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As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.
Belinda Johnson
Months
See
Pretty
Knows
Any
Common
Anyone
Who
Company
Income
Started
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.
Bella Heathcote
School
Old
Singing
Drama
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Dancing
Out
Taking
Dropped
Over
Doing
Private
Were
Years
Friends
Did
Going
Just
Loved
Little
Then
Lessons
Started
Kept
Speech
I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.
Bellamy Young
Mom
Opportunity
Looking
Singing
Mountains
Herself
Dancing
Carolina
About
Outlets
Could
Perform
Soon
She
North
North Carolina
Any
Just
Where
After
Started
I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.
Ben Affleck
Technology
Editing
Building
Down
Systems
Would
Angeles
Cheap
Driving
New
Voyage
Edit
Got
Auditions
Los
Los Angeles
Led
Friend
Child
York
New York
Wanted
Which
Moving
Acting
Special
Series
Film
Actor
Started
After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
Ben Affleck
Seen
Think
Else
Would
Something
Something Else
Doing
Camera
Front
Stop
Want
Wanted
After
Frustrated
Realize
Acting
Started
My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.
Ben Askren
Changed
Wrestling
Since
Doing
Lot
Really
View
Started
When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.
Ben Dolnick
Environmental
Good
Animal
Assumed
Harmless
Bit
Worst
Correspond
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Eating
Good Reason
Both
Pigs
Chickens
Effects
Cows
Irresponsibility
Size
Less
Reason
Researching
Meat
Started
Basically
If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
Ben E. King
Love
Time
Business
Happy
Met
Extremely
Entertainers
Some
About
Greatest
Still
Anything
Here
Started
Career
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
Ben Folds
Saying
Myself
Heavy Metal
Joke
Big
Band
White
Pain
Broke
Rant
Gigs
Some
Feel
Like
Metal
Am
End
Five
Scream
Heavy
Used
Found
Thing
Things
Started
Ben
There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study class once a week. It was started by Charles Bernard and myself. We meet at the theater.
Ben Harney
Myself
Class
Bible
People
Other
Meet
Once
Once A Week
Bernard
Charles
Born-Again
Week
Study
Theater
Who
Started
Christians
I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.
Ben Horowitz
Great
People
Important
Important Things
Think
Easier
Entrepreneurship
Great Thing
Still
Lot
Begin
Trying
Getting
Just
Much
Really
Company
Harder
Thing
Things
Started
Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.
Ben Linder
Needs
You
Tool
Pick
Up
Get
Done
Anything
Choice
Your
Started
The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Love
School
Lost
Books
Kid
About
Football
Read
Became
Boy
Got
Cover
Just
Stories
Soccer
Mean
To Love
Them
Then
Used
Who
Captain
Play
Play Football
Started
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
Ben Marcus
Writing
Fear
Emotional
Emotional Level
Had
Come
Very
Autobiographical
Anything
Realise
Level
Started
It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.
Ben Mendelsohn
Good
People
Beginning
Assumption
More
Like
Got
Lot
Up
Being
Ends
Room
Really
Novel
Nuance
Started
It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
Ben Miller
Physics
School
Year
Only
School Plays
Bands
Person
Anything
Acting
Cool
Thing
Second
Started
Plays
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
Ben Okri
Change
Writing
Stress
Made
Long
Other
Syndrome
Later
Collapsed
Out
Born
Wrist
Had
Road
Prose
Wrote
Got
Came
Hand
Left
Left-Handed
Repetitive
Very
Which
Use
Using
Right
Started
President Obama started in public life not as an elected official but as a community organizer. He worked with churches and other groups on the south side of Chicago to push public leaders to fight poverty, improve the local school system and make housing more affordable, and to bring about the change the community needed and deserved.
Ben Rhodes
Life
Change
Fight
School
Poverty
Community
Other
President
Side
Local
President Obama
Local School
Churches
System
Obama
About
More
Push
He
Leaders
School System
Make
Housing
South
Chicago
South Side
Improve
Affordable
Official
Public
Elected
Worked
Public Life
Organizer
Groups
Deserved
Bring
Started
Needed
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Ben Stein
Overcome
Fail
Because
Inertia
Go
Begin
Get
Many
Started
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
Benjamin Booker
Music
Me
Writing
Vision
First
Before
Stage
Aggressive
Batch
Type
Saw
Melodies
Guitars
Take
Had
Knew
Soon
Over
Make
Sound
Heard
Blues
Want
Wanted
Certain
Ever
Started
Playing
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
Benjamin Booker
Music
Class
Writing
School
Punk
Before
Folk
Week
Town
Wrote
Because
Lot
Huge
Did
Then
Shows
Twice
Twice A Week
Actually
Started
Playing
When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
Benjamin Clementine
Music
Money
First
Singing
Style
Own
Jimi Hendrix
Marley
Out
Eat
Some
Horrible
My Own
Paris
Songs
Wrote
Came
Get
Just
Dylan
Place
Bob
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Hendrix
Eventually
Started
I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing, for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired every day.
Benjamin Clementine
Day
Every Day
Writing
Lonely
Example
Big
Every
Relaxed
Cities
Small
Fact
Inspired
Write
Contained
New
Like
For Example
Know
Comfortable
Felt
Buildings
Been
Lot
Huge
Very
York
Snowing
Quite
New York
In Fact
Happens
Started
When I lived in Paris, I would shop at antique shops and buy these huge coats because I was very cold. And then I started performing in them because I felt safe. I never stopped doing that.
Benjamin Clementine
Buy
Cold
Would
Paris
Never
Performing
Safe
Because
Felt
Doing
Huge
Very
Antique
Shop
Shops
Stopped
Them
Then
Coats
Lived
Started
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
Benjamin Clementine
Writing
Money
Guitar
First
Singing
Saved
Eat
Songs
Up
Survive
Get
Just
Wanted
To Survive
Cappella
Bars
Started
I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear. But when I sat down to play the piano, the very new shoes kept slipping off the pedal. So I took them off, threw them away, and have never worn shoes while playing the piano from then on.
Benjamin Clementine
Me
Shoes
Clothes
Down
Gave
Took
Worn
Slipping
Wear
Some
Threw
Piano
Never
New
French
Well
Off
Very
Going
Literally
While
Them
Then
Sat
Away
Nowhere
Play
Things
Designer
Started
Playing
Kept
Pedal
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