marc Jacobs
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to…
— Naveen Jain
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My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds,…
— Etta James
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And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the…
— Etta James
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I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won…
— LeBron James
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I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me…
— Jewel
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I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that…
— Penn Jillette
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I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
— Shawn Johnson
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I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own…
— Angelina Jolie
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When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was…
— Grace Jones
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
— Quincy Jones
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And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because…
— Ashley Judd
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