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Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.
John Sherman Cooper
Great
Age
Writing
Oswald
About
Marxism
Marxist
He
Study
Supreme
Himself
His
Years
Began
Very
Affirming
Curious
Did
Want
Show
Kept
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
John Sutter
Me
Punish
Wounding
Indians
All-Around
Threatening
Stealing
Obliged
Attack
Horses
Troublesome
Make
Around
Cattle
Began
Campaigns
Against
Them
Us
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
John Williams
Young
Others
Pianist
Comfortable
Felt
Doing
Began
Just
Hollywood
Really
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
John le Carre
Service
You
Writing
Collecting
About
Name
Wrote
Another
Foreign
Understood
Still
Foreign Service
Began
Then
Used
Even
Butterfly
British
For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.
Jon Favreau
Freedom
Me
Creative
Courage
People
Other
Those
Out
Guys
More
David
Had
Days
Like
Always
Years
Pine
Lot
Version
Began
Louis
Expected
Authorship
Often
So Much Fun
Them
Much
Less
Fun
Captivating
Larry
Thing
Watched
Watching
Playing
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
Jonathan Frid
Dark
Thought
Three
Jobs
Would
Dark Shadows
Shadows
About
Weeks
Mail
Had
Caught
Go
Been
Began
Role
Stopped
Then
Flood
Twice
Four
Started
Phenomenon
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
Jonathan Haidt
Work
Win
Political
Morality
Varies
Partisan
Democrats
How
Began
Political Spectrum
Wanted
Manipulative
Across
Help
Element
Spectrum
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.
Jonathan Haidt
School
Judgment
Research
Late
Moral
India
Some
Morality
Varied
Understand
How
Goal
Cultures
Began
Did
Graduate
Graduate School
Nations
Across
Comparing
I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
Jonathan Maberry
Me
Try
Will
Advice
Flyer
Ghost
Rules
Out
Bad
Only
Take
Road
Soon
New
Like
Reaching
Wrote
Because
Polished
Frequent
Began
Author
Shoot
Done
Low
Agent
Agents
Low-Level
Ignored
Novel
Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.
Jonathan Mostow
Myself
Fire
Enough
Out
Direct
Had
Feel
Like
Most
Involvement
Began
Going
Story
Either
Realized
Things
Belly
Set
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
Jonathan Winters
War
Art
Business
School
Comedy
Three
Before
Painting
Took
Enrolled
Out
Fact
Dayton
Well
Doing
Came
Years
Began
Art School
Ohio
In Fact
Hold
Then
Show
Show Business
Painted
Started
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
Joni Mitchell
People
Once
Generational
Accept
Ready
Were
Began
Stages
Experimenting
Second
Third
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
Jonny Lang
Kid
Constantly
Could
Referred
Began
Blues
Who
Play
Career
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Joseph McCabe
Rights
Women
Three
Thirty
Find
Within
Am
Feminist
Years
Years Ago
Existence
Left
Began
Human
Human Existence
Sane
Monastery
Two
Defending
I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.
Joseph Stiglitz
Technology
Science
People
Argument
Science And Technology
White
White House
Framework
Lawyers
Winning
Physicist
Buddies
Like
House
Policy
Sort
Were
Lot
Began
Office
Just
Reasoning
Career
Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.
Joyce Carol Oates
Women
Princeton
Students
Integrated
Women Are
Began
Quite
Professors
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
Time
Me
Writing
Year
Months
Would
My Time
Maiden
Write
Take
Along
Fair
Perhaps
Ideas
Most
Wrote
Fairly
Existed
Began
Intense
Rewriting
Stories
Sketches
Notes
Really
Swiftly
Traveled
Eventually
Two
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
Judith Martin
News
Girl
Example
First
White
White House
Section
Out
Rather
For Example
House
Although
Got
Coverage
Began
Often
Social
Copy
Career
Startling
I wanted to find a way to merge my taste as an art and creative director with my new little obsessions: babies and motherhood and all of that. So I began working on my website, Romy and the Bunnies, which is named after my daughter, Romy.
Julia Restoin Roitfeld
Website
Art
Director
Creative
Daughter
Motherhood
Babies
Way
Find
Merge
Obsessions
New
Named
Began
Taste
Wanted
After
Which
Little
Working
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
Julius Erving
Life
People
Other
Relate
Guess
Typical
Books
More
Adult
Adult Life
Had
Read
Began
Moby
Moby Dick
Than
Want
Fiction
Happened
Really
Lives
Things
Biographies
Started
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
Junot Diaz
Death
People
Ending
Old
Worlds
Caribbean
Ways
Immigrant
Indigenous
New
Began
Subsequent
Being
Whether
Place
Which
Processes
Worked
Old Ones
Many
Europeans
Millions
Slaves
When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology.
KRS-One
Old
Philosophy
Embark
About
Study
Emphasis
Also
Years
Began
Theology
Career
I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
Karan Patel
Myself
Theatre
School
Dance
Also
Course
Always
Began
Did
Wanted
Acting
Acting School
Prepare
Actor
Career
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
Karen Bender
Family
Bible
Son
School
Walk
Carolina
Out
Kindergarten
City
Only
Students
He
New
Began
North
Child
North Carolina
York
Moved
New York
Middle
New York City
After
Which
Novel
Second
Watched
Belt
Jewish
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury
Dreams
Fall
Bookstore
Bookstores
Those
Dream
Seeing
Struggling
Felt
How
Began
Wonder
Close
Owners
Owning
Apart
Now
Watched
I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.
Kasie Hunt
War
College
Correspondent
Foreign
Iraq
Iraq War
Began
Wanted
Initially
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