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Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
Janet Evanovich
Business
Book
Writing
Try
Somewhere
Nothing
Later
Finally
Telling
Would
About
Ten
Ten Years
Had
Knew
Along
Liked
Got
Line
Years
Getting
Stories
Decided
Realized
Working
Skills
Hard
Keep
Published
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
Jared Diamond
Work
Environmental
Time
Me
History
Book
First
Important
Find
More
Putting
Doing
Years
Began
Decided
Interest
Really
Working
Grant
Now
Things
Start
For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.
Jarvis Cocker
Me
You
Say
Those
Insane
Out
TV
Outcome
Find
Something
Rather
Drives
Talk
Also
Hand
Get
Essay
Going
Maybe
Just
Decided
Pause
Ask
Researchers
Why
Awkward
But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.
Jason Biggs
Weather
Take Advantage
Take
Lazy
Advantage
Off
Get
Just
Decided
Then
Butt
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
Jason Blum
Art
People
Everybody
Could
Contemporary
Involved
Contemporary Art
Understand
Lot
Wanted
Decided
Ridiculed
Found
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
Jason Kilar
Business
School
Job
First
Took
Months
Harvard
Reaction
Said
Go
Campus
Get
Walt
Walt Disney
After
Decided
Then
Disney
Business School
Company
Belong
Here
I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.
Jason Momoa
Art
Myself
People
Own
Our
Out
Talented
Talented People
Ideas
Make
Around
Lot
Friends
Just
Wanna
Decided
Gonna
Really
Thing
Things
Set
Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.
Jason Mraz
Myself
Entertainment
Live
Guess
Once
Hustle
Ten
Ten Years
Supporting
Well
Trade
Go
Go For It
Been
Years
Decided
Happily
Breakthrough
Moment
Now
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
Jay Roach
Success
Better
Unless
Bit
Something
Could
Had
Powers
Audience
Caught
Surprise
Austin
Austin Powers
Wanted
Decided
Little
Little Bit
Us
Even
Second
The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.
Jean-Claude Juncker
Leave
Decided
Means
Brexit
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge
Decision
Society
Machine
Giant
Only
Indispensable
Principal
Accordance
Role
Decide
Decided
Act
Element
I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.
Jean Alesi
Long
Beginning
Possible
Percent
Onto
Lead
Pushed
Concentration
Maximum
Hold
Decided
Hard
Why
I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.
Jean Reno
Work
Teacher
Me
Theatre
School
First
Become
Films
Gave
Impact
About
Something
Had
Major
Major Impact
Attracted
Always
Ambience
American
Wanted
Decided
Us
Film
Actor
Play
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.
Jeff Buckley
First
Become
Musician
Physical
Owned
Decided
Ever
Album
When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
Jeff Lemire
Me
Change
Writing
World
Seriously
First
Become
Before
Would
Cartoonist
Since
Around
Been
Stories
Decided
Then
Illustrating
Right
Watching
You know, in this industry, being an openly queer actor or entertainer, you can play the game your way, or you can play it the industry's way. And I decided to play it my way. I played it the industry's way far too long.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
You
Game
Long
Too
Way
Entertainer
Openly
Know
Industry
Queer
Being
Decided
Far
Your
Actor
Play
Played
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Jeffrey Sachs
Financial
Better
Own
Living
Saving
Bit
Markets
Financial Markets
Borrow
More
Open
Had
Countries
Economies
Well
Doing
Were
Been
Lot
Up
Quite
Decided
Asia
Capital
Successful
International
Even
Early
Here
Early 1990s
I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.
Jeffrey Tambor
People
Mine
Tell
Part
Stories
Decided
Interested
Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.
Jen Sincero
Life
Day
Change
Age
Reality
My Life
Live
Living
Back
Broke
Always
Decided
Converted
Then
Garage
When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, 'The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.'
Jen Sincero
Book
Try
Girl
Become
National
Lesbian
Sleeping
Guide
Out
Bestseller
Instead
Wrote
Off
Chicks
Being
Decided
Either
Straight
Plans
Second
Pan
Pull
I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
Jenna Bush
Home
Me
Latin
Latin America
About
More
Inspired
Students
Countries
Learn
Because
Go
America
Decided
Region
Many
Washington
I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.
Jenna Morasca
Home
Mother
Cancer
Seven
Days
Returned
Passing
Up
Survivor
Ended
Closer
Quit
Order
After
Decided
Breast Cancer
Who
Away
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.
Jenni Rivera
Work
Music
Time
Mother
Haters
Three
Single
Closed
Doors
Music Industry
Typical
Could
Divorced
Feel
Industry
Single Mother
Prove
Labels
Model
Closed Doors
Artist
Done
Getting
Size
Decided
Your
Many
Started
I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
Jenni Rivera
Time
Seriously
Recording
Those
Take
Since
Been
Years
Six
Hobby
Decided
Full
Full-Time
I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.
Jennifer Fallon
Me
You
Wait
Word
Every
Think
Worlds
Gave
Tried
About
Invented
More
Could
Writer
Had
Almost
Most
Until
Genre
Scope
Get
Wanted
Decided
Fantasy
Really
Serious
Play
I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.
Jennifer Morrison
Life
Best
Me
Enjoy Life
Important
Whatever
Situation
Enjoy
Out
Someone
Make
Doing
Discovered
Any
Wanted
Decided
Really
Who
Fun
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