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This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Art
Me
Made
Ardently
Study
New
Impression
Began
Deep
I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.
Rupi Kaur
Myself
Me
Mind
Entitled
First
Big
Possible
Dream
Write
Writer
Idea
Call
Began
Being
Even
Published
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Russell Baker
Myself
World
Alien
Lonely
Gave
Poetry
Hostile
Between
New
Like
Most
Messages
Read
Passing
Years
Years Ago
Began
Up
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
Russell Banks
Thought
Reading
Become
Late
Late Teens
Teens
Visual
Drifted
Talent
Boy
Began
Artist
Artistic
Literature
Serious
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
Ruth First
Law
Area
Write
Study
Policy
Occupation
Began
African
Apartheid
Aside
Workings
Reserves
Early
Set
'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
Ruth Rendell
Me
Book
Previous
Written
Boy
Friend
Began
Any
Story
Chimney
Derives
Novel
Actually
Differently
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Dictatorship
First
Own
Mark
Considers
Some
My Own
Poetic
Polemic
Began
Movement
Experiments
Justification
Origin
Even
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
Sam Raimi
Great
Films
Saw
About
Something
Constructing
Feature
Feature Films
Had
Head
Adventure
Making
Began
Capturing
Film
Designed
My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.
Sander Levin
Time
Home
Class
Benefits
Job
College
First
Build
Sister
Late
Kids
Brother
Able
Detroit
Develop
Retirement
Retirement Benefits
First Time
Go
Were
Lines
Began
Yes
Middle
Where
Middle Class
Racial
Across
Raised
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
Sara Zarr
Try
Gone
Back
Books
Characters
Point
Through
Because
Began
End
Familiar
Where
Different
Growth
Bring
It was a very critical moment for me when I began working with David Cronenberg and seeing this amazing director and creator choose to base himself out of Toronto.
Sarah Gadon
Me
Director
Amazing
Out
Critical
Toronto
Cronenberg
Seeing
David
Himself
Began
Very
Working
Choose
Moment
Base
Creator
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
Sarah Zettel
Life
Myself
Challenges
Science
World
Research
Extremely
Thoroughly
Possibilities
Intrigued
More
Hostile
Environment
Venus
Science Fiction
However
Lot
Began
Author
Offers
Fiction
Wants
Create
Who
Found
Now
Presents
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.
Saul David
Education
Alone
History
Achievement
Justice
Law
Market
Giants
Introduce
Civil
Weights
Him
Napoleon
Makes
Began
Ambitious
Reform
Uniform
Internal
Measures
Fully
Programme
It wasn't until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called 'Black and Blue,' and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began.
Savion Glover
Great
Relationship
Women
Progress
Dance
Black
Men
Men And Women
Met
Musical
Responsible
Great Men
Paris
Until
Tap
Began
Did
Blue
Really
I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all.
Savion Glover
Me
Down
Dancing
Alive
Since
Been
Tapping
Began
Just
Want
Dying
Keep
Ever
Started
I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.
Sayed Kashua
Change
Change Things
Other
Side
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Write
Had
Heard
Began
Stories
Grandmother
Believing
Things
I began with track and field because this is what I know.
Sergei Bubka
Field
Know
Track
Track And Field
Because
Began
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
Sharon Kay Penman
Women
First
Research
Elsewhere
Status
Laws
More
Greater
Welsh
Years
Years Ago
Discovery
Began
Wales
Than
Moved
Europe
Fascinated
Twenty
Enjoyed
Here
Medieval
Dragons
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
Sharon Olds
Experience
Beginning
Others
Section
Poems
Had
Written
Well
Wellspring
Began
In The Beginning
Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
Shashi Tharoor
World
Fear
First
Nation
Visibly
Minister
India
Lay
Consumed
Prime
Prime Minister
Were
Inexpressible
Question
Began
Five
Decades
Subtext
After
Who
I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.
Shaun Tan
You
Father
Country
Reading
Immigrant
Some
About
More
Bearing
Fact
Had
He
Idea
Particularly
Attraction
Became
Malaysia
Subject
Began
Familiar
May
Being
Stories
Interested
Chinese
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely read Finn abroad. She began her life as an artist early - she had her first drawing published at fifteen.
Sheila Heti
Life
Day
First
Books
Drawing
Abroad
Finnish
Writer
Had
Most
She
Read
Began
Artist
Children
Fifteen
Successful
Published
Her
Illustrator
Widely
Early
Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late '70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors.
Sheila Heti
Late
Photographs
Scenarios
New
Dolls
Domestic
Began
York
New York
Then
Interiors
Plastic
Showing
Her
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
Shelby Foote
Writing
Everybody
Way
Find
Poetry
Writers
Heard
Hand
Began
Trying
Quite
Usual
Ever
Nearly
In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Physics
Strong
Quilt
Weak
Studied
Study
Clearly
Particles
Like
Disciplines
Doing
Were
Began
Taught
Interactions
Them
Separate
Separately
Theoretical
Theory
Elementary
Coherent
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.
Shereen El Feki
Myself
World
Better
Sex
Citadel
Arab
Muslim
Comprehend
Outsiders
Part
Like
West
Began
Up
Personal
Egyptian
Grew
Pivotal
Far
Roots
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