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Kobe Bryant was the reason I started playing basketball - always was and will be my favorite player of all time. I love the way he could get his shot off, his footwork down in the post, just his determination to be the best player.
Jayson Tatum
Love
Time
Best
Determination
Post
Will
Down
Way
Favorite
All-Time
Could
Bryant
He
Footwork
Kobe
Kobe Bryant
Always
His
Off
Get
Just
Shot
Reason
Player
Started
Playing
Basketball
I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
Jeff Dunham
Work
Character
Jokes
Will
Think
Out
Some
Write
Cheap
Idea
Come
Toy
Make
Sure
Material
Doll
Version
Up
Going
Just
Being
Store
Legs
Little
Then
Really
Plastic
Started
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'
Jeff Foxworthy
Me
You
People
First
Stupid
Lose
Out
Telling
Voice
Voice Lessons
New
Come
Like
Well
Accent
Got
South
Chicago
Get
York
Going
New York
Being
Where
Lessons
Started
Kept
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.
Jeff Kinney
Book
Writing
World
Tough
First
Style
Kid
Dream
Cartoonist
Cartoons
Born
Life-Long
Had
Always
How
Traditional
Mixed
Diary
Very
Wanted
Break
Newspaper
Fulfillment
Found
Started
Playing
This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.
Jerry Rice
Day
Me
Ran
One Day
Out
Run
Scared
Could
Football
Football Team
Come
Principal
How
Up
Walked
Behind
Wanted
Really
Coach
Noticed
Team
Fast
Started
Playing
When you look back at your body of work, no matter what your career path, by the time you hang 'em up, if you can say, 'This place is in better shape than when I started,' then you did good.
John Cena
Work
Time
Good
You
Better
Matter
Path
Back
Say
Shape
Better Shape
Look
Up
Than
Did
Hang
Place
Then
Body
Your
Your Body
Started
Career
Career Path
By The Time
The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.
John Madden
Best
History
You
Getting Older
Live
Older
About
More
Longer
Know
Knowing
Sport
Been
Getting
Where
Thing
Things
Started
I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
John Trudell
Day
Writing
World
Rage
One Day
Mad
Writer
Never
Like
Because
Than
Expected
Going
Just
Where
Different
Therapy
Different World
Ever
Started
Position
I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.
Johnny Cash
Time
Good
Black
Beginning
Clothes
Wearing
Onstage
Almost
Feel
Like
Looked
Attractive
Comfortable
Felt
Started
When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure.
Josh Tillman
Life
Music
Looking
Pain
Live
Ensure
Constant
Boredom
Foolproof
Never
Had
Exemption
Up
Wanted
Grew
Leisure
Started
Amusement
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
Judith Wright
Myself
Feelings
Rather
More
Habits
Learned
Limiting
Than
Them
Avoiding
Aware
Started
Numb
I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal.
Julia Cameron
Music
Art
You
Creative
Creativity
Mother
Parents
Fall
Think
Enough
Back
Our
Though
Relentlessly
Something
Given
Never
Supplies
Knew
Household
Call
Said
Were
Normal
Up
Get
Grew
Might
Then
Us
Acted
Stand
Meddle
Started
Need
The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.
Justin Bieber
Crazy
Girl
Building
Before
Garbage
Hid
Some
Pretty
Guys
Week
Could
Truck
Stuff
Climbed
Due
Sneak
Germany
Done
Getting
Straight
Them
Working
Show
Found
Away
Four
Started
Last
Night
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
Justin Bieber
Time
People
Competition
Seriously
Three
Singing
Too
Other
Local
Entered
Would
About
Vocal
Only
Had
Taking
House
Sing
Singing Lessons
Around
Got
Idol
Been
Years
Years Ago
Just
Place
Coaches
Lessons
Stratford
Second
Started
Second Place
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when I was five years old. I have no idea what it was about, but I do remember spending considerable time trying to get the title right, though this had more to do with crayon colour than scansion.
Justine Larbalestier
Sad
Time
Writing
Remember
Old
First
Considerable
Spending
Those
Though
No Idea
About
Cases
More
Writer
Colour
Never
Had
Idea
Years
Five
Than
Get
Trying
Wanted
Anything
Title
Novel
Right
Started
Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
Kareena Kapoor Khan
War
Women
World
Finished
Shoes
Interview
Once
Bit
Magazine
More
Only
Knew
Bag
Bags
Between
Look
Said
Than
Shoe
Just
Difference
Ladies
Body
Meant
Your
Among
Started
World War
World War III
When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.
Kim Raver
Time
Son
Husband
Swimming
Spend
Kid
Running
Firefighters
Lifting
Knew
Mainly
Doing
Yoga
Same
Going
Just
Same Time
Want
Then
Now
Watch
Started
Third
The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.
Lesley Gore
Truth
Day
Me
Truth Is
Down
Lesson
Those
One Day
Record
Some
Vocal
Through
Piano
Piano Player
He
Studio
Put
Instead
Taking
New
Got
Demos
York
Listened
Short
New York
Short Story
Story
Them
Agent
Lessons
Player
Here
Started
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
Lindsay Fox
School
Father
Melbourne
Mine
Honour
High
Carved
High School
Driver
Truck
Truck Driver
Name
Disaster
Academically
Got
Cousin
His
Where
Board
Started
Desk
I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
Lou Henry Hoover
Me
Father
Thought
Girl
Sorry
Before
Other
Took
Hunting
More
Could
Had
Learned
Always
Years
Fishing
Years Ago
Camping
Scout
Movement
Wanted
Then
Here
Started
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
Martin Rees
Nature
History
Invention
Earthquakes
Worst
Entered
Weapons
Threats
Over
Come
Perhaps
Most
Geological
Era
Disease
Forth
Us
Now
Floods
Started
You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.
Michael Cunningham
Great
You
Book
Dark
Will
Fire
Other
Penetrating
Shame
Vast
Bubble
Written
Put
Head
Towards
Contains
Over
Cathedral
End
Begin
Get
Just
Realise
Then
Your
Full
Novel
Novels
Bright
Ever
Started
When I was young, you went to school, dealt with your friends and drama, went home, did your homework, went to bed, and started over the next day. But that social interaction that happens at school doesn't end now - it goes until the minute you go to bed and starts again when you wake up.
Michael Imperioli
Day
Home
You
School
Wake Up
Young
Homework
Starts
Drama
Minute
Over
Until
Bed
Dealt
Go
Wake
End
Up
Friends
Did
Goes
Interaction
Happens
Again
Social
Next
Social Interaction
Your
Now
Started
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.
Moby
Music
Guitar
Old
Unlearn
Punk
Jazz
Took
Nine
Everything
Punk Rock
Guitar Lessons
Tried
Classical
Classical Guitar
Classical Music
Could
Had
Studied
Learned
Around
Rock
Rock Bands
Years
Discovered
Bands
While
Then
Theory
Lessons
Play
Played
Fourteen
Started
Playing
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.
Mohsin Hamid
Loneliness
You
People
Sense
Cities
Find
Leave
Huge
Move
Human
Where
Hard
Connection
Villages
Away
Started
If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.
Morris Gleitzman
Care
Beneath
Characters
About
Only
Because
Surface
Caught
Up
Get
Moved
Happen
Story
Started
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