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When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
Aloe Blacc
Myself
Made
Everyone
Out
Jobs
Distribution
Recorded
Songs
Wrote
Mastered
Understand
Doing
Mixed
Did
Artwork
Packaging
Them
Who
Now
Right
Started
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee
Listening
Benny
Clarinet
Records
Inspired
Goodman
Off
After
Dad
Started
Playing
I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.
Alyson Stoner
Age
Dancing
Hip-Hop
Ohio
Started
I started dancing at the age of three in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and it really was my sister's dream to pursue dance professionally.
Alyson Stoner
Age
Dance
Three
Sister
Dancing
Dream
Pursue
Ohio
Really
Professionally
Hometown
Started
I remember going on stage for the very first time as a solo act, I was probably, like, nine or 10 years old. And being backstage, I started having anxiety... I was literally getting sick.
Alyssa Edwards
Time
Anxiety
Remember
Old
First
Stage
Sick
Nine
Backstage
Solo
Having
Like
First Time
Years
Very
Getting
Going
Being
Literally
Act
Started
My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point, like, 'What do I do?' And I thought the only thing I can do is create mine, make my family, and I did that.
Alyssa Edwards
Alone
Family
Age
Thought
Mine
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Having
Only
Having Children
Point
Like
Make
Very
Very Early Age
Sisters
Did
Just
Children
The Only Thing
Create
Thing
Early
Started
Early Age
I remember when I started performing, I thought, 'Why is this something that we do after hours, underground?' I was waiting on the world to change and the idea of this art to become mainstream, and I think that's what 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has really accomplished in such an eloquent way.
Alyssa Edwards
Art
Change
Waiting
World
Remember
Thought
Become
Think
Eloquent
Way
Something
Remember When
Mainstream
Idea
Performing
Hours
Underground
Accomplished
After
Race
Really
Why
Started
Drag
I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.
Alyssa Edwards
Myself
Creative
Outlet
Because
Doing
Creative Outlet
Started
Drag
Needed
Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.
Amanda Foreman
Women
Pride
Practice
Out
Kind
Invaded
Only
Fact
Performed
Identity
Became
Impulse
After
Which
China
Chinese
Shorthand
Turned
Ethnic
Expression
Fashionable
Started
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.
Amanda Seales
Experience
School
Mother
Black
High
High School
Blackness
Until
Identity
Always
Got
American
Hanging
Being
Different
Which
Really
Roots
Actor
Started
Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.
Amanda Tapping
Time
Women
Comedy
Passion
Before
Other
Way
Television
Out
Kind
Smack
Along
Footwear
French
How
Doing
Lines
Very
Sensible
Pony
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Much
Really
Now
Thing
Started
Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.
Amanda Tapping
Women
Wonderful
Strong
Girl
Television
Rarely
Cast
Part
Since
Most
Goofy
Am
Doing
Very
Intelligent
Get
Which
Ever
Started
As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to the gender binary. I thought I had to be a proud woman to be a feminist. Then I came to the realization that I can be proud of women without necessarily identifying as one.
Amandla Stenberg
Woman
Women
Binary
Thought
Gender
Claim
Could
Had
Know
Identifying
Identity
Without
Proud
How
Feminist
Came
Title
Realization
Then
Explore
Necessarily
Started
I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn't comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state.
Amandla Stenberg
Me
Natural
Thought
Hair
Too
State
Mine
Wearing
Kinky
Had
Like
Know
Dead
Comfortable
Parts
Because
Felt
Go
Blossoming
Did
Personally
Straighten
Natural State
Used
Letting
Letting Go
Rejected
Started
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
Amartya Sen
Work
Prevention
Also
Causation
Started
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
Amber Heard
Time
Me
School
College
Incredibly
Correspondence
Bored
Instead
Taking
Well
Courses
Left
Won
Did
Grades
Award
Waste
Waste Of Time
Started
There were no Asian lads boxing when I started.
Amir Khan
Boxing
Were
Lads
Asian
Started
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
Amish Tripathi
Faith
Religion
Me
Blame
Book
People
Writing
Bad People
Cause
Father
College
First
Few
Thinking
Evils
Bad
Riots
Restored
Blast
Because
After
Disillusioned
While
Root
Convinced
Mumbai
Early
Started
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
Amit Bhatia
Great
Thought
Father-In-Law
State
Athens
Indian
About
Something
Wrestling
Results
Had
Sport
Always
Discussing
Lack
Representation
Interest
Etc
Inadequate
Should
Event
Satisfactory
Started
Watching
Olympics
It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.
Amitabh Bachchan
Change
Women
Mother
Percentage
Hairdresser
Leading
Perhaps
Makeup
Huge
Impressive
Person
Just
Ladies
Lady
Really
Working
Used
Started
Number
Set
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
Amy Grant
Singing
Big
Stage
Teenage
Teenage Years
Finally
Churches
Wound
Years
Up
America
Across
Started
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
Amy Hempel
Great
News
You
Writing
Related
Circling
Rules
Easily
Pretty
No Idea
Someone
Great One
Small
Could
Write
Had
Idea
Journalism
Learn
Because
How
Doing
Were
Itself
Did
Closer
Getting
Fiction
Story
News Story
Might
Teach
Thing
Things
Started
I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.
Amy Jackson
Journey
Wonderful
Has-Been
Telugu
Also
Hindi
Am
Doing
Been
Far
Then
Film
Now
Started
When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.
Amy Lee
Time
Learning
School
Big
Took
Harp
High
High School
Bought
Taking
Like
Concert
Felt
Off
Which
Again
Really
Fun
Lessons
Started
After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb.
Amy Robach
Hair
Slowly
More
Comb
Surely
Sink
After
Notice
Regularly
Shower
Appear
Rounds
Started
Two
Drain
My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.
Amy Tan
Life
Me
Protection
Mother
New Life
Father
Three
Abandoned
Daughters
Volatile
Had
He
New
She
Terrible
Felt
Brain
Left
America
Died
Behind
Certainly
Started
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