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“I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.”

Ifs Knowing Jokes Towns Locals Not Knowing Contests Beginners Scarves Blouses

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.”

Very Good Weathermen

Author:Bob Iger

“I began as every man does, a simple boy toying with lofty dreams and eating the promise-crammed air. You think you know who I am, and yet, you are deceived. Shall I speak the name with you? Come, let it fall. William Shakespeare. 'Twas easily said and now that I see you settling in for a tale about the man you think you know, a twist. I am not William Shakespeare.”

Writing Novel Writer Playwright Shakespeare

Author:D.K. Marley

Source: Blood and Ink

“I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.”

Knows Answers Christianity Adults Decided Asking Agnostic

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.”

Thinking Ideas Whole Wanted Responsibility Our Society Accountability Equations

Author:Wes Moore

“I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.”

Writing Children Easy Assumption Mistaken Attempting

Author:Robin Hobb

“I began avoiding certain streets. If I was spoken to going one way, I’d come back a different way, and found myself winding around many blocks. I trained myself to tuck my head down, avoiding eye contact, feigning invisibility. Instead of strolling looking up at the trees, I walked with unwavering conviction, or stared down at my feet. Once a man started walking next to me and said, Can I walk with you? I began walking faster. Let me walk with you. As his feet kept pace with mine, I just shook my head, my hands gripping the handles of my backpack, waiting for him to fall back. Some men would be offended when I didn’t respond, one man saying, I’m just trying to start your day right. But the compliments didn’t feel like compliments when my body language communicated I didn’t want to be looked at, didn’t want to be spoken to. They didn’t feel like gifts when they were thrown at me or whispered so only I could hear. Every comment translated into, I like what I see and I want it. But I don’t want it, I don’t want it, I thought.”

Compliments Unwanted Advances

Author:Chanel Miller

Source: Know My Name

“I began becoming that girl again, the girl who had wildflowers in hair, and madness in her soul, the girl who danced, trembling with emotions. I began becoming that girl again, the girl who sang her soul, longing to drink the wine of life again.....”

Love Life Feelings Emotion Magic Flower Wine Sunflower

Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.”

Fall Pearls Eleven Jam Pearl Jam

Author:Jack Irons

“I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”

Persons Wanted Acting

Author:Cary Grant

“I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.”

Want Moments Feelings Answers Capacity Asking Starting Starting Point Being Loved Investigating Capacity To Love

Author:Lester Levenson

“I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.”

Book Stories Machines Reviews Short Story Pencils Typewriters Book Review

Author:Conrad Aiken

“I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.”

Ends Exercise Yoga Calm Peaceful Curious Workout

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.”

World Clubs France Regions Lorraine Juventus

Author:Michel Patini

“I began by preparing my pasta: my deft fingers forming the intricate shapes of rigatoni, ravioli, spiralli, spaghetti, cannelloni, and linguini. Then I would brew sauces of sardines, or anchovies or zucchini or sheep's cheeses, of saffron, pine nuts, currants, and fennel. These I would simmer in the huge iron cauldrons, which were constantly bubbling above the fire. My pasta dishes, I have to say, were famous throughout the province, and the scent of my sauces carried by the breeze was sufficient to fill a poor man's stomach. I also kneaded bread and produced the finest pane rimacinato, the most delicious ciabatta and focaccia that had ever been tasted in the region. Sometimes I would add wild thyme to the dough, or fragrant rosemary; plucked fresh from the hedgerow, with the dew still on the leaves.”

Bread Pasta Italian Cooking Italian Cuisine Sauces Rosa Fiore

Author:Lily Prior

Source: La Cucina

“I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.”

Ifs Would Be President Growing Cancer Survivor Presidency Cancer Survivor

Author:John Dean

“I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.”

“I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.”

Long Has Beens Play Running Audience Paris Long Runs 1960s Revival

Author:Israel Horovitz

“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”

May Lasts Next Chance Written Pages Commit Ink Composing

Author:Steve Erickson

“I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform them. And then somehow I got started on it. I love doing it, but I have to ration myself very severely or I wouldn't get anything else done.”

Writing Littles Done Age Wanted School Pieces Theater Conducting Rations

Author:George Benjamin

“I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.”

Littles Kids Cutting Fishes Little Kid

Author:Masa Takayama

“I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!”

Writing Song Singing Officials Shut Up Dabbling

Author:Brooke Fraser

“I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.”

Years Littles Body Perfect Levels Feet Crazy Dancing Boring Dancer Ballet Gymnastics Arches Ballet Dancer

Author:Catherine Mary Stewart

“I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because its what every other model does.”

Doe Wanted Models Dancing Actresses

Author:Patricia Velasquez

“I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.”

Light Pleasure Audience Changed Months Couple Episodes

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.”

People Black White Bears Hero Built Absolutes Complexes Defeat Disaster Triumph Delusion Villain Black And White Epic Contradictory Ambiguity Dividing Perfectly Good Barricades

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.”

Firsts Children Art Young Photography Drawing Grandfather Exposure Young Children

Author:Sigmar Polke

“I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.”

Crayon

Author:David Small

“I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.”

Years Age Crisis Drinking Alcohol Fifty Thirteen Drinking Alcohol Puberty Life Crisis Mid Life Crisis

Author:George Montgomery

“I began drowning that day, wishing for a hand from above that would pull me out of this ocean. But the hands came from beneath. Those hands pulled me to the middle of the ocean and ripped my chest apart. They replaced everything that existed in there so that I could breathe inside that ocean. So that I could survive. But soon, my prayers were answered. The hands began arriving from above, too, to pull me out. That's when I began cutting them down, one after the other. I began destroying the only thing I had prayed and wished for since that day.”

God Fear Heartbreak Curse Demon Wishes Survive

Author:Akshay Vasu

Source: Reflections in a Shattered Mirror

“I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...”

Years Children Mother Months Six Music Is Training Ears Musical Concerts Six Months Pianist

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.”

“I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.”

Firsts Art Made School Middle Mom Drug High School Bills Affair Chicago Filmmaking Documentaries His Love Carpet Academy Love Affair Cleaners Middle Aged Anna Obese

Author:Yony Leyser

“I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.”

School Culture Nations Goal Moral Morality Judgment Late Research India Compare Graduates Graduate School Moral Judgment

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I began guitar after coming here as there wasn't a piano about. I taught myself, but my fingers just aren't cut out for the guitar, so I can't seem to get very good. Still, I like the innstrument. It's light, simple, straighforward, like a warm little room, nice and cozy.”

Reiko

Author:Haruki Murakami

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.”

Young Fans Huge Hearing Session Rumor

Author:Jack Irons

“I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek”

Ifs Faces Wonder Happened Scene Come Up Drunk Cheeks Slap Slap In The Face

Author:Max von Sydow

“I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me. If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Important Hard Play Choices Courses Chance Doors Painting Originals I Realized Opening Abstract Arbitrary Abstract Painting

Author:Gerhard Richter

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.”

Four Letters Eras Four Letter Words

Author:Pat Morita

“I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.”

Writing Form Writing Poems

Author:Simone Muench

“I began keeping diaries after they locked Rosemary up at Butler and I went to live with Aunt Elaine in Cranston until I was eighteen, but even the diaries can't be trusted. For instance, there's a series of entries describing a trip to New Brunswick that I'm pretty sure I never took. It used to scare me, those recollections of things that never took place, but I've gotten used to it.”

Memory Mentall Illness

Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan

Source: The Drowning Girl

“I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.”

Author:Dick Schaap

“I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.”

Writing Groups Composer Chamber Small Groups

Author:David Del Tredici

“I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.”

Ifs World Way Wanted Support Records Mystery Evidence Cameras Caught Truthful Being Truthful Beauty Of The World

Author:Robert Adams

“I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.”

Theatre Broadway Modeling

Author:Ian Ziering

“I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.”

Knows Years Voice Term Four Addiction Smoking Cigarette Packs Threatened

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“I began my career in communications and had the privilege of working with senior leaders in a variety of different business sectors. Eventually I decided that rather than helping them develop messages I wanted to help shape lives, that is through teaching, coaching and writing.”

Writing Different Helping Leader Teaching Communication Variety Coaching Senior

Author:John Baldoni

“I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.”

Careers Los Angeles

Author:John Larroquette

“I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.”

Art Careers Models Photographer Actresses Journalist Filmmaker Hats

Author:Garth Kravits

“I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.”

Dream Careers Becoming Composer Infantile

Author:Ivor Novello

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