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I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.
Ali Landry
Life
Class
Husband
Big
Personal Life
Had
Big Event
Personal
Going
Then
Theology
Event
Found
Started
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'
Ali Smith
Great
Me
Old
Word
Sky
Country
Clever
Trees
Back
Circles
Tops
About
Myriad
How
Covered
Provide
Forests
Get
Meant
English
Creatures
Homes
Inner
Started
I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.
Alice Dreger
Truth
Food
Truth Is
Cooking
Mother
Stove
Victim
Enslavement
Claim
Having
Could
Hot
Make
Been
Five
Report
Childhood
Being
Wanted
Meant
Cook
Regularly
Near
Started
I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing songs when they're, like, 12, 13. I never thought I would go into songwriting when I was that young.
Alice Merton
Musicians
Song
Writing
Thought
Young
Late
Out
Would
Some
Only
Could
Write
Never
Songs
Songwriting
Like
Go
Discovered
Quite
Started
Starting
I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, 'Maybe graduate school?' I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating.
Alice Smith
Myself
People
School
Smart
Thought
College
Thinking
Stay
Fine
Knew
Stuff
New
Comfortable
Felt
Came
Stimulating
Were
Friends
Very
Forever
New Stuff
York
Graduate
Any
Graduate School
Maybe
Just
New York
Romantic
Wanted
Loved
Really
Who
Cool
Started
I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.
Alice Smith
Good
Me
Way
Something
Voice
Like
Well
Sound
Listen
Then
Separate
Started
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice Walker
Myself
Book
Writing
College
Beginning
Gone
Think
Something
Poems
Had
Sophomore
Until
Wrote
Junior
Child
Maybe
Africa
Published
Actually
Started
The reason that I started the Black Futures Lab is because I have some clarity about what I think needs to happen in relationship to electoral organizing. It's not a destination. It is a set of tools that we use to engage people that we care about, en masse, around issues that are important to us.
Alicia Garza
Needs
Relationship
Destination
People
Care
Black
Important
Think
Tools
Futures
Clarity
Some
About
Masse
Because
Around
Issues
Lab
Happen
Us
Engage
Electoral
Use
Organizing
Reason
Started
Set
From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.
Alicia Silverstone
Life
My Life
Way
Married
Shaken
More
Could
Stuck
Feel
Like
Around
Got
Came
Womanhood
Lot
Up
Fix
Get
Wanted
Anything
Turmoil
Realized
Then
Working
Grow
Started
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
Alicia Vikander
Music
Old
Parents
Young
Sleeping
Babysitter
Seven
Musicals
Find
Wings
Divorced
She
Sound
Sound Of Music
Doing
Years
Off
Les
Les Miserables
Actress
Mum
Started
I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.
Aliko Dangote
Food
Thought
Salt
Sugar
Too
Added
Tried
Food Chain
Could
Bag
Make
Always
Making
Trading
Up
Pasta
Move
Moved
Cement
Banking
Packaging
Then
Chain
Why
Why Not
Flour
Started
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
Alison Bechdel
Men
Drawing
Out
Bored
About
Only
Taken
Stuff
Get
Started
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
Alison Gopnik
Me
History
Together
School
Revolution
Difficult
Philosophy
Would
Taking
Putting
Developmental
Most
Scientific
Real
Been
Very
Graduate
Graduate School
Children
Psychology
Place
Fortunately
Started
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
Alison Weir
History
Women
Men
Perception
Seen
Important
About
Written
True
Were
Lot
Historically
Inferior
Subsequently
Far
Researching
Whom
Actually
Started
I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that required more and more challenging vocals, and I just did them. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? So I just sort of did what I had to do to make the songs sound the way I wanted them to.
Alissa White-Gluz
Writing
Mother
Invention
First
Band
Progressive
Way
Kind
Vocals
More
More And More
Had
Songs
Make
Sort
Metal
Sound
Did
Just
Wanted
Them
Required
Challenging
Right
Thing
Started
Necessity
When I was in high school, I started organizing fundraisers and other events for people like PETA and Greenpeace.
Alissa White-Gluz
People
Events
School
Other
High
High School
Like
Greenpeace
Organizing
Started
When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where there was a lot more veganism and straight-edge people and people taking a stance for causes that they believe in.
Alissa White-Gluz
People
Punk
First
Believe
Related
Lyrically
Bit
More
Scenes
Taking
Sort
Metal
Causes
Lot
Where
Little
Little Bit
Stance
Hardcore
Started
Playing
My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Allan Gurganus
Family
Mother
Father
Value
Degree
Important
Master
Before
Nothing
Everything
Extremely
Those
Kids
Having
Price
Had
Like
Know
Schoolteacher
She
Were
Been
Families
Where
Moneymaking
Started
Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
Allan Sherman
Our
Bottom
Act
Downhill
Started
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
Allan Sloan
Best
Myself
Business
Writing
Job
Own
Analysis
Say
Topic
My Own
Voice
Perfect
Could
Perfect Job
Write
Pick
Knew
Column
Columnist
Attribute
Years
Years Ago
Wanted
Found
Started
In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.
Allison Anders
Vision
Brilliant
Timing
Independent
American
Personal
Movie
Held
Premium
Early
Started
I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.
Allison Janney
Great
Me
Women
Parents
Beauty
Everything
City
Wearing
Dress
Having
Through
He
Put
Supported
New
Ball
Years
Five
American
Did
York
Same
New York
New York City
Happen
Theater
Then
Working
Who
Alan
Started
I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.
Allison Janney
Confidence
Think
Late
Some
Like
Because
Felt
Issues
Maybe
Height
Started
Career
When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
Ally Brooke
Old
Performing
Around
Years
Texas
San
San Antonio
Hometown
Started
I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just - great, great with me.
Ally Walker
Great
Me
Together
People
Made
First
Mark
Those
Gig
Long-Running
Days
Like
How
Were
Walker
Hit
Get
Just
Taught
Soap
Loved
Them
Really
Act
Helped
Professional
Started
Basically
Pulled
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
Alma Guillermoprieto
News
Daily
History
You
Long
Power
Looking
Revolution
Think
Extremely
Havana
Seems
Had
Part
Like
Cuban
Been
Years
Childhood
Realized
Traveled
Now
Daily News
Started
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