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“I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?”

Author:Jack Canfield

“I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.”

Actresses Ukulele

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.”

Facts Kids School College High School Physics Chemistry Molecules Cleaners

Author:Leon M. Lederman

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen.”

Writing Trying Years Firsts Moments Stories Happens Wanted Teach Issues Teaching Poet Scene Things Happen Collections Plot Make Things Happen

Author:Dan Chaon

“I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.”

Feels Writing Novel Poet

Author:Alice Walker

“I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.”

Littles Persons Company Phones Nine Receptionists

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.”

Comfortable Comedian Stand Up Comedian

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.”

Ifs Games Player Mets Losing Teenager Pool Basements Snooker

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“I started out as a television news anchor but I wasn't very good at it. I think I was too positive. I wanted to begin every newscast by saying, 'Good evening, in the news tonight...everything's great! Go to sleep. We'll let you know if anything important comes up.'”

Ifs Thinking Knows Important Wanted Sleep Television News Very Good Come Up Evening Tonight Anchors Going To Sleep Television News Good Evening News Anchors

Author:Bob Burg

“I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.”

Firsts Actors Term Singing Performances Traditional

Author:Billy Eichner

“I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.”

Kids Young Mother Girl Couple Hollywood Portraying

Author:Dorothy Malone

“I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.”

People Knows Giving Wanted Actors Asks Waiting Acting Roles Know How Directors Relate Ask Me

Author:Chadwick Boseman

“I started out as a writer with an hour removed from Kingdom of Heaven. You have to make one print for the entire world, and that's something that influences the theatrical cuts of pictures to an enormous degree. It's a reality. You can't have one cut for the Sunni, and one for the Shia, and one each for Tories, Whigs, vegetarians, one cut for the Cineplex, and one for literary intellectuals.”

World Reality Heaven Hours Cutting Influence Degrees Enormous Kingdoms Print Vegetarian Theatrical Kingdom Of Heaven Shia

Author:William Monahan

“I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.”

Kind Stuff Prose Satirical

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.”

Young Basketball Spots Ninja Shoguns

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.”

Actors My Own Productions Mindset Fund

Author:Crispin Glover

“I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.”

People Thinking Firsts Courses Actors Found Voice Written Subjects Very Good Scripts Eight

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.”

Thinking Firsts Artist Entrepreneur

Author:Biz Stone

“I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.”

People Moving Voice Attitude Quality Observing Quirks Impressionists

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.”

Long Enough Originals Respectable Renegades

Author:Wolfman Jack

Source: Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock 'n' Roll Animal - Wolfman Jack

“I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.”

White Snow Snow White

Author:Mae West

“I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.”

Years Next President Five College Presses Meetings Series Five Years Los Angeles Boston Minnesota Years Of Experience

Author:Billy Graham

“I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.”

Giving Writing Eye Giving Up Bones Performing First Love

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.”

Believe Belief Car Moved Scary Driving Apartment

Author:Jim Bakker

Source: The Big Three Mountain-Movers

“I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.”

Havens Guitarist Trios Congas

Author:Richie Havens

“I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.”

People Needs Believe Government Jobs Protect Lawyer Consumers Free Market Intervention Marketplace Protector Regulators

Author:John Stossel

“I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.”

Years Real Numbers College Coming Out Estates License Realtors

Author:Bill Huizenga

“I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.”

World Way Shows Reality Film Used Certain Seeing Fans Tvs Singing Dancing Intention My Way Tv Shows Reality Tv

Author:Julianne Hough

“I started out doing covers.”

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.”

Pieces Bills Scales Customs

Author:Fred Foster

“I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had some kids and they asked me if I would mind doing it. I was very happy to do it. Thats where I got my training before I went to the public. I did that for several years. It was actually the best vocal training I could have had.”

Ifs Years Mind Kids School Voice Training Program Very Happy Vocal

Author:Steven Blum

“I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story “greater than the sum of its parts.””

Way Writing Stories Greater Skills Photography Video Filmmaking Compilation

Author:Brendan Fletcher

“I started out doing musicals.”

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.”

Long Sometimes Hard Enough Running New York Theater Blessed Stuck Long Runs Soap

Author:Susan Sullivan

“I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.”

Trying Stuff My Own Waste Backgrounds Modest Good Sense

Author:Marco Arment

“I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased”

Love Life Giving Purpose Thanks Love Life Small Things Bounty

Author:Oprah Winfrey

Source: What I Know For Sure

“I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.”

Chance Ice Holiday Skating Ice Hockey Ice Skating

Author:Kenny Baker

“I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.”

Made Prison Inmates

Author:Kim Coates

“I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur.”

People Play Guy Voice Missing Band Guitar Heavy Metals Guitarist Heavy Metal Demos Metal Band

Author:Robert Pollard

“I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.”

Ifs Kids Principles Football Abandoned Backyards Touch Football

Author:Mercury Morris

“I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.”

People Shows Theater Clubs

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Jobs Courses Effects Strange Capitalist Engineering Engineers

Author:George Saunders

“I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.”

Writing Reading Novel Serious Poet Prose Detectives Writing Poetry Writing Poems

Author:Paul Auster

“I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.”

Two Parent Advantage No Money Good Parent

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.”

Feels Firsts Comfortable India Environmental Critical Nuclear Physics Theoretical Implications Theoretical Physics Breeders Nuclear Physics

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.”

People Thinking Long Said Stills Reality Used Bits Drug Scary Flight Long Ago Psychedelic Psychedelic Drugs

Author:Terence McKenna

“I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.”

Years Three Three Years Masochistic

Author:Debra Winger

“I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.”

People Mean Laughing Expenses Satisfying Making People Laugh

Author:Debra Winger

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