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I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
Georgia Holt
Country
Singing
Would
Angeles
Tend
Toward
Los
Los Angeles
Blues
Sang
Radio
Started
I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.
Geraint Thomas
Love
Home
Out
More
Roads
Mates
South
Up
Wales
Than
Just
Where
Grew
Bike
Who
Riding
Started
I rode for Maindy Flyers, a local kids' club from Cardiff. We started travelling across the country doing races, but Manchester was the first stage race I did.
Geraint Thomas
First
Country
Stage
Club
Local
Flyers
Kids
Doing
Rode
Did
Manchester
Race
Races
Across
Travelling
Started
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
Gerard Butler
First
Singing
Windows
Voice
Point
Had
Taking
Come
Shatter
Know
Singing Lessons
Surprised
Where
After
Mean
Really
Lessons
Started
Session
Third
I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.
Gerry Cooney
Life
Education
You
Old
Job
Men
Few
Young
Corner
Market
Someone
Guys
Bucks
Retired
Also
Boxing
Leave
Lot
Getting
Just
Getting Started
Skills
Marbles
Early
Started
Need
When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.
Gerry Cooney
School
Three
First
Nights
Finals
Kids
High
Ring
John
High School
Give
Gym
Week
Recreation
Put
Box
Gloves
Trained
Junior
Junior High
Junior High School
Just
Golden
Us
Used
Even
Floor
Four
Started
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Gerry Mulligan
Way
Out
Baritone
Player
Started
I share a lot more than I ever really thought I would with friends, let alone millions of people, and it really started surface level for me: beauty, fashion, lifestyle, whatever.
Gigi Gorgeous
Alone
Fashion
Me
People
Thought
Beauty
Whatever
Would
More
Lifestyle
Share
Surface
Lot
Friends
Than
Really
Ever
Level
Started
Millions
Millions Of People
I will be the first to say, when I started, I was the worst on the runway ever. I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway; I try to get better with each one. I hope that I'm getting better as I go - it takes a few seasons to get your Karlie Kloss walk on.
Gigi Hadid
Hope
Time
Learning
Better
Walk
Try
Will
First
Few
Every
Every Time
Say
Worst
Runway
Be The First
Step
Takes
Feel
Like
Go
Off
Get
Getting
Getting Better
Your
Each
Keep
Each One
Ever
Seasons
Started
I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.
Gigi Hadid
Sports
School
Old
Focus
Baby
Took
Guess
Kid
Kids
High
High School
About
School Years
Years
Off
Modeling
Did
Middle
Elementary
Extent
Started
Career
When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups - but I didn't know much. I couldn't tell the good ones from the bad; I didn't understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.
Gil Penchina
Good
Angel
First
Blindly
Startups
Tell
Bad
Would
Good Ones
Somewhat
Invest
Investing
Excited
Investor
Know
Terms
Venture
Venture Capital
Understand
Capital
Much
Start
Started
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
Gilbert Gottfried
Age
Old
Young
Old Age
Too
Consider
Say
Ripe
Had
She
Because
Still
Died
Which
Little
Turn
Lived
Started
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.
Gilbert Hernandez
Own
Our
Out
Superhero
Putting
Liked
Still
Comics
Doing
Were
Experiences
Grew
Stories
Started
Amusement
When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work.
Giles Duley
Work
Music
Fashion
Photography
Care
Feeling
Gave
Photographer
Something
Had
Missing
Always
Doing
Up
Walked
Worked
Skills
Productively
Using
Away
Started
Booking.com started with just a website, but we've always thought of our company as being more than just a website.
Gillian Tans
Website
Thought
Our
More
Always
Than
Just
Being
Company
Started
I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.
Gin Wigmore
Great
Me
People
World
Met
Way
Some
About
More
Great People
Write
Since
Along
Around
Got
Lot
Lots
Taught
Lived
Things
Started
Playing
I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.
Gin Wigmore
Listening
Musicals
Favourite
John
About
Simon
David
Discovered
Huge
Denver
Listened
Loved
Then
Les
Les Miserables
Gray
Started
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.
Gin Wigmore
Man
Business
Writing
Emotions
World
Down
Every
Guarded
State
Chap
Harry
Hiding
Out
Charlie
Wrestle
Fingers
Raw
Named
Callous
Around
Tightly
Got
Wore
Bob
Grit
Who
Tom
Including
Bring
Started
Plays
Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.
Gina Barreca
Work
Health
Good
Relationship
Master
Bad
City
Seeking
Guy
Dates
Except
Could
Counselor
Never
Almost
New
Like
Health Insurance
Match
Insurance
Were
Years
Years Ago
Lousy
York
New York
New York City
Being
Social
Bill
Help
Company
Social Work
Actually
Started
I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'
Gina Bellman
Teacher
Age
Theatre
Brilliant
National
Drama
Crucible
Had
Because
National Theatre
Being
Lessons
Appeared
Teased
Started
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
Gina Carano
Art
Me
Fighting
Think
Having
Had
Since
Cameras
Situations
Used
Started
Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.
Ginger Zee
Myself
Health
News
Mental Health
Job
Before
ABC
Mental
Ten
Hospital
Checked
Days
Started
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.
Ginni Rometty
Work
Day
Every Day
Car
Brazil
Energy
Every
Think
Programs
Everything
Markets
Cities
India
Adoption
Developing
Mass
New
Major
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Enable
Reduce
Accommodate
Get
Tiny
Africa
Pollution
Congestion
Electric
Electric Cars
Help
Businesses
Helping
Started
I started to take care of my body after I turned 50. I never liked how I looked physically because I was too cute, short, with coloring only on my cheeks, the perfect little nose, and then the blue eyes. I was a hit with girls, who told me it was like I was in Technicolor.
Giorgio Armani
Me
Eyes
Care
Girl
Cute
Too
Only
Physically
Perfect
Coloring
Take
Never
Take Care
Like
Liked
Cheeks
Looked
Because
How
Hit
Blue
Blue Eyes
Short
Nose
After
Little
Turned
Then
Body
Who
Started
When I started Giorgio Armani in the mid-'70s, I realized that women needed a way to dress that was equivalent to that of men - something that would give them dignity, an attitude that would help them handle their work life.
Giorgio Armani
Life
Work
Attitude
Dignity
Women
Men
Way
Would
Dress
Give
Something
Armani
Equivalent
Handle
Them
Realized
Help
Started
Needed
My work today is perceived as being classic, but when I first started out, it was a break from the norm. Since then, I have continued to reinvent myself. I don't change my style, but I allow it to evolve.
Giorgio Armani
Work
Today
Myself
Change
First
Style
Out
Evolve
Classic
Perceived
Allow
Since
Continue
Norm
Being
Break
Then
Reinvent
Started
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