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When I just started my career, of course, I always try to look very good, and I changes the dress all the time on the performance. And people came to me and said, 'Oh, beautiful dress. Your dress is so beautiful, and you look so beautiful.' That's it. And I was so upset nobody saying anything about my singing.
Anna Netrebko
Beautiful
Saying
Time
Good
Me
You
People
Try
Singing
Changes
Dress
About
Performance
Nobody
Look
Course
Said
Always
Came
Very
Oh
Just
Upset
Anything
Your
Started
Career
When I started in the business years ago, people would always say, 'You better get as much work as you can now, because once you get over 40, it's over.'
Anna Silk
Work
You
Business
People
Better
Once
Say
Would
Over
Because
Always
Years
Years Ago
Get
Much
Now
Started
The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
Annalee Newitz
People
Myth
Young
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Nest
Never
Return
Leave
American
Young People
Iconic
Should
Started
I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.
Annaleigh Ashford
Birthday
Family
Live
Gatherings
Seven
Performing
Parties
Real
Doing
Impressions
Then
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Four
Started
Night
When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.
Anne-Marie
Sad
Writing
Slow
First
Emotional
Songs
Wrote
Were
Which
Really
Started
I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.
Anne-Marie
You
School
Parents
Singing
Seven
Musical
Kind
Properly
Performing
Performing Arts
Like
Sing
Got
Audition
Were
West
End
Oh
Arts
Les
Les Miserables
Started
I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.
Anne-Marie
Theatre
Musical
Way
Musical Theatre
More
Voice
Could
Like
Doing
Current
Realising
Then
Use
Started
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
Anne Burrell
Business
Age
Happy
People
Restaurant
Restaurant Business
Atmosphere
Having
Making
Camaraderie
Go
Waitress
Office
Loved
Started
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
Anne Carson
Life
Teacher
Me
School
My Life
Accident
Year
Lunch
Way
High
High School
Main
Knew
Main Thing
Hour
She
Learn
Because
Greek
Offered
Did
Informal
Then
Teach
Thing
Started
Last
University
Last Year
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
Anne Graham Lotz
God
Class
Bible
Result
Old
Desperate
Months
City
Purpose
Through
Primary
Know
Felt
Were
Get
Just
Being
Children
Pages
Started
Need
I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.
Anne M. Mulcahy
Best
Good
Me
Degree
Nine
Nine Months
Months
Spent
Magazine
Cosmopolitan
Journalism
Got
Doing
Six
Anyway
Place
Which
Started
My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
Annette Bening
Life
Business
Secretary
Life Insurance
About
Learned
Because
Insurance
Selling
Working
Dad
Started
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
Annette Bening
Great
Women
Shakespeare
Chekhov
Roles
Theater
Created
Started
Plays
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
Annie Dillard
Pure
Extravagant
Books
Out
Up
Ended
Plain
Started
I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.
Annie Jacobsen
Today
CIA
Examined
Force
Because
Still
Lot
Huge
America
Going
Which
Full
Certainly
Fascinating
Files
Started
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.
Annie Leibovitz
Thought
Important
Point
Point Of View
True
Journalism
Became
Doing
Very
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Maybe
Interested
Working
View
Started
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
Annie Leibovitz
Thought
Journalism
Became
Doing
Very
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Maybe
Interested
Working
Started
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
Annie Leibovitz
Photography
Money
First
Frank
Photograph
Collection
Some
Small
Bought
Soon
Robert
Make
Huge
Very
Huge Fan
Fan
Then
Started
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
Annie Lennox
Great
Me
Motherhood
Everybody
Identify
Started
When I started out in the industry, I felt the need to say 'yes' to everything. You wanted to be an actor, so you took acting jobs.
Annie Murphy
You
Took
Everything
Say
Out
Jobs
Industry
Felt
Yes
Wanted
Acting
Actor
Started
Need
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
Anthony Browne
Details
Only
Small
Brush
Over
Years
Little
Much
Really
Use
Larger
Started
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
Anthony Doerr
Work
Out
Magazines
Until
Sending
Work Out
Started
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.
Anthony Edwards
Me
School
Year
Same Thing
License
Angeles
My Friend
Driver
Had
Driving
Along
Got
Auditioning
Doing
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Eric
Friend
Commercials
Did
Same
Manager
Theater
Then
Who
Thing
Things
Started
Tons
I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'
Anthony Edwards
Time
Great
Experience
Old
Wife
Live
Incredible
Spent
Kids
Had
New
Like
Also
Make
Priority
Go
Years
Lot
Left
York
Just
New York
Eight
While
Working
Company
Four
Started
By The Time
I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.
Anthony Gonzalez
Guitar
Old
Bit
Piano
Since
Been
Years
Up
Decided
Then
Switch
Viola
Started
Playing
Violin
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
Anthony Horowitz
Age
Happy
Remember
Vividly
Writer
Loser
Get
Stopped
Being
Started
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