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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
Al Franken
Writing
Internet
Websites
First
Worry
Latest
Seventies
Television
TV
TV Shows
About
Online
Foreign
Blockbuster
Exist
Eighties
Movies
Shows
Started
Need
I started recording in '67. In the first part of '68, my first single was 'Backup Train.' That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.
Al Green
Success
Degree
Recording
First
Single
Few
Backup
Part
Since
Come
Passed
Years
Up
Sellers
Train
Then
Four
Started
I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers. We sang spirituals. The old regular thing.
Al Green
Old
Singing
Group
Nine
Kid
Brothers
About
Had
Little
Little Kid
Regular
Sang
Thing
Four
Started
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
Al Purdy
Writing
About
Started
Thirteen
Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
Al Walser
Music
Me
Crazy
People
Dance
Nothing
Dance Music
Telling
Like
Looked
Make
Industry
Because
Germany
Getting
Getting Started
Wanted
Radio
Why
Started
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.
Alain Ducasse
Home
Cooking
Meal
Lobster
Bay
Would
Restaurants
Had
After
Prepare
Started
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
Alan Alda
Life
You
Dog
Think
Back
Something
Dead
Lot
Than
After
Anything
Which
While
Deeper
Image
Bring
Started
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
Alan Arkin
Wave
Out
He
Particle
Wrote
Up
Ended
Epitaph
Started
You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
Alan Dershowitz
Terrorism
You
World
First
Think
Thinking
Resort
Would
Would-Be
About
Invented
Without
How
Began
Taught
Them
Successful
Use
Used
International
International Terrorism
Palestinian
Palestinians
Started
Last
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
Alan Greenspan
Fear
Fall
Down
Critical
Slowly
Bubbles
Contagion
Sharply
Look
Forces
Sort
Builds
Causes
Go
Intellectually
Up
Dominant
Very
Shocked
Hits
Size
Which
Apart
Then
Euphoria
Many
Thing
Started
Phenomenon
The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.
Alan Guth
Physics
Young
Cosmology
Idea
Particle
Combining
Very
Modern
Working
Theory
Started
I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.
Alan J. Heeger
Become
Community
Colleagues
Out
Evolved
Physicist
Scientific
Am
Scientist
However
Help
International
Many
Started
My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
Alan Jackson
Mom
Me
You
Mother
Everybody
About
More
Gospel
Always
Going
Wanted
Asking
Started
Album
Kept
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
Alan Moore
Music
Day
Words
Try
Listening
First
Back
Lyrics
Way
Adequacy
Would
Cartoonist
Purely
Write
Writer
Had
Songs
Delusions
Pieces
Instrumental
Get
Trying
Listen
Switched
Started
Career
I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
Alan Ruck
People
School
Drama
High
Angeles
High School
Knew
New
Know
Cleveland
Because
Doing
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Chicago
New People
Up
York
New York
Anybody
Grew
After
After-School
Really
Who
Illinois
Started
Plays
University
When we first started growing our employees, I was scared. I would often think, 'If we had more people, what would they do? Is there really enough work?'
Alan Schaaf
Work
People
First
Employees
Think
Enough
Our
Would
Scared
More
More People
Had
Often
Really
Growing
Started
I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.
Alan Stern
Science
Master
Pluto
Planetary
Thesis
Actually
Started
Career
'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn't expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I'm naturally drawn to.
Alan Taylor
Love
Game
People
World
First
Enjoy
Respond
Drawn
Some
Like
Doing
Lot
Expect
Done
To Love
Fantasy
Realize
Really
Game Of Thrones
Show
Naturally
Who
Thing
Things
Started
Watching
When I started out, at the CBC in Toronto, there was so little work. It was a different world from what it is now. Now we're blessed with so much production in so many Canadian cities.
Alan Thicke
Work
World
Blessed
Out
Cities
Toronto
Canadian
Different
Little
Much
Production
Many
Now
Different World
Started
People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.
Alan Vega
People
First
Back
Way
Rappers
Had
Days
Talk
Sing
Said
Reed
Lou Reed
Reason
Who
Early
Started
Early Days
My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people started explaining me how I had to do it.
Alan Walker
Music
Journey
Me
You
People
My Journey
YouTube
Out
About
Had
Make
How
Began
Explaining
Found
Started
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
Alanis Morissette
Life
Me
My Life
Tool
Once
Purpose
Inspiring
Fame
Offering
Contributing
Get
Again
Then
Really
Used
Fun
Serve
Started
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
Alanis Morissette
Moving On
God
Time
You
Thank God
First
Older
Able
About
More
Write
Know
First Time
Arrive
Line
Up
Thank
Same
Where
Different
Place
Informed
Little
Breakup
Different Place
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Started
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
Book
Crime
First
Enjoy
Think
Took
Books
Saw
Characters
Some
About
Genre
Read
First Time
How
Were
Been
May
Realise
Worked
Page
Used
Novel
Started
I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
Albert Brooks
You
Age
Christopher
Guess
Back
See
Pretty
Give
Feel
Von
Like
Sort
Although
Answer
How
Am
Doing
Go
Max
Done
Going
Little
Mean
Then
Much
Shot
Acting
Now
Started
When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.
Albert Brooks
Comedy
Drive
National
Gone
Down
Think
Bathroom
Television
Out
Would
Tried
Martin
Stuff
Dean
Dean Martin
Were
National Television
Clubs
Them
Then
Used
Even
NBC
Started
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