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The John McCain I first started to get to know in earnest was the one who had just returned to the U.S. Senate after losing the 2000 Republican presidential primary.
Dana Bash
Losing
First
Earnest
Presidential
John
John McCain
Had
Primary
Know
Returned
Get
Senate
Just
McCain
After
Republican
Who
Started
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
Dana Carvey
Me
People
Laugh
About
Something
More
More People
He
Almost
Like
Know
Him
Gore
Makes
Sound
Doing
Exotic
Just
Just Something
Even
Al
Al Gore
Why
Started
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
Dana Carvey
Me
Parents
Recording
Television
Recorder
Voices
Winters
Jonathan
Stuff
Like
Got
Years
Tape
Tape Recorder
Off
Begging
Get
Craig
After
Little
Then
Started
I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.
Dana Loesch
Politics
First
Writer
Anonymously
Blogging
Began
Started
I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
Dane DeHaan
School
College
Year
High
High School
Remained
Through
Years
Going
Senior
Senior Year
Acting
Acting School
Four
Started
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
Danger Mouse
Music
You
Out
Something
Like
Making
Anything
Dorm
Room
Really
Producing
Started
I've already promised that I want to end my career where I started it, as a way of thanking those who gave me the chance to make my name in football. I want to have a spell there before I retire, but one that's enjoyable for me and for them, too.
Dani Alves
Me
Before
Too
Gave
Spell
Way
Those
Promised
Football
Retire
Name
Make
End
Thanking
Where
Want
Them
Who
Enjoyable
Started
Career
Chance
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
Dani Shapiro
Life
Me
Own
Running
About
Haunting
My Own
Through
Were
Realising
Themes
Really
Novels
Started
I got into the entertainment world and started modelling when I was 15. When I told my parents that was what I was going to do for a living, it was very shocking for them.
Dania Ramirez
Entertainment
World
Parents
Living
Entertainment World
Got
Very
Shocking
Modelling
Going
Them
Started
I ended up getting kicked out of my house when I was 16, and I went off to college. When they actually saw that I was getting some kind of stability as far as having a career in this business is when they started coming around.
Dania Ramirez
Business
College
Saw
Kicked
Out
Kind
Some
Having
House
Around
Coming
Off
Up
Ended
Stability
Getting
As Far As
Far
Actually
Started
Career
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
Danica McKellar
College
Feeling
Few
Took
Solving
Classes
Rush
Study
Like
Well
Equations
Got
Doing
Math
Brain
Intending
Them
Really
Film
Found
Started
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar
Seven
Later
Born
Angeles
Couple
Los
Los Angeles
Years
Diego
Moved
San
San Diego
Acting
Started
Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
Danica Patrick
Perspective
Looking
Become
Gone
Definitely
More
Since
Attractive
Well
NASCAR
Up
Going
Really
Companies
Helpful
Popularity
Things
Started
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
Daniel Alarcon
Writing
School
Language
Seriously
High
High School
Had
Sophisticated
Particularly
Domestic
Literary
Spanish
English
Disposal
Started
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
Daniel Boulud
Work
Art
Time
Food
Nothing
Pleasure
Andy
Andy Warhol
Could
Had
New
Because
Traded
His
Years
Years Ago
Get
York
Done
New York
Warhol
Should
Cook
Started
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
Daniel Breaker
Fear
Rejection
Way
Through
Steve
Doing
Impressions
Getting
Started
When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
Daniel Bryan
Me
School
Those
High
High School
Wrestling
Through
Had
Like
Matches
Were
Tapes
Getting
Order
Japanese
Each
Watch
Started
I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.
Daniel Bryan
Style
Teenager
More
Clean
Lifted
Weights
Towards
Since
Going
Which
Jerk
Ever
Started
Olympic
There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
Daniel Dae Kim
Me
Feedback
Stage
Energy
Immediate
About
Something
Having
Feeds
House
Because
Audience
Being
Informs
Choices
Acting
Started
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Me
Mother
Decision
Focus
Think
Finally
Relieved
Had
Make
Did
Just
Acting
Started
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
Daniel Ek
Music
Day
Technology
Band
Enough
One Day
Tried
Never
Had
Combine
Talented
Along
Make
Spotify
Came
Passions
Up
Decided
While
Companies
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Started
Two
But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.
Daniel Greenberg
Family
School
Other
Our
Way
Neither
Scenarios
Felt
Educational
Same
Children
Different
Wanted
Us
Worked
Founders
Started
If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.
Daniel Levitin
Time
You
Conversation
Book
Pay
Other
Projects
Distinct
Those
More
Attention
Maintained
Studying
Brain
Trying
Same
Listen
Same Time
Automatically
Separate
Paying
Less
Moment
Each
Started
Two
My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
Daniel Lubetzky
War
Family
Old
Ghetto
Located
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Born
He
Soon
Concentration
Were
His
Years
Camp
Germany
Sent
Separated
Europe
Dad
Started
Net-neutrality proponents howled when Comcast started throttling traffic from BitTorrent, a bandwidth-hogging program people use to swap video files. The Federal Communications Commission sided with the open-Internet folks, ruling that Comcast could not selectively choke off traffic.
Daniel Lyons
People
Ruling
Folks
Could
Federal
Traffic
Off
Commission
Swap
Video
Communications
Choke
Use
Files
Started
Program
In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Bible
Sports
School
Year
Before
Young
Group
Christian
Final
High
Rural
High School
Attending
Instead
Study
Missouri
Learn
Read
Camp
Began
Offer
Wanted
Afternoon
Elective
Who
Started
Chance
Christians
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