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When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and…

— Soledad O'Brien

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were…

— Jack Adams

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until…

— Bryan Batt

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'…

— Caleb Landry Jones

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

— Joanna Coles

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about…

— Rick Perlstein

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In…

— Gail Collins

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound…

— Chip Kidd

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would…

— Rick Perlstein

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton