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My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.
Doc Watson
Music
Guitar
Old
Those
Records
Main
Sound
Real
Sounds
Began
Loved
Interest
Realize
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
Donna Rice
First
Television
Ninth
Hut
Doing
Began
Commercial
Modeling
Grade
Pizza
Pizza Hut
Thirteen
The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.
Doug Aitken
Made
Way
Station
Though
Has-Been
Feels
Been
Began
Itself
After
Us
Create
Sculpt
Fascinating
Film
Awhile
Needed
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
Douglas Sirk
World
Picture
Relativity
Physical
Only
Physical World
Remained
Remains
Attended
Still
Proven
Been
His
Lectures
Began
Different
Einstein
Really
Theory
Now
Suggested
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.
Douglas Tompkins
Funny
Seriously
Setting
Jewish State
State
States
Rumours
Would
Would-Be
Both
Taken
Were
Oddly
Began
Up
Very
Site
Being
Establishing
Which
Working
Flew
Theories
United
Waste
United States
Nuclear
Jewish
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
Drew Gilpin Faust
War
History
Humanities
Define
Say
Drawn
Ourselves
Small
Remained
Through
Small Part
Entwined
Part
Since
Sought
Subject
Began
Effort
Human
Nations
Human Beings
Literature
Centuries
Might
Us
Beings
Even
Ever
I didn't have any work to do, and I had files of my personal and Guns N' Roses financial statements for the previous eight years. I wanted to learn how to read these, but I didn't trust anybody. I just got a lightbulb in my head and said, 'I want to go to school.' That began my journey, taking accountancy and business classes at Seattle.
Duff McKagan
Work
Journey
Business
Trust
Financial
School
My Journey
Statements
Classes
Guns
Previous
Had
Head
Taking
Learn
Read
Said
Got
How
Go
Years
Began
Personal
Any
Just
Anybody
Eight
Want
Wanted
Roses
Files
Seattle
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington
Life
Bible
People
Word
Mine
About
More
Had
Learned
Understand
Becoming
Been
Began
Taught
Acquainted
Much
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
E. L. Konigsburg
Today
Great
Me
Writing
Thought
First
Important
Submit
White
Luck
Out
Would
Admirer
Name
Know
Also
First Name
Readers
Female
Were
Male
Began
May
Whether
Use
Manuscript
Bring
Starting
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
Eavan Boland
Art
History
Language
Down
System
Evolution
Would
See
Poem
Poems
Vast
Individual
Almost
Come
Ideas
Also
Understand
Source
Tap
Began
Just
Root
Growing
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
Ed Harris
Art
Me
Human Being
Not Knowing
Several
About
More
Struggles
He
Knowing
Him
Himself
Read
Said
His
Began
Times
Persona
Modern
Modern Art
Human
Being
Interesting
Much
Separate
I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
Eddie Vedder
Music
Soul
Rebellion
Parents
Affection
Gone
Babysitter
Nine
Windows
Onto
Rattling
Had
Around
Rock
Shelves
Were
Began
Shook
Roll
Next
Exploration
Turntable
Aggression
After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
Edmund Phelps
Half
Late
France
Rates
More
More Or Less
Dropping
Countries
Major
Most
Altogether
Falling
Loss
Began
Germany
After
Dynamism
Productivity
Less
Growth
Britain
I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.
Edward Hirsch
Seriously
Thought
College
Poet
Before
Own
Way
About
Someone
Poetry
Until
Also
Wrote
Read
Devour
Maker
His
Discovered
Began
Very
Intense
Experiences
Really
Who
I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.
Edward M. Lerner
Time
Writing
Training
Engineer
Thirty
President
Everything
Those
High
Physicist
High-Tech
Computer
Until
Scientist
Years
Began
Senior
Hobby
Vice
Vice President
Worked
Full
Full-Time
Many
Tech
As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.
Edward Zwick
War
Men
Universe
Destroyed
Indian
Civil
Civil War
More
More And More
Had
Journals
Shattered
Read
Souls
Been
Began
Realized
Then
Who
Wars
Whole
Whose
Lives
Utterly
I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.
Edward Zwick
Relationship
First
Down
Believe
Think
Our
Unless
Ours
Would
Threatened
Fact
Imperial
Open
Most
Obviously
Trade
Sailed
Perry
Began
Up
Historically
American
Impulse
In Fact
Burn
Japan
Us
Harbor
What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.
Edwin Catmull
People
Think
Films
Out
About
Adopted
Color
He
New
Days
Making
Sound
Came
Began
New Technologies
Did
Died
Walt
Walt Disney
Just
Stopped
Happened
Then
Disney
Used
Technologies
Bringing
Early
Early Days
Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.
Elaine Chao
Three
Previous
Higher
Employment
Years
Began
Than
After
Average
Deepest
Peak
Four
Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.
Elaine Chao
War
Time
Poverty
Lyndon
President
State
Local
Local Governments
Sector
Johnson
Federal
Accelerate
Around
Private
Governments
Private Sector
Began
Declaring
The thing about spending a lifetime under a long, bushy cloud of curls is that people naturally began associating me with my hair.
Elaine Welteroth
Me
People
Long
Hair
Cloud
Spending
About
Lifetime
Began
Curls
Naturally
Thing
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
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she got older, she began to hear words and songs in her head everywhere she went - songs she loved, like 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter, and her own words that sometimes tumbled out into poems.
Elizabeth Flock
Words
Sometimes
Poet
Sit
Own
Young
Older
Cole Porter
Alice
Everywhere
Out
Poems
Songs
Head
Like
She
Got
Hear
Began
Very
Begin
American
Front
Listen
Just
Loved
Used
Radio
Porter
Her
When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show.
Elizabeth Flock
Women
Phone
Young
Stage
Typing
Neil
Neil Young
He
Invisible
Until
Concert
Caught
Left
Began
Texting
Mock
Noticed
Show
Incessantly
Apparently
Two
When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Hunters
Sedentary
See
Indoors
Fellow
Occasional
Became
Wolves
Began
Lived
Livestock
Started
Raise
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
Ellen Burstyn
Art
Good
First
Later
Say
Out
Would
Admire
Most
Well
Began
Very
Taste
Acting
Actress
Started
Appreciate
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