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Starting in my 20s, I couldn't wait to look like Anna Magnani or Isabelle Huppert, all these great European actresses - Charlotte Rampling - the cheekbones and the heavy lidded eyes and the dark circles under the eyes, you know. So around 42/44, I started getting a little character on my face, and I was so glad.
Justine Bateman
Great
Character
You
Eyes
Dark
Wait
Face
Circles
Charlotte
Glad
Anna
Like
Cheekbones
Know
Look
Around
Getting
Heavy
Little
European
Actress
Started
Starting
I started putting together long-form projects, say, 22 minutes for a sitcom and 42 minutes or something like that for an hour-long show. I didn't feel like it was groundbreaking, nor would anyone think it was groundbreaking now, but at the time, people reacted like it was.
Justine Bateman
Time
Together
People
Think
Projects
Say
Would
Minutes
Something
Putting
Feel
Like
Nor
Time People
Sitcom
Anyone
Show
Now
Started
It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.
Justine Skye
Music
Time
Social Media
College
Building
YouTube
Peel
Project
Releasing
Around
Doing
Covers
Labels
Same
Via
Same Time
Tumblr
Fan
Fan Base
Interest
Social
Then
Original
Original Music
Base
Media
Started
Applying
I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
K. A. Applegate
Time
Me
Age
Writing
Try
Be Brave
Long
Long Time
Become
Young
Sweet
Other
Enough
Took
Valley
Books
Way
Ghost
Out
Kind
Scared
Writer
Fail
Like
Wrote
Very
Brave
Young Age
Public
Really
Disney
Series
Published
Started
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
K. D. Lang
Music
You
Listening
Singing
Say
Kids
Classical
Could
Piano
Studied
Since
Conception
Been
Up
Five
Grew
Youngest
Moment
Who
Ever
Four
Started
I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
K. Flay
People
Kids
Rapping
Could
Consumed
Toured
Until
Hip-Hop
Were
Reverse
Much
Who
Whole
Thing
Started
When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
K. Flay
You
Game
Walk
Try
First
Bat
Kid
Signed
Spin
Excited
Put
Feel
Over
Like
Couple
Sort
Around
Years
Shocked
Nose
Where
Happening
Little
Then
Little Kid
Really
Next
Your
Play
Started
Every ten years, we get a new old school. In 1987, we thought 1977 was the best era in hip-hop. Here we are in 2007, and we're discussing '97/'98, when 50 Cent just started.
KRS-One
Best
School
Old
Thought
Every
Ten
Ten Years
New
Hip-Hop
Era
Years
Discussing
Get
Just
Cent
Old School
Here
Started
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't feel safe.
KRS-One
First
Everywhere
Feel
Like
Safe
Years
Commercial
Just
Flew
Transport
Started
Career
When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
Kacey Musgraves
Music
Out
Kind
Both
Could
Around
Festival
Artist
Wanted
Turn
Then
Who
Play
Started
I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
Kacy Hill
You
School
Dance
Everyone
Saxophone
Phoenix
Kid
Out
Dream
Had
Performing
Performing Arts
Always
Lot
Orchestra
Arts
Wanted
Little
Choir
Act
Sang
Downtown
Started
Playing
I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.
Kaka
Love
Time
Youth
Path
Took
Would
Follow
Some
Similar
Could
He
Like
Liked
Academy
Stopped
Realised
Working
Coaching
Started
Playing
Career
When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.
Kaley Cuoco
Women
Judge
Amazing
Girl
Big
Other
Melissa
Brothers
Girlfriends
Only
Had
New
Like
Because
Big Bang
Felt
Got
Came
Quick
Close
Bang
Then
Really
Show
Now
Four
Started
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco
Thought
Thinking
Say
Bit
Definitely
Kids
Outcast
More
Bullied
Grade
Happier
Fifth
Much
Cool
Started
I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.
Kali Uchis
Music
Me
People
Post
Social Media
Internet
Own
Okay
Out
My Own
Take
Put
Said
Going
Just
Decided
Interest
Social
Media
Rounds
Started
When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.
Kali Uchis
Good
Me
Creative
Feel Good
Made
Everything
Would
Classes
Outlet
Songs
Put
Feel
Stuff
Like
Around
Got
Making
Lot
Just
Skip
Creative Outlet
Started
Playing
We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
Kalpana Chawla
Me
Opportunity
Sense
Stars
Gave
Gazed
Once
Way
Those
Some
Like
Caught
Questions
Very
Wonder
Times
Shooting
Heavens
While
Ask
Milky Way
Awe
Basic
Started
As a young prosecutor right out of law school at the Alameda County DA's office that Earl Warren once led, I started my work.
Kamala Harris
Work
Law
School
Young
Once
Out
Law School
Prosecutor
County
Led
Office
Warren
Right
Earl
Started
Music is an expression of who you are, and - at least in that sense - I think I epitomize Black Lives Matter. I'm a big black man, and I'm easily misunderstood. Before I started wearing these African clothes, people would assume that I was a threat and that it was O.K. to be violent toward me.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Me
You
Man
People
Matter
Black
Big
Before
Clothes
Sense
Think
Assume
Easily
Would
Threat
Wearing
Toward
Misunderstood
Least
African
Who
Expression
Lives
Started
Violent
I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but what really blew me away was 'The Rite of Spring.' That's what made me get interested in classical music for real and want to study it.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Me
Made
Spring
Some
Angeles
Classical
Classical Music
Rite
Ravel
Study
Liked
Academy
Blew
Real
Los
Los Angeles
Friends
Get
Want
Interested
Really
Who
Away
Started
Playing
I started playing with this band, the Polyester Players. It was my introduction into funk. So I went and got a James Brown record. 'Black Caesar' is a film score, but it's so dope.
Kamasi Washington
Black
Band
Dope
Introduction
Record
Brown
Caesar
Got
Score
James
James Brown
Polyester
Film
Players
Started
Playing
Funk
We started 'Heaven And Earth' in 2016. That was probably the heaviest touring year of my whole life. We probably did almost 200 shows in 2016. We went into the studio, and I honestly didn't know what the album was going to be. So I just kind of started picking songs that I liked.
Kamasi Washington
Life
Year
Honestly
Earth
Kind
Songs
Touring
Studio
Picking
Almost
Know
Liked
Did
Going
Heaven
Just
Heaviest
Just Kind
Whole
Shows
Started
Album
We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren't doing something, you had to look like you were, or some hard labor was coming your way. That's the reason I started practicing music - when I was practicing, Pops left me alone.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Alone
Me
You
Age
Young
Our
Way
Some
Something
Had
Like
Look
Learned
Practicing
Coming
Doing
Were
Left
Labor
Young Age
Your
Hard
Reason
Pops
Even
Dad
Started
I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.
Kameron Hurley
Writing
Books
Find
Read
Because
Shelf
Wanted
Started
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
Kamisese Mara
Government
Think
Telephone
Has-Been
About
Parliament
Had
Coup
Democratic
Been
Overthrown
Done
Pacific
Then
Deputy
Union
Sat
Chairman
Round
Started
There are people a lot smarter, a lot more talented than I am, people who've accomplished things I can only imagine. Often, they started from the most humble of circumstances. That's my message: freedom and opportunity. That's the American Dream.
Kane
Freedom
Humble
People
Opportunity
Circumstances
Dream
More
Only
Smarter
Talented
Most
Message
Am
Accomplished
Lot
Than
American
Often
American Dream
Things
Started
Imagine
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