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There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.
Autre Ne Veut
Life
Time
Good
You
School
My Life
Half
Band
Every
Relationships
Kid
High
High School
Magic
Town
Like
Know
Built
Were
Bands
Where
Them
Based
Started
Careers
I started singing the second I could utter sound.
Autre Ne Veut
Singing
Could
Sound
Utter
Second
Started
I'm a DJ. I get the party started.
Avicii
Party
Get
Started
Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.
Awkwafina
Saying
Me
You
Culture
People
Black
Minds
Rap
Wrap
Someone
Inspired
Thus
Like
Around
Always
Listen
Being
Cannot
Us
Foundation
Things
Started
I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my friends. It started like that, and then it went into more music-y stuff.
Awkwafina
Me
Othello
Reciting
Those
More
Stuff
Like
Friends
Send
Then
Started
Monologues
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
Ayad Akhtar
Work
Art
Me
Creative
World
Feeling
Expectation
Way
Respond
Kind
Inside
Some
About
Constraints
Excited
Longer
Industry
Self-Expression
Understand
Audience
Making
Should
Engagement
Avoid
Thing
Started
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
Ayad Akhtar
Denial
About
Someone
Something
Writer
Also
Trying
Personal
Personal Level
Realise
Avoiding
Who
Level
Early
Started
I started preparing meals for my family when I was 12 because both of my parents worked, but I didn't know that it was something I could make a career out of until I had my daughter and realized there were people out there who were interested in learning how to prepare a quick meal.
Ayesha Curry
Family
Learning
People
Parents
Daughter
Meal
Out
Something
Both
Could
Had
Know
Until
Make
Because
How
Were
Quick
Interested
Meals
Realized
Worked
Who
Prepare
Preparing
Started
Career
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.
Ayobami Adebayo
Me
Thought
Complete
Would
Stay
Take
Years
Working
Novel
Started
Two
I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.
Azzedine Alaia
Made
Own
Inside
Shape
Had
Clients
Materials
Private
Years
Just
Them
Then
Used
Using
Garments
Started
Stretch
In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.
Azzedine Alaia
You
People
Touch
Knew
Very
Modelling
Hard
Keep
Started
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
B. B. King
Music
Time
Me
People
Mother
Church
Gospel Music
Few
Others
Records
Johnson
Take
Had
Bought
Like
Liked
Robert
Robert Johnson
Blind
Gospel
Aunt
Listen
Blues
Lemon
Used
Who
Jefferson
Started
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
B. B. King
First
Jockey
Memphis
Tennessee
Trying
Quite
Disk
Used
Professional
Popular
Play
Started
I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
B. D. Wong
Home
Theatre
Money
Few
Live
Saved
Ran
Months
OK
Out
Jobs
Would
Give
Could
Had
New
Got
Equity
Doing
Odd
Go
Odd Jobs
Go Home
Lot
Up
York
New York
Golden
Fields
Chip
Turned
Chocolate
Working
Cookies
Card
Started
Gate
I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'
BJ the Chicago Kid
Music
Saying
Time
Singing
Backgrounds
OK
Mary
Hamilton
West
Scott
Get
Confessions
Again
Then
Working
Kanye
Kanye West
Usher
Started
Last
Kept
Last Time
'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
Bailey Chase
Work
Me
Opportunity
Before
Rose
Byrne
Back
Brought
About
Excited
Glenn
Glenn Close
New
Obviously
Been
Lot
Very
Close
York
New York
Fan
While
Little
Working
Show
Little While
Cool
Fun
Started
Damages
I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.
Bailey Chase
Spiritual
Youth
Path
Church
College
Own
Group
Other
Other Kids
Philosophies
Kid
Kids
Out
Kinda
Finding
Religious
Trip
Spiritual Path
My Own
Since
Until
Well
Got
Been
Whatnot
Going
Anything
Social
Then
Much
Thing
Things
Started
I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music.
Bakermat
Music
Looking
YouTube
Make
Always
Whole
Started
Career
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
Baltasar Kormakur
Good
Great
Business
People
Pretty
Brutal
Had
Also
Educated
Educated People
Were
Very
Boats
Who
Businessmen
Why
Started
I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
Baltasar Kormakur
Work
Me
Musicians
Director
Woman
First
Country
Others
Spell
Broke
Abroad
Could
Glad
Opened
Like
She
Did
Behind
Door
Break
Movies
Us
Working
Who
Barrier
Now
Started
Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.
Bar Refaeli
Fashion
Old
Seriously
Cute
Took
Teeth
Months
Kids
More
Ads
Had
Stuff
Since
Till
Doing
Braces
Off
Modeling
Commercials
Did
Little
Them
Then
Started
The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
Bar Refaeli
Best
Year
Had
Been
Ever
Started
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran
Work
Myself
Me
Business
Age
Three
Before
Jobs
Telling
Boss
More
Had
Simply
Well
Because
Motivated
Want
Wanted
Twenty
Started
Two
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Business
People
Goals
Employees
Research
Group
Assurance
Late
Later
Further
Out
Cost
Percent
Only
Major
Employment
Reduction
Continue
Decade
Form
Loyal
Who
Companies
Company
Agreed
Found
Deserve
Started
I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
Barbara Palvin
Love
People
Too
Other
Learned
Doing
Lot
Modelling
Actually
Things
Started
I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
Barbara Rosenblat
Life
Time
Me
World
My Life
First
Kid
Recognized
Booth
Someone
First Time
Got
Handed
Cone
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Disney
Acting
Tweeting
Started
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