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I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
James Brolin
Music
Director
School
Somehow
Stuck
Almost
Major
Became
Becoming
Camera
Film
Film School
In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'
James Comey
You
Law
School
Year
White
Teammates
Guess
Focused
Law School
Only
Park
Winning
He
Knew
True
League
Sure
Became
Tall
Were
Integrated
Integration
Jump
Which
Height
Much
Teach
Player
Second
Basketball
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
James Comey
Business
Way
Became
Doing
FIFA
Bribe
Payments
Illegal
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
James Cromwell
Great
World
Seen
Incredible
Promote
Performance
Over
Pictures
Academy
Academy Awards
Industry
Sort
Became
Contest
Were
Acknowledge
Then
Created
Really
Show
Popularity
Popularity Contest
Awards
Now
Basically
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson
Me
Rain
Passion
Father
Bird
First
Books
Evolution
Charles
About
Darwin
Had
Indoors
Schoolboy
Read
Learned
Became
Still
His
Chicago
Up
Snow
While
Growing
Growing Up
Aware
Kept
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
James Knowles III
Time
Vote
First
Took
Incumbent
Ran
City
Area
Became
Office
Against
Youngest
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.
James May
Man
Looking
Those
Crisis
Through
He
Him
Himself
Became
Around
Pillar
Refinement
Modern
Modern Man
Depiction
After
Centuries
Incapable
Popular
I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
James McBride
God
Thank God
Before
Writer
Became
Thank
Reporter
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
James Murphy
Guitar
Singing
Kid
Embarrassing
Guitar Player
Drummer
Became
Stopped
Really
Found
Player
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.
James Nachtwey
War
Thought
Beginning
Critical
Photographer
Involved
Became
Issues
Were
Goal
Very
Order
Social
Social Issues
You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'
James Nesbitt
Life
Success
Great
Me
You
People
My Life
Bit
Easy
Charm
Something
Charming
Attach
Wee
Feels
Great Success
Also
Learn
Became
Makes
Go
Label
Very
Lovely
Acquire
Much
Used
Actor
Necessarily
When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
James Nesbitt
God
Best
Gift
Thought
Few
Own
Pain
Bit
Backside
My Own
Voice
Disappeared
Taking
Since
Became
Because
Greatest
George
Hear
Years
Years Ago
Off
Up
Irishman
Did
Egomaniac
While
Mankind
Fully
Film
Neck
Career
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
James Surowiecki
Capitalism
Problem
Own
Ownership
Dilemma
Corporations
Those
Run
Would
Would-Be
Pockets
Only
Small
Perennial
Had
Instead
Toward
Became
Real
Occurs
Line
Been
Model
America
American
Managers
Owners
Essentially
Moved
Which
Stakes
Who
Companies
Professional
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
James Weldon Johnson
Music
Best
Class
People
Church
Through
Colored
Absolutely
Attendance
Became
Irregular
Acquainted
Teaching
But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
James Young
Time
Great
Change
Try
Suited
Else
More
Uncomfortable
Had
No-One
He
Great Thing
Him
Became
Around
Very
Person
Going
Just
Then
Thing
Suit
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in that whole world became very genuine, but perhaps started off a bit affected - a mixture of right and wrong reasons. I was always drawn to non-commercial music, perhaps pathologically so.
Jamie Cullum
Music
World
Reading
Idiot
Jazz
Bit
Drawn
Wearing
Allen
Absolute
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
Perhaps
Non-Commercial
Became
Genuine
Always
Affected
Mixture
Off
Fitted
Very
Woody
Woody Allen
Interest
Movies
Reasons
Whole
Right
Right And Wrong
Started
Watching
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne
Business
New
New Business
Attracted
Industry
Became
Trade
Chicago
Convention
Center
Transportation
Kept
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.
Jane Goodall
People
Gone
Trees
Way
Circumstance
All-Around
Dire
Park
Struggling
Had
Clear
Over
Over It
Protect
Became
Around
Isolated
Were
Years
Years Ago
Forest
Very
Survive
Patch
Tiny
While
To Survive
Realized
Flew
Basically
After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just pushed into a corner.
Jane Hawking
Success
Family
Book
People
Corner
Crowd
Pushed
New
Him
Became
Very
Just
After
Interested
Whole
We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to undermine me, and there were wider influences, too, following the runaway success of 'A Brief History of Time.'
Jane Hawking
Success
Time
Me
History
Wife
Too
Nurse
Runaway
Seeking
Following
Between
Undermine
Became
Came
Were
His
Surrounded
Influences
Interests
Who
Brief
Wider
We were under scrutiny when Stephen became rich and famous. The media were in the house, and camera leads were absolutely everywhere - it was just nightmarish.
Jane Hawking
Rich
Everywhere
Absolutely
Leads
House
Became
Were
Camera
Just
Famous
Scrutiny
Media
Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.
Jane Jensen
Game
Engineer
Before
Software
Became
Designer
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
Jane Leavy
Dawned
League
Became
Era
Modern
Modern Era
Cape
Showcase
Baseball
Elite
Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.
Jane Leavy
Day
Great
Business
Generation
Personality
Opportunity
Purpose
Writers
Journalists
New
Like
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Edgy
Became
Sportswriter
New Generation
Issues
Led
Labor
Reporters
Race
Found
Medical
Disputes
That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.
Jane Lynch
People
Dark
Mother
Energy
Nothing
Group
Other
Intolerable
Kid
Out
More
Had
Part
Weird
Know
Became
Than
Quite
Just
Wanted
Help
Creatively
'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.
Jane Pauley
Good
Morning
Me
You
Babies
Pumpkin
Air
Joan
Good Morning
See
About
Only
Had
Since
Talking
Became
Been
America
After
Acknowledge
While
Pregnancy
Pregnant
Exploited
Show
Reason
Bringing
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