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Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.
David Rakoff
You
People
Better
Before
Down
Living
Think
Marks
Bad
Would
Something
Write
Writer
Terrified
Became
Terror
Always
Real
Lot
Began
Get
Being
Unfortunately
Little
Suck
Sat
Stretch
I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.
David Sanborn
Life
Love
Music
Great
Me
Thought
My Life
Living
Saved
Way
Musician
Make
Great Way
Became
Because
Sustained
In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.
David Sax
Sets
Released
More
Magnetic
Powerful
Countries
Since
Most
Toy
Became
Cube
Selling
Than
Curiously
Popular
Novelty
Marbles
Million
Units
When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
David Shields
Time
Good
Sports
School
Writer
Writers
He
Studying
Between
Iowa
Read
Became
Real
Contrast
Ron
Interested
Register
Coach
Des Moines
Who
During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.
David Sylvian
Paranoid
Neurotic
Lifetime
Became
Very
Japan
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
David Talbot
Change
World
Watergate
Cause
College
Change The World
Increasingly
Corny
Way
Higher
Inspired
Journalism
Became
Sounds
Wake
Up
After
Happened
Which
Public
Serve
You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.
David Thewlis
You
Become
Films
Significant
Ability
Entirely
Fact
Judged
Became
None
Dollars
Huge
Hit
Did
Your
Bring
Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
David Wenham
Day
Character
You
Fool
People
Mind
Some People
Somebody
Example
Gave
Back
Nutshell
Daniel
Tried
Some
Stays
He
Takes
Between
Major
Like
Became
Method
Heard
Goes
Six
Whereby
Psychologically
Which
Your
Who
Originally
Lewis
I'd wanted to become a doctor and couldn't - yet became the best known doctor in the galaxy.
DeForest Kelley
Best
Doctor
Become
Known
Became
Wanted
Galaxy
Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
Dean Bakopoulos
Music
Writing
Before
Could
Never
Had
Became
Listen
Essential
Children
Process
Which
While
In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.
Dean Devlin
Became
Predictable
Movies
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Dean Kamen
Today
Me
Age
Young
Thinking
Broad
Finding
Some
Brought
Became
Am
Very
Hobby
Young Age
Where
Themes
Connections
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
Dean Kamen
Innovation
Communicate
Invention
Changed
Consider
Way
Data
High-Speed
Major
Became
Transmission
I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
Deb Caletti
Love
Power
Believe
Books
Writer
Became
Because
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
Deborah Harkness
Science
Strange
People
Writing
Thought
Research
Intriguing
Vampire
Kinds
Pretty
Magic
About
More
Reluctant
Studied
Soon
Witch
Became
Were
Same
Interested
Century
Novel
Things
I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.
Deborah Harkness
Teacher
People
Make
Make A Difference
Became
Because
Difference
Wanted
Lives
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?
Deborah Sampson
Mind
Three
Ocean
Nation
Endeavor
Unjust
Wilderness
Unnatural
Thousand
Thousand Miles
More
Uncivilized
Most
Became
Operations
Subjugation
Than
Themselves
Us
Enforce
Should
Separated
Miles
Plans
Inhuman
Even
Why
Extent
Savages
I became an actor because I couldn't not.
Debra Winger
Became
Because
Actor
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
Dee Dee Myers
Life
Change
Woman
Women
World
Thought
My Life
First
Important
White
White House
Change The World
Changed
Gave
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Secretary
Press
Press Secretary
Would
Minute
More
Joined
Never
House
Became
Important Role
Clinton
Campaign
Won
Role
Did
Confident
Happen
Bill
Ever
Play
Serve
Start-Up
Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
Dee Dee Myers
Secret
Secret Weapon
Out
Weapon
Give
Never
He
Sort
Became
Clinton
Campaign
Up
Get
Going
Just
Resilience
It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.
Dee Dee Myers
First
White
White House
Alive
Out
Would
Something
Drip
Longer
House
Couple
Became
Years
Clinton
Maybe
Where
Stories
Information
Which
Pattern
Even
Keep
When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.
Dee Dee Myers
Me
Women
Job
Pressure
White
White House
Positions
Other
Gave
Secretary
Press
Visible
Press Secretary
Diminished
Never
Thrust
He
House
Became
Limitations
Ready
Still
Were
Clinton
Wanted
Worked
Bill
Bill Clinton
Large
Washington
Credit
Appoint
If a scene called for numerous Oompas to join in a narrative song and dance, I would perform the steps for all of them with subtle distinctions of expression and movement. When the images were joined with the help of a computer, I became an entire troupe.
Deep Roy
Song
Dance
Numerous
Distinctions
Would
Entire
Scene
Join
Joined
Computer
Song And Dance
Troupe
Perform
Steps
Became
Narrative
Were
Movement
Subtle
Them
Help
Expression
Images
My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
Deepak Chopra
Training
Own
Field
My Own
Emotion
Call
Became
Years
Years Ago
Very
Really
Molecules
Fascinated
Many
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
Demi Moore
Life
Mother
Value
Way
Only
Had
Until
Became
Worked
Measured
Whole
It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
Denise Van Outen
Me
Young
Out
Through
Never
Became
Wanted
Worked
Choice
Mum
Things
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