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I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.
Drummond Money-Coutts
School
Mind
Intrigue
Introverted
Magic
Mystery
Became
Boyish
Arrived
Very
Escape
Place
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.
Duane Michals
Photography
Generation
People
Late
Photographers
Would
Photographs
My Generation
Something
Bought
Nobody
Became
Were
Chicago
Maybe
Rewards
Sixties
Galleries
Fifties
Show
Who
Shows
Early
Museum
We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'
Duff McKagan
Together
Destruction
Own
Took
Our
Songs
Wrote
Became
Experiences
Appetite
At the time when I started, coming out of football, I always used a forearm or an elbow. When it became Bionic is when I said it was Bionic. I went to some secret doctor in Istanbul who put some Bionic stuff in there.
Dusty Rhodes
Time
Doctor
Secret
Out
Some
Football
Put
Stuff
Became
Said
Always
Coming
Istanbul
Elbow
Used
Who
Started
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Dwayne Johnson
Funny
Me
Thought
Men
Somebody
Funny Thing
Back
Defining
Defining Moment
Out
Having
Like
Schwarzenegger
Arnold
Became
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Built
Idolized
Realize
Then
Bodies
Working
Moment
Thing
Started
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
Dwight Yoakam
People
Old
Abandonment
Part
Became
Metaphor
Occurred
West
Century
Film
Lives
Early
I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.
Dylan Bruce
Work
Day
Nature
You
Yourself
Every Day
Sometimes
Valuable
Unfair
Every
Think
Top
Television
Bad
Bad Acting
Memorizing
Seeing
Over
Over-The-Top
Learned
Became
Were
Label
Gets
Being
Soap
Scripts
Worked
Acting
Lessons
Second
Second Nature
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
Dylan Lauren
Birthday
Parents
Living
Trees
Factory
Rivers
Idea
Became
Candy
Screened
Land
Chocolate
Fascinated
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
E. L. James
You
Chapter
Cinema
Say
Television
Would
Ring
Finish
Absolutely
Obsessed
Became
Got
Doing
Go
Yes
Friends
Just
Watch
I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
Ed Kowalczyk
Music
School
Band
Back
Kind
Would
Pennsylvania
Nerd
Some
Point
Between
Became
Always
Pirates
Childhood
Fan
Forth
Then
Much
Flip
Teams
Route
Eagles
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
Ed Rollins
President
Summer
Nixon
Administration
Running
Part
Term
Re-Election
Involved
California
Became
His
Campaign
Republican
Start
Second
Second Term
'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.
Ed Stoppard
Before
Drama
Somehow
Entity
Had
Instantly
New
Suppose
Come
Genres
Became
Different
Upstairs
Different Genres
Create
Reasons
Popular
Downstairs
Why
I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
Eddie Murphy
History
People
Black
Before
Black Americans
Hated
Diversify
More
More People
Fed
Never
Allowed
Put
New
Became
Rock
Rock And Roll
Hip-Hop
Lines
Than
American
Roll
Done
The History Of
African
Clothing
Anything
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Them
Companies
Americas
Ever
Thing
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder
Music
Family
Relationship
You
Passion
Job
Holding
Tree
Once
Visible
Hurricane
About
Above
Betrayed
Onto
Never
Highly
Like
Became
Real
Dear
Were
Commerce
Real Passion
Held
Your
Even
Thing
Palm
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
Edie Campbell
Work
Me
You
Eyes
Accident
Design
See
Rather
Never
Became
Around
Messy
Than
Get
Precision
Just
Straight
Then
Your
Flick
Thing
When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
Edmund Phelps
Music
Passion
Teenager
Learned
Became
Trumpet
Play
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
Edmund White
Alone
Me
Problem
Too Much
First
Discouraged
Young
Too
Market
Please
Sole
Criterion
Would
Something
Write
Writer
Part
New
Wrote
Became
Always
Got
Yorker
Forgetting
New Yorker
Decided
Much
Novel
Published
I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Book
Writing
Big
Some
More
Write
Written
Became
Verses
Forget
Afraid
Them
Might
Many
Keep
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
Eduardo Galeano
Dreams
Best
Better
Wake Up
Nighttime
Pele
Only
Writer
Messi
Became
Wake
Up
Than
Wooden
Doomed
Wanted
Legs
Soccer
Realized
Even
Player
Night
Number
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Edward Bond
Experience
Collective
Goodness
Past
Became
Always
In The Past
Then
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
Edward Grey
Great
Me
Thought
Abyss
Edge
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Once
Recoil
Must
Would
Seemed
Powers
Obvious
Call
Became
Halt
Were
Apparent
I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.
Edward Zwick
Me
World
Some
Entirely
Developed
Part
Looked
Became
Understand
How
Context
Came
Subjects
Maybe
Which
Movies
Watched
Thirst
When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.
Elayne Boosler
Day
You
Comedy
Job
Free
Country
Big
Everyone
Had
Day Job
Became
Big Break
Got
Comics
Were
Years
Up
Maybe
Break
Clubs
Little
Then
Worked
Your
Whole
Star
Growing
Growing Up
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
Elena Roger
Age
Singing
Once
Performer
Singing Lessons
Became
Began
Acting
Dove
Professional
Lessons
I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
Elfriede Jelinek
War
Ways
Charged
Unrest
Football
Football Match
Sport
Became
Match
Metaphor
Ended
Nationalist
After
Former
Then
Yugoslavia
Started
Violence
Associate
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.
Elif Batuman
School
Secular
Parents
Country
Met
Top
Born
Became
Were
America
Moved
Turkey
Researchers
Professors
Medical
Medical School
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