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When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
Faith
People
Writing
First
Feeling
Write
Come
Also
Were
Been
Historically
Going
Represent
Childhood
Wanted
Stories
Story
Literature
Frustrated
Who
Started
Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.
Jacquelyn Jablonski
Country
Before
Few
Once
Month
Once A Week
Out
Week
Never
Had
Feel
Like
Least
Been
Times
Modeling
Now
Started
Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn't skate backwards, one couldn't turn to his left, one couldn't turn to his right, and the fourth couldn't pass the puck accurately to our blue line. Somebody had to clear the loose pucks, so I started doing it myself.
Jacques Plante
Myself
Backwards
Somebody
Our
Had
Clear
Loose
Pass
Doing
Line
His
Left
Accurately
Blue
Skate
Turn
Flaws
Right
Four
Puck
Started
Fourth
I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery.
Jacques Torres
Home
Cooking
Old
Parents
Apprenticeship
Would
Had
Bakery
Make
Around
Years
Started
As a kid, when I was living in America, I started using those Noxzema wipes that just felt like you removed half your face. I quite like that tingly sensation.
Jade Jagger
You
Face
Half
Living
Kid
Those
Like
Felt
America
Quite
Just
Sensation
Your
Using
Started
I think you have to remember that the people that are really muscly and toned at the gym started somewhere. You have to remember that they didn't always look like that, so when you're in there, don't look at them and feel intimidated.
Jade Thirlwall
You
People
Remember
Somewhere
Think
Intimidated
Gym
Feel
Like
Look
Always
Them
Really
Toned
Started
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.
Jaden Smith
Song
Girl
Dropped
Over
Leaf
New
Room
Then
Turning
Really
Used
Starry
Started
Honest
Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That's when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.
Jahlil Okafor
Love
Me
Game
Father
Seventh
Those
Introduced
All-Around
Guys
Fell
Him
Around
Tim
Were
His
Modeled
Grade
Sixth
After
Then
Started
Watching
Two
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
Jaime King
Strength
Training
First
Would
Athletic
Know
Because
Always
Doing
Bulletproof
Been
Done
Which
Much
Really
Required
Helped
Base
Monk
Started
When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.
Jain
Music
Class
Nine
Saw
Drum
Making
Passing
Moved
Them
Why
Started
Playing
I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.
Jain
Living
Write
Songs
Congo
Started
At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, so I started to write songs in the Congo, and I think that's why my music is quite open, with a lot of different influences.
Jain
Music
Time
Myself
You
Living
Think
Teenage
Way
Find
Write
Open
Songs
Know
Lot
Quite
Different
Influences
Wanted
Really
Congo
Your
Express
Why
Started
My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.
Jake Halpern
Strange
Mother
Internet
Extremely
Collector
Poking
Over
She
Calls
Because
Around
Surprised
Debt
Very
Owe
Just
Stop
Common
Being
Wanted
Paid
Found
Eventually
Started
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.
Jake Johnson
Enthusiasm
National
One Line
Independents
Slowly
About
David
Part
Like
Parts
Got
Line
Up
Curb
Commercials
Did
Getting
Movie
Bigger
Little
Grinding
Then
Noticed
Your
Show
Unit
Things
Liz
Started
Kept
I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.
Jake Kasdan
Experience
Become
Young
Every
Way
Ways
Freaks
Geeks
Some
Something
Feel
Like
Another
Lot
Informed
Really
Working
Extension
Started
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
Jake Owen
Music
Myself
Class
Guitar
Listening
Country
Classic
Totally
Had
Songs
Haggard
Merle Haggard
Always
Up
Getting
Going
Grew
Loved
Teaching
Dad
Started
Playing
Kept
'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result.
Jake Paul
Me
Creativity
Song
Result
Everyday
Bro
Unleashed
About
Day-To-Day
Talking
Things
Started
Basis
We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos.
Jake Paul
Love
Videos
Recording
Whatever
YouTube
Our
Out
About
Stuff
Like
Fell
House
Around
Doing
Dumb
Going
Then
Found
Started
I started on Vine because it was such an engaging platform that was the most popular at the time. It came natural to me, and I understood the type of content I needed to make on it so that people could enjoy it. I knew it was a great start, but I had to spread my wings and create something that would last forever - a career.
Jake Paul
Time
Great
Me
Natural
People
Enjoy
Type
Would
Something
Wings
Could
Had
Knew
Most
Make
Content
Because
Spread
Understood
Came
Forever
Create
Engaging
Popular
Platform
Vine
Start
Started
Last
Career
Needed
I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.
Jake Paul
School
Finished
Year
Meeting
Out
High
Angeles
High School
Hustling
Could
Between
Know
Got
Los
Los Angeles
Junior
Junior Year
Manager
Just
Difference
Anyone
Agent
Flew
Here
Started
I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.
Jake Shears
Life
Writing
Thought
My Life
All My Life
Write
Songs
Until
Wrote
Always
Going
Fiction
Loved
Started
Since I'm homeschooled, I don't get much kid interaction, so I started at this gym and I got to meet other kids. I actually met one of my best friends there; we hang out all the time.
Jake Short
Time
Best
Met
Other
Other Kids
Meet
Kid
Kids
Out
Gym
Since
Got
Friends
Get
Hang
Interaction
Much
Actually
Started
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing.
Jake T. Austin
Great
Me
Writing
School
Williams
Tennessee
Tennessee Williams
Had
Glass
Read
Got
After
Scripts
Younger
Play
Started
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.
Jamaica Kincaid
Life
Language
Will
My Life
Become
Nothing
Else
Distortion
Out
One Of The Things
Something
Something Else
Remains
Normal
Same
Just
Happen
Turn
English
English Language
Now
Things
Started
I suffered a lot of setbacks when I started; I didn't have any work experience and no real confidence to go after the career that I knew in the back of my mind I really wanted. It affected my confidence as knock-back after knock-back left me feeling like I might never succeed.
Jameela Jamil
Work
Me
Confidence
Experience
Mind
Feeling
Back
Never
Knew
Like
Real
Go
Affected
Lot
Left
Any
Wanted
After
Succeed
Might
Really
Suffered
Started
Career
Setbacks
Everyone was wearing jeans, so I started wearing slacks. I'd walk on, and people would laugh before I got to the mic because I looked stupid.
James Acaster
People
Walk
Stupid
Before
Everyone
Laugh
Would
Wearing
Looked
Because
Got
Mic
Jeans
Started
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