I Started Quotes
2738 I Started quotes by 2133 unique authors
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Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill…
— Billy Crystal
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I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You…
— Bruce Cockburn
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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started…
— Bobby McFerrin
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
— Jack Canfield
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When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious…
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never…
— Gerhard Richter
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I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts…
— Stephen King
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I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody…
— Graham Parker
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There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
— Carol Leifer
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
— Richard Ford
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I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really…
— Leonard Orr
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I…
— Billy Idol
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I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
— Jenny Eclair
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Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.
— Tim Cahill
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening…
— Elvis Costello
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I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my…
— Rosemary Clooney
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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs.…
— Nicholson Baker
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I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
— Alexander Haig
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I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else…
— Julia Cameron
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I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it…
— Angela Lansbury
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I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's…
— Rosie Perez
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times…
— Warren Farrell
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My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and…
— Dorothy Hamill
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a…
— Katarina Witt
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I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400…
— Joe Montana
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