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“I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.”

Children Actors Study

Author:Roddy McDowall

“I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.”

Writing Heart Enough My Heart Good Enough Twelve Submit Sooner Or Later

Author:Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“I started to suspect that the real reason we can't agree on a formula for elite team leadership is that we've overcomplicated things. We've been so busy scanning the horizon for transformational knights in shining armor that we've ignored the likelier truth: there are hundreds upon thousands of potentially transformative leaders right in our midst. We just lack the ability to recognize them.”

Transformational Leadership

Author:Sam Walker

Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

“I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.”

Years Made Young Mother Interest Brother Involved Teenager My Brother Kitchen My Sister Get Involved Stirring

Author:Ainsley Harriott

“I started to take care of my body after I turned 50. I never liked how I looked physically because I was too cute, short, with coloring only on my cheeks, the perfect little nose, and then the blue eyes. But I would have preferred to have the look of a tough guy from the wrong side of town - one of those fascinatingly ugly looks.”

Looks Littles Body Eye Care Guy Sides Perfect Tough Towns Blue Ugly Take Care Noses Cute Cheeks Blue Eyes Tough Guy

Author:Giorgio Armani

“I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and violence that we were prey to and involved in to some extent in those days.”

Thinking Fighting Term Violence Becoming Involved Contradiction Prey

Author:Surya Das

“I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realised that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my friends, now that I came to think of it.”

Humor Friends

Author:Hugh Laurie

Source: The Gun Seller

“I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.”

Thinking Grace Metaphor Monaco

Author:Olivier Dahan

“I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.”

Thinking Trying Black Black And White

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!”

Street Fighter Richy Horsley

Author:Stephen Richards

Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.”

World Way Should Kind Art Self Feelings Audience Creative Expression Industry Expectations Excited Engagement Constraints Self Expression

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.”

Thinking Persons Made Moving Song White Class Middle Grew Grew Up Commitment Privilege Nostalgia Despite Relate Middle Class Ache Keep Moving Upper Middle Class

Author:Erin McKeown

“I started to walk away, but she [Clarisse] called out, "Percy?" "Yeah?" "When you, uh, had that vision about your friends..." "You were one of them," I promised, "Just don't tell anybody, okay? Or I'de have to kill you." A faint smile flickered across her face "See you later." "See you”

Faces Walks Vision Okay Yeah

Author:Rick Riordan

“I started to walk the day I was told I was dying of cancer. I believe walking has kept me alive. I live with a constant, pressing awareness of death. Once I start to walk, I am not afraid anymore; all is well.”

Source: The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.”

Mind Done Shows Watches Television Offers Daughter Female Driven I Realized Lifestyle Damage My Daughter Of My Mind

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.”

Ideas Might Felt Wonder Fraud Relieved

Author:Marie Calloway

“I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.”

Years Important Play Three Black White Four Television Tragedy Educational Evening Four Years Opera Entertaining Black And White

Author:Umberto Eco

“I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.”

Writing Soul Song Introducing Bedroom Writing Songs Music Soul

Author:Graham Parker

“I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.”

Ifs Care Used Easy Cold Warm Take Care Fabric Cotton

Author:Issey Miyake

“I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.”

Writing Ideas Wanted Names Moved Rose Poison March Monk

Author:Umberto Eco

“I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.”

Feels Writing Kind Soul Country Wanted Elements Ballads Music Soul Old Soul

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.”

Writing Long Two Done Half Editors Long Ago Two Days

Author:Bill Joy

“I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.”

Writing Language Felt Race Fantasy Novel Taken Series Artistic Maps Get Back Bedroom Eleven Runes Fantasy Novels

Author:Ken Baumann

“I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.”

Writing Medicine Aids Posts Epidemics Aids Epidemic

Author:Michael Specter

“I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.”

Writing Sorry Apology I'm Sorry

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.”

Knows Writing Made Dream School Film Order Language Goal Ability Effort Practice Rich Masters Paris Filmmaker Bad Things Journal Film School

Author:Abdellah Taia

“I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.”

Thinking Writing Song Saws Awful Auditions Conservatory

Author:Regina Spektor

“I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.”

Writing Mean Book Memories Reviews My Thoughts Book Review

Author:Debra Hamel

“I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.”

Writing Book Ideas Fun Old Ideas

Author:Steig Larsson

“I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.”

Writing Seems Motivation Strong Five Style Addiction Thirty Addict Straightforward Journalistic

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Writing Play Song Courses Roles One Day Findings New Ways

Author:Marion Cotillard

“I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."”

Writing Firsts Said Ideas Night Song Lines Walks Written Changed Mines Titles Texas Good Ideas Verses One Night

Author:Johnny Cash

“I started to write to Ted to explain my feelings, and then - for the very first time - I truly realized that he could not, would not, understand or empathize or even care what my situation was. I had been meant to serve a purpose in his life; I had been the designated Bundy PR person - and I had failed to produce.”

Purpose Understanding Feeling Uncaring Tool Empathize

Author:Ann Rule

Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

“I started to write when I was five, and as I look back on fifty years of this work, I am forced to see that my own continuing development involves pain. It is pain and weakness and constant failures which keep me from pride and help me to grow.”

Pain Growth Learning Author

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life

“I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.”

Writing School High School

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.”

Made Mom My Mom Agreement Touring Merchandise

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“I started toward the barn and was grateful that the wind was still. About halfway up the drive, my heart began to beat an irregular rhythm as I caught sight of Cricket coming toward me. My breath caught in my throat. This girl. This tiny little girl had such incredible power over me with her big, blue, round, sad eyes. Her unusual face, her unusually striking face. Her pert nose. The faint laugh lines around her eyes and mouth. And I didn’t know her, didn’t really even know if she and I were anything alike but that didn’t stop me from wishing we shared a future...even if she did belong to someone else.”

Love Greed Cricket Spencer

Author:Fisher Amelie

Source: Greed

“I started training bodybuilding in 1983.”

Training Bodybuilding

Author:Dorian Yates

“I started training for musicals since I was a boy.”

Boys Training

Author:David Hasselhoff

“I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.”

Energy Given Creativity Meditation Access Reserves Unlimited Transcendental Deep Within Effortless Transcendental Meditation

Author:David Lynch

“I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.”

Ifs Thinking School Jobs Difficult Careers Plans Office Entertainment Work Out Guarantees Youtube Grad Plan B Grad School Office Jobs

Author:Lilly Singh

“I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.”

Knows Needs Trying I Can Play Helping Home Can Do My Own Crazy Like You Computer Guitar Noise Help Me Strings Arrangements Drummer

Author:Steve Burns

“I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.”

Writing Trying Years Song

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.”

Writing Trying Thirds Grades Third Grade

Author:Margaret Haddix

“I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.”

Thinking Writing Changed Computer Typing

Author:David Sedaris

“I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.”

Understanding Leader Servant Dictator Gentleness

Author:Tony Gaskins

“I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.”

Trying Book School Young Understanding Blake

Author:Benjamin Clementine

“I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.”

Common Objects Ordinary Horrible Contact Microphones Rakes

Author:Eugene Chadbourne

“I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?”

Ifs Ends Used Class Drug Yoga Twenties Stronger Shooting Serenity Heroin Grudge Twenty One Coke Thirteen Asana Shooting Up Holding Grudges

Author:Angel Grant

“I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.”

Art Film Used Performances Theatre Used To Be Intrigued Performance Art Live Theatre

Author:Mike Figgis

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