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6171 quotes by 4352 authors
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and…
— Matt de la Pena
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My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were…
— Nick Jonas
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I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
— Idina Menzel
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in…
— Idina Menzel
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My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe…
— Brian Acton
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I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had…
— Sheldon Harnick
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My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.
— Amanda Eliasch
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I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at…
— Howard Warren Buffett
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
— Daniel Breaker
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Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex…
— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
— Chad Hurley
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At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is…
— Henry Rollins
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Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first…
— Bill Nunn
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I…
— Samantha Shannon
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a…
— Natasha Trethewey
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going…
— Natasha Trethewey
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