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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
Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it. — Tim Cahill
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got… — Ornette Coleman
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
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I… — Judy Collins
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
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems;… — Ian Mcewan
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a… — Amanda McBroom
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry.… — Diane Wakoski
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no… — Milos Forman
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
I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school. — Alexander Haig
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. — Woody Guthrie
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
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
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to… — Tom Cruise
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on… — Bryan Adams
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
I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly. — John Larroquette
People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously… — Colin Hay

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