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In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!
Alison Weir
History
People
Finished
First
Down
Books
Those
Carried
Out
Find
About
Proper
Could
Adult
Facts
Had
Put
True
Days
Like
Read
Historical
Began
History Books
Did
Behind
Story
Story Books
Really
Katherine
Novel
Found
Fourteen
Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.
Alistair Horne
War
Intelligence
Numerous
Algeria
Jihad
Back
Though
Following
Could
Between
Look
Years
Years Ago
Began
Links
Roots
I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.
Allan Sherman
Crazy
Steady
Could
Until
Making
Salary
Began
Afford
Decide
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.
Alonzo Mourning
People
Doctor
Challenge
Increased
Once
Kidney
Constant
Risk
Like
Greatest
Greatest Challenge
Exhaustion
Causing
Began
Disease
May
Explained
Fortunately
Illnesses
Serious
Treating
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
Alvin Lee
Musicians
Listening
Guitarist
First
Big
Band
Christian
Solos
Charlie
Goodman
Big Band
Began
Notice
Who
Play
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
Amin Maalouf
Youth
Others
Uncles
Idea
Like
Unthinkable
Cuba
Go
Lebanon
Left
Began
Australia
America
Egypt
Realise
Moving
Might
Grandfather
Then
Who
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.
Amitava Kumar
Become
Year
Fall
Though
Writer
Had
Study
Come
Arrived
Began
Intending
Graduate
After
Literature
Paint
Even
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
Amity Gaige
Life
Me
People
World
Job
College
Before
Several
Telling
Folded
Would
Some
Had
Come
Years
Began
Campus
Just
Stories
Center
Urban
Worked
Reason
Kept
When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.
Amor Towles
Me
Old
Met
Ocean
Lasted
Correspondence
Threw
Bottle
Massachusetts
Him
Years
Began
Note
Found
Eventually
When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.
Amy Irving
Home
Long
First
Gone
Films
Way
Factor
Part
How
Lot
Began
Roles
Going
Just
Difference
Children
While
Choose
Whole
Dad
Now
Away
Career
Plays
I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.
Andra Day
School
Church
Singing
Band
Jazz
Danced
Musical
Musical Theater
Vocal
Could
Lead
Knew
Performance
Sing
Another
Always
Praise
Doing
Began
Just
Arts
Theater
While
Interested
Really
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
Andrea Bocelli
Me
People
Ride
Passion
Big
Has-Been
Born
Horses
Because
Been
Began
Up
Child
Grew
Little
Many
Village
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
Andrea Bocelli
Life
Time
Great
Happy
My Life
First
Singing
Baby
Would
Crying
Singer
First Time
Heard
Began
Stop
Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment.
Andrea Della Valle
People
Clothes
Right Moment
Changing
Caught
Were
Began
Tastes
Formal
Moving
Moving Away
Moment
Away
Right
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
Andres Segovia
Writing
Guitar
Circle
Virtuoso
Composers
Were
Began
Vicious
I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Buy
Time
Rights
Think
Back
Musical
Exactly
John
Able
About
Having
Glad
Idea
Make
Because
Doing
Were
Opposition
Lot
Began
Up
Did
Ended
Quite
Quite A Lot
Movie
Wanted
Hollywood
Meant
Film
Found
Now
I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
Andrew Pyper
Life
Law
My Life
Before
Spending
Out
Hated
Doing
Began
Quit
Just
Cut
Imagine
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.
Andrew Weil
Time
People
Degree
Think
Respond
Rapidly
Obesity
Eat
Some
Rates
Rising
More
Small
More Or Less
Compulsive
Likely
Frequent
Making
Tandem
Hear
Began
May
Endorsement
Meals
Them
Less
Many
Actually
Widespread
Coincidence
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Andrew Wyeth
Age
First
Painting
Macbeth
Steadily
Had
New
Began
York
New York
Gallery
Show
After attending The Dalton School and then Vassar College, I began cooking in New York City restaurants helmed by Anne Rosenzweig, Joachim Splichal and Thomas Keller.
Andrew Zimmern
Cooking
School
College
Thomas
City
Restaurants
Attending
Anne
New
Began
York
New York
New York City
After
Then
Keller
A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that's where it began, really.
Aneurin Barnard
Youth
People
Old
Sunday
Young
Every
Every Sunday
Local
Once
Mine
Mentioned
Could
Amateur
Go
Years
Friend
Began
Where
Theater
Young People
Really
Nearby
I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
Ang Lee
Hope
People
Projection
Better
Unfair
Down
Easily
System
About
Give
More
Price
Catch
New
Sophisticated
Because
Equipment
Go
Began
Up
Get
Jaded
Just
Hold
Which
Really
Even
Compare
Chance
Filmmakers
I want to play for Central because I love the club. I was raised there and taught football there. Central is where it all began for me.
Angel Di Maria
Love
Me
Club
Football
Because
Began
Taught
Where
Want
Central
Play
Raised
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!
Angel Olsen
Work
Saying
Me
Thoughts
You
People
Writing
Singing
Enjoy
Enough
Way
Melody
Kind
Songs
Weird
Invisible
Catchy
Know
Because
How
Making
Began
Listen
Really
Certain
Working
Your
Certain Way
Hard
Even
When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.
Ann Hood
Day
Eyes
Writing
World
Stars
Every
Hoped
Would
City
See
Some
Attendant
Adventures
Began
Wanted
Fuel
Flight
English
Her
Career
When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to.
Ann Turner
Writing
Events
First
Young
Other
Added
Characters
Would
Mary
Lead
Idea
Wrote
She
Sure
Occurred
Off
Fitted
Began
Endings
Just
Where
Different
Story
Skeleton
Then
Initial
Even
Bright
Her
Started
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