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“I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.”

Firsts Kind Actors Consistently Gigs

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II”

Months Apples

Author:Andy Hertzfeld

“I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.”

Firsts Shows Reality Jobs Stars Behinds Scene Battle Currents Programming Gossip Blogs Chairman Behind The Scenes Lauren Bravo

Author:Andy Cohen

“I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.”

Want Kids Young Clubs Sixteen

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.”

Dog Stupid

Author:Craig McCracken

“I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.”

Age New York Modeling

Author:Nancy McKeon

“I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.”

Summer Steel Bethlehem

Author:Richard Serra

“I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'”

Should Writing Years Said Stories Half Should Have Editors Observers Columns

Author:Candace Bushnell

“I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.”

Years Firsts Self Class Fronts Scene Conscious First Time Cameras Opera Soap Self Conscious Brooklyn Skip Soap Operas

Author:Paul Wesley

“I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.”

Decision Musician

Author:Vanessa Amorosi

“I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.”

Paper Summer My Family Rounds University Burden Milk Shelves Saturday Supermarkets Stacking

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.”

Firsts Father Skills Six Wire Plugs

Author:Gordon Bell

“I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.”

Years Kind Lasts Lines Right Now Clothes Last Year Standstill

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“I started working on how I would direct this a year before we started shooting "All We Had" and I was prepping, acting, and directing sort of at the same time. I knew that I didn't want to hold people up on set.”

People Want Years Acting Direct Shooting Old People

Author:Katie Holmes

“I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.”

Trying Sound June

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.”

Results Saws Work Out Trainers

Author:Taylor Dane

“I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.”

May Has Beens Body Needed Shapes Decided Work Out Your Body Formal Workout Decrease Getting In Shape

Author:Paul Stanley

“I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.”

Ice Trash

Author:Bob Corker

“I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.”

Years Three Names Parent My Own Pay Responsibility Known Needed Bills Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Corey Feldman

“I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.”

School Young High School Agents Conventional Consistently Employed

Author:Claire Danes

“I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.”

Mines Degrees

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I started working with James [Schamus] early on, and my role as an executive producer was more about being involved in the conversations of putting the film together. I didn't have to do much work because James is the most experienced first-time director you could imagine.”

Firsts Together Film Roles Imagine Involved Directors Conversation First Time Producers Executives

Author:Logan Lerman

“I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.”

Made Hard Stuff Sound Player Needed Instruments Complexes Bunch Plastic Steel Surplus Synthesizers

Author:Z'EV

“I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.”

Timely

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.”

Writing Wanted Couple Studios Finished California Tunes Trails Colorado

Author:Neil Young

“I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.”

Writing Years Children Two Five Months England My Children Holiday Two Years Bricks Compulsion Lanes

Author:Monica Ali

“I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.”

Writing Views Novel Easier Opposites Difficulty Point Of View Monsters Ashamed Psychopath Empathetic

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.”

Writing School Class Mexico Autobiography New Mexico Very Inspiring

Author:Liza Campbell

“I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.”

Writing Stories Used New York Short Story

Author:Candace Bushnell

“I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!”

Writing Song Left Crazy Seven Albums Eight Flight Planes Notebook Brazil Blackberries

Author:Estelle

“I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'”

Writing Firsts Heart Littles Play Film Acting Auditions

Author:Jonah Hill

“I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.”

Writing Different Used Europe South International Newspapers Used To Be One Time Journal Asia Publication Geneva South Asia

Author:Francois Gautier

“I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.”

Thinking Writing Children Book Gone College Juniors Sophomore

Author:Alice Walker

“I started writing as soon as I started reading.”

Writing Reading

Author:Michael Koryta

“I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.”

World Writing Play Found Pages Decided Imaginary Backyards Imaginary World

Author:Veronica Roth

“I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there”

Needs Writing

Author:Audre Lorde

“I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.”

Writing Talking Laughing My Friends Bullshit

Author:Tucker Max

“I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had anything to say that people would want to read. "There's nothing to writing," the columnist Red Smith once commented. "All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

Writing

Author:Wally Lamb

Source: Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

“I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .”

Thinking Writing Trying Ready Absence Senses Familiar Teenager Related Yearning Vacancy

Author:Ntozake Shange

“I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.”

Writing Children Book Literature Easier Innocence Writing A Book Children Book

Author:Mark Haddon

“I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.”

Writing Ideas Stories Might Fiction Teach News Journalism No Idea Related Great Ones News Stories

Author:Amy Hempel

“I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.”

Thinking Writing Heart Ideas Young Song Broken Lifetime Cheating

Author:Willie Nelson

“I started writing every day. I never stopped.”

Writing Writing Every Day

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.”

Writing Theatre Hated

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.”

Writing Piano

Author:Michael Cretu

“I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.”

Writing Reading Quality Roles Darkness Scripts Frustration

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.”

Writing Years Half Changed Six Years Ago Landscape Half A Year

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.”

Writing Voice Cities New York Phones New York City Mail Sept 11

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.”

Writing Years Years Ago Seven Seven Years Genesis

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.”

Writing Creative Outlets Down Time Creative Outlets

Author:John Cariani

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