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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Larry David
Some
Bleak
Days
Until
Doing
Were
Very
Standup
Started
Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
Larry Dixon
Me
Snake
On And Off
Everything
Has-Been
About
He
Look
Track
Been
Off
Just
Where
Race
Mean
Company
Shown
Now
Started
I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
Lars Larsen
Had
Up
Started
When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
Laura Anne Gilman
History
Feedback
Negative
First
Big
Back
Runner-Up
Folk
Some
Staying
Dead
Industry
Alternate
Because
Tight
Well-Meaning
Got
Still
Big Thing
Epic
Fantasy
Working
Thing
Started
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Life
Service
Daily
Heart
Mother
Father
Mind
Parents
Giving
Community
Philanthropists
Extraordinary
Late
John
Generosity
Know
Most
Make
Him
Contributions
Hands-On
Story
Dedicated
Community Service
Who
Whose
Her
Started
Philanthropic
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Business
School
Philanthropy
Courses
Existed
Graduate
Graduate School
Teaching
Strategic
Stanford
Started
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy
Music
Soul
Old
Country
Kind
Write
Had
Feel
Country Music
Soul Music
Ballads
Were
Norah
Lot
Wanted
Old Country
Elements
Bring
Started
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.
Laura Mvula
People
Writing
Try
Long
Think
Desperately
Tool
Way
Say
Something
Voice
Songs
Feel
Like
Another
Became
Understand
Doing
Trying
Going
Listener
Just
Woo
Then
Using
Helps
Right
Started
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
Laura Mvula
Writing
About
Talk
Singer
She
Pioneer
Endlessly
Listened
Her
Started
Amy
Amy Winehouse
I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
Laura Osnes
Myself
Amazing
Community
Booked
Months
Broadway
Run
Point
Through
Absolutely
Feel
Over
Like
Audition
South
Huge
Getting
Six
Just
After
Pacific
Midway
Agent
Turning
Turning Point
Fortunately
Found
Started
Grease
When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
Laura Trott
Girl
First
Cycling
Incredible
Out
Unbelievable
Sport
Were
Just
Successful
Now
Growth
Started
Two
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Words
Other
Else
Teens
Everyone
Everyone Else
Paper
Horror
Having
Compulsion
Write
Put
Like
Until
Read
Does
Off
Than
Children
Fantasy
Started
When I first heard my song 'Georgia Peaches' on the radio, I opened up the car windows and started screaming to the other people on the road, 'My song's on the radio!' Of course, I wasn't driving.
Lauren Alaina
People
Song
Car
First
Other
Windows
Driving
Road
Opened
Course
Heard
Georgia
Up
Screaming
Radio
Peaches
Started
I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
Lauren Bacall
Death
Me
Down
Appropriate
Kid
Would
Scared
Shake
Scene
Could
Head
Pros
Looked
Around
Discovered
Up
Hands
Started
Kept
I started in this business on soap operas.
Lauren Holly
Business
Operas
Soap
Soap Operas
Started
I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.
Lauren Holmes
Me
Writing
School
Seriously
College
Gave
Pursue
Had
Well
Read
Got
Permission
Real
Time-Consuming
Effort
Who
Elementary
Elementary School
Professor
Started
Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
Lauren Lapkus
Me
Got
Doing
Improv
Really
Whole
Started
Career
When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, 'Oh, God, this is not right.' When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.
Lauren Miller
God
Mom
Doctor
Our
Finally
Telling
Brother
Take
Had
Like
Repeating
Questions
Same
Oh
Oh God
Stories
Asking
Twenties
Dad
Her
Right
Things
Early
Started
I stayed in the East for about a year after I graduated. Then, I came out to Los Angeles and started knocking on doors and working my way up. This was the '70s. I had been told how tough it was for a woman trying to make it in Hollywood, but I sort of had blinders on. I just did things anyway.
Lauren Shuler Donner
Woman
Tough
Year
Doors
Way
East
Out
Stayed
Angeles
About
About A Year
Had
Knocking
Make
Sort
Blinders
How
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Been
Up
Trying
Did
Graduated
Just
After
Anyway
Hollywood
Then
Working
Things
Started
This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.
Lauren Southern
Government
Knowledge
First
Hundred
Seizing
Couple
Said
Doing
South
South African
Quite
African
Public
Farms
Started
When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
Lauren Tom
Charity
Joy
Sense
Club
Community
Luck
Out
Kind
Emcee
Colleges
More
Talk
Became
Came
Model
Role
Role Model
Being
Asian
Much
Acting
Connected
Now
Things
Started
It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as 'photo therapy.' I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera.
Lauren Wasser
Myself
Strength
Journey
Me
Change
My Journey
Beauty
Took
Hundreds
Photo
Photographer
See
Girlfriend
Recovered
Through
Pictures
Until
Sort
Camera
Grew
Process
Which
Lens
Therapy
Jennifer
Her
Things
Started
After my second, I started working with a nutritionist who specializes in post-baby weight loss. It's called Simply Beautiful Mom. I'm in restaurants all the time because of work, and she actually will look at menus online before I go and she says, 'These are the three things you're allowed to order. Don't even open a menu.'
Lauren Weisberger
Work
Beautiful
Time
Mom
You
Will
Three
Before
Nutritionist
Says
Restaurants
Online
Menu
Open
Allowed
Weight
Weight Loss
Simply
Look
She
Because
Go
Loss
Order
After
Working
Who
Even
Actually
Things
Second
Started
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.
Lauren Worsham
Spelling
Jobs
City
More
New
Opera
Got
Bee
York
New York
New York City
After
Landing
Started
I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
Laurence Yep
Teacher
Me
Age
Writing
School
National
Seventeen
Later
Bit
High
Threat
Magazine
High School
Something
Had
Withdrew
Bug
Because
Accepted
Said
Get
Who
Started
I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'
Laurie Hernandez
You
Down
Gymnastics
Remembered
Knew
Almost
Felt
Go
Lot
Going
Just
Where
Wanted
Really
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Fun
Moments
Keep
Keep Going
Eventually
Started
Olympics
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