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I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
Adriana Trigiani
Love
Library
Old
Reading
Whatever
Own
Earnest
Nine
Books
Out
My Own
Allowed
Check
Fell
Around
Years
Began
Wanted
Choose
Choosing
I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.
Adwoa Aboah
Grateful
Emotions
Feeling
Own
Complain
Background
About
Entirely
My Own
Part
Am
Came
Privileged
Which
Played
I came from a very corporate environment, but my own style is quite approachable, warm, and very detail oriented.
Aerin Lauder
Style
Own
Corporate
Detail
My Own
Environment
Came
Very
Quite
Warm
Oriented
At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.
Afrojack
Music
You
People
Own
Other
Favorite
Signature
Solo
Gigs
See
My Own
Songs
Put
Performance
Hours
Also
Came
Lot
Festival
Just
Artists
Why
Play
Here
Set
When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
Agnes Obel
Music
Myself
Big
Own
Everything
Record
My Own
Had
Studio
Working
Started
Chance
What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.
Agnes Obel
Freedom
You
Care
Own
Project
Immense
Berlin
Kind
Would
Adopted
My Own
Could
Nobody
Like
Sort
Because
Felt
Discovered
Any
Start
My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.
Agnetha Faltskog
Life
My Life
Country
Big
Own
Other
My Own
Contains
Dogs
Children
Place
Grandchildren
Many
Things
Two
I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
Aisha Tyler
Hope
Own
Bit
Kindest
My Own
Detriment
Supportive
Most
Am
Friend
Up
Little
Little Bit
Ever
I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
Aja Naomi King
Hope
God
Faith
Me
Book
Own
Way
Out
Jobs
Would
Something
My Own
Allow
Step
Pray
Continue
Quit
Getting
Just
Act
If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?
Ajay Devgan
Me
Somebody
Kiss
Before
Own
Starts
Else
Would
Someone
My Own
Remake
Had
Dropped
Announced
French
Am
Subject
After
Film
Started
My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats here in the nation's capital.
Ajit Pai
Business
People
Internet
Nation
Own
Run
My Own
Lawyers
Bureaucrats
Capital
Should
View
Business People
Engineers
Here
The Internet has enriched my own life immeasurably.
Ajit Pai
Life
Internet
Own
Enriched
My Own
I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.
Akiva Schaffer
Music
Videos
Own
Music Videos
Favorite
Spike
My Own
Directors
Daughters
Like
Make
Always
Bands
Jam
Loved
Used
Pearl
Pearl Jam
I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
Akshay Kumar
Own
Action
On-Screen
Athletic
Guy
My Own
Stunts
Known
Does
Screen
Who
Actor
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Own
Arabia
Threats
Kingdom
My Own
Attacks
Highest
Tower
Because
Terrorist
Center
Which
Twice
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
Al Capp
Today
Generation
Own
Worse
My Own
Nobody
Were
Than
Listened
Just
Repulsive
Younger
Younger Generation
Us
Ignorant
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Al Franken
Political
Own
Out
My Own
Could
Never
Stuff
Wrote
Felt
Left
SNL
Grind
Should
Show
Beliefs
Axe
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Al Lewis
Entertainment
Single
Own
Every
Medicine
Medium
Carnival
Circus
Some
My Own
Had
Years
Exist
Worked
Show
Radio
Including
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.
Alafair Burke
Dark
Own
Think
Back
Secrets
About
My Own
Could
Families
Maybe
Literary
Held
Exploration
Now
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
Alain de Botton
Education
Father
Made
Own
My Own
He
Clear
Then
Paid
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
Alan Bradley
Work
Own
Would
Would-Be
Something
My Own
More
Knew
Long-Lasting
Always
Material
Than
Wanted
Short-Lived
Electronic
My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.
Alan C. Greenberg
Money
Father
Mind
Thought
Made
Own
Brothers
My Own
Split
Never
Had
He
Make
Making
Go
Brains
Up
Five
Going
Six
Should
Youngest
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
Alan Dean Foster
Character
Book
Own
Every
One Book
Someone
My Own
Directly
Known
Just
Based
Amusement
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
Alan Dean Foster
Me
Own
Bad
Rapidly
Would
Bored
Something
My Own
Rather
Something New
Tendency
New
Know
Read
Material
Get
Rewriting
Story
Mean
Hard
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst
Own
Think
Honestly
Invented
My Own
Genre
Historical
Spy
Novel
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
Alan Hovhaness
Culture
Emotions
Beginning
Own
Older
About
My Own
Know
Armenian
Well
Identity
Although
Greater
Grew
Anything
Found
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