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Mariah Carey was the first singer I ever listened to.
Anitta
First
Singer
Listened
Ever
Mariah Carey
I had been wanting to peel back the layers of who I am for so long, but I felt like I needed to prove how solid my work is first.
Anitta
Work
Long
First
Peel
Back
Solid
Layers
Had
Like
Felt
How
Am
Prove
Been
Wanting
Who
Needed
When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.
Ann-Margret
First
Before
Out
Scared
Performed
Over
Heads
Look
Audience
Really
Started
On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
Ann-Margret
Women
Girl
Three
First
Secretary
Hairdresser
Were
Movie
Producer
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Book
First
Fall
Playwright
Knees
Became
Accidentally
Then
Your
Who
Novelist
Actor
Started
Career
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
Ann Aguirre
Thoughts
Woman
Book
First
Feelings
Believe
Sold
Says
Though
Sexual
Spine
Write
Written
Tense
Protagonist
First-Person
Person
Certainly
Differently
Present
Present Tense
Desires
When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.
Ann Cotton
First
Complete
More
More And More
Through
Study
Most
Learn
Learned
Doing
Continue
Years
Where
Worked
Communities
Village
Novice
Zimbabwe
My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's Dead.' How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12?
Ann Coulter
Music
Age
People
First
Other
Elton
Kid
John
Simon
Road
Goodbye
Liked
Dead
Greatest
How
Still
Were
Greatest Hits
Yellow
Hits
Listen
Little
Little Kid
Brick
Many
Albums
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
Ann Dowd
Education
School
First
Spent
Mass
Catholic
Catholic School
Were
Years
The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.
Ann Dowd
Time
First
Read
First Time
Leftovers
Get
I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
Ann Hood
Mother
Thought
First
About
Something
Step
Divorce
Deal
Witnessed
How
Am
Hand
Lot
Children
In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt.
Ann Kirkpatrick
Example
First
Pay
Congress
Down
Every
Month
Percent
Take
Proposed
Had
Part
Support
Leading
Returned
Years
Debt
Effort
Cut
Paycheck
Bipartisan
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
Ann Leckie
Writing
Made
First
Before
Think
Had
Been
Sale
Short
Fiction
Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.
Ann Makosinski
Me
You
Learning
Invent
First
Everything
Given
Steps
Encourages
Being
Create
Things
My first toy was a box of transistors.
Ann Makosinski
First
Toy
Box
My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my first book without a clinch cover came out, she said to me: 'Finally, a book I can read on the Metro.'
Ann Maxwell
Me
Book
Daughter
First
Finally
Out
Student
She
Read
Without
Said
Came
Cover
George
Metro
George Washington
Romances
Loves
Washington
University
Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.
Ann Rinaldi
Life
Me
Little Things
Girl
First
Before
Plymouth
About
Fact
Instance
Over
Also
Boy
Pilgrims
Duel
Coming
Surprised
Led
America
Little
Holland
Fought
Things
Two
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
Ann Romney
Great
Opportunity
First
First Lady
Advantage
Importance
Make
Make A Difference
Greatest
Issues
Truly
Difference
Being
Lady
Presents
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
Ann Romney
Cleaning
Old
Job
First
Miner
Mines
Kids
Out
Determined
Bottles
He
First Job
Arms
Got
Am
Welsh
His
Years
Wales
Get
Six
Little
Granddaughter
Coal
Who
Village
Dad
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
We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.
Ann Veneman
Experience
First
Think
Several
About
Since
Learned
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Disease
Europe
European
Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
Ann Wilson
Music
Great
You
Word
Great Deal
First
Energy
Every
Back
Way
Records
Written
Put
Looked
Make
Deal
Making
Were
Just
Whole
Thing
I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
Anna Benson
Beautiful
Mistake
Girl
First
Out
Had
First Child
Headstrong
Always
Got
Been
Child
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.
Anna Camp
Job
First
Earnest
First Job
Importance
Doing
Being
Center
Theater
Regional
Started
Dallas
From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
Anna Chlumsky
Mom
Me
First
Our
Would
Kinds
Something
Liked
She
Read
Parts
Very
Want
Scripts
Agent
Start
For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
Love
Me
People
First
Ideas
First Of All
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