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6171 quotes by 4232 authors
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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own…
— Lydia Davis
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I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.
— Nonito Donaire
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My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical…
— Oleg Deripaska
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything,…
— Stanley Donen
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It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
— Anthony Doerr
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I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end.…
— Arne Duncan
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My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he…
— Dimebag Darrell
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I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.
— Elizabeth David
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and…
— Garret Dillahunt
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A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to…
— Gustavo Dudamel
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I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me…
— Micky Dolenz
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When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and…
— James Frey
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In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television…
— Jeffrey Deitch
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There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
— Jeffrey Donovan
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When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community…
— Jerry Doyle
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I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a…
— Jerry Doyle
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Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a…
— John Dykstra
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I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.
— Joyce DeWitt
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I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle…
— Paul Dano
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During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began…
— Ronnie Dunn
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