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I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
Brendan Gleeson
Music
Old
Country
Resonance
About
Had
Particular
Around
Years
Irish
Found
Played
Started
I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
Brendan I. Koerner
People
Looking
Back
Once
About
Hijacking
Know
Cuba
How
Were
Motives
Blown
Blown Away
Going
Often
Common
Happened
Planes
Then
Much
Used
Aware
Away
Started
Vaguely
I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.
Brendan Rodgers
Great
Me
Patience
Reading
Lost
Club
Enough
Project
Backing
Though
Three-Year
Guy
More
Sack
Had
Pick
Knew
Got
Up
Than
Just
Anyone
After
Full
Games
Who
Even
Chairman
Started
My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
Brent Sexton
Day
Engineer
Job
Thinking
Nine
Brother
Hours
Well
Aerospace
His
What If
Being
Worked
Who
Works
Actor
Started
I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.
Bresha Webb
Women
King
Drama
Tyson
Admire
Davis
Industry
Hall
Off
Many
Viola
Started
I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn't have a clue what they were doing.
Bret Hart
Day
Run
Only
Could
Idiots
Doing
Were
Bunch
Frustrated
Clue
Realized
Company
Right
Started
I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.
Brett Eldredge
Myself
Song
Singing
Winged
Both
Onstage
Bryan
He
Just
Rehearsed
Luke
Started
It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.
Brett Young
Writing
Down
Paper
Put
Always
Helpful
Why
Things
Started
I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.
Brett Young
You
Focus
Immediately
Would
Writer
Knew
Town
Always
Nashville
Demos
Artist
Move
Pitching
Moved
Asked
Here
Started
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.
Brian Acton
Mom
Family
Me
History
Degree
Bit
Risk-Taking
Entrepreneurial
Course
Built
Off
Family History
Maybe
Golf
Golf Course
Little
Little Bit
Grandmother
Certain
Certain Degree
Company
Eventually
Started
We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
Brian Austin Green
Burden
Too Much
Become
Down
Too
Everybody
Our
Finally
Our Lives
Ourselves
Give
Given
Had
How
How Much
Just
Wanted
Little
Asked
Much
Sat
Lives
Started
I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.
Brian Austin Green
Crazy
Own
Holding
Considered
Promoting
My Own
Stuff
Doing
Normal
Lot
Clubs
Younger
Crazy Things
Things
Started
I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.
Brian Baumgartner
Love
Game
Charity
Events
Party
Circuit
Athletes
Angeles
Scene
Invited
Fell
Became
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Lot
Office
Getting
Just
Moved
Golf
Really
Successful
Played
Started
When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.
Brian Chesky
People
Meet
Airbnb
Would
No Idea
About
Had
Idea
Make
Friendships
Started
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno
Me
Rest
Own
Background
Out
My Own
Records
Had
Putting
Idea
Drowning
Singer
Foreground
Making
Interested
Started
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
Brian Eno
Music
You
Once
Kind
Would
Record
Finish
Put
Like
Ideas
Making
Endless
Which
While
Working
Flirting
Play
Started
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
Brian Eno
Music
First
Sense
Composers
Could
Idea
Like
Make
Got
Terry
Heard
Tape
Itself
Mid
Interested
Really
Started
Playing
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.
Brian Eno
You
Technology
People
Thought
Think
Way
Characteristic
Since
Sort
Always
Doing
Interested
Worked
Ever
Started
When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.
Brian Fallon
First
Think
Alright
Learned
First Thing
The First Thing
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Twice
Thing
Started
I had always enjoyed playing characters and dressing up, but it wasn't until I got to school and I started getting on stage for plays that I got the bug.
Brian Gleeson
School
Stage
Characters
Dressing
Had
Until
Bug
Always
Got
Up
Getting
Enjoyed
Started
Playing
Plays
When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.
Brian Grazer
Myself
Good
Me
Entertainment
Business
People
World
Challenge
Job
Thought
Made
First
Meet
Out
Would
Would-Be
Entertainment Business
About
Give
Shake
Something
Give Me
Could
Ideas
Deal
Up
List
Teach
Who
Started
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
Brian J. White
Myself
Character
Man
Challenges
Decision
Challenge
Made
Same Thing
Mediums
Find
Embrace
Push
Leading
Leading Man
New
Read
Same
Want
Wanted
Again
Acting
Unique
Conscious
Thing
Conscious Decision
Started
I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.
Brian K. Vaughan
Journey
My Journey
Guess
Batman
Abandoned
Spider-Man
Superhero
Never
Mainstream
Stuff
Like
Comics
Off
Began
Which
Started
I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.
Brian Kemp
Business
Own
Others
My Own
Invested
Been
Years
Person
Business Person
Companies
Started
You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.
Brian Kilmeade
You
Nothing
Say
He
Mitt
Mitt Romney
His
Get
Romney
Inheritance
Dad
Started
My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.
Brian Krzanich
Family
Survival
Cancer
Wife
Rare
Lost
Participate
His
Friend
Form
Cycle
Who
Started
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