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I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.
Jane Kaczmarek
Great
Marriage
Women
Kind
Married
Fabulous
Got
Friends
While
Realized
Started
Need
I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.
Jane Levy
Great
Amazing
Parents
Kick
Great Friends
Would
Some
Friends
Different
Really
Acting
Ever
Butt
Started
It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!
Jane Yolen
Music
Class
Together
Writing
Words
Vegetables
School
First
Before
Birth
Musical
Carrot
About
Seems
Poems
Both
Since
First Grade
Like
Wrote
Got
Salad
Been
Chief
Bunch
Grade
Who
Played
Started
When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be an accomplishment.
Janelle Monae
Best
Thought
First
Sidekick
Would
Would-Be
Best Friend
Some
Industry
Goal
Accomplishment
Friend
Started
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
Janet Fitch
Life
Library
Writing
World
My Life
Become
Past
Spend
More
Historian
Than
Going
Just
Want
Realized
Then
Started
Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
Janet Jackson
Down
Hungry
Eat
Eating
Weight
Since
Always
Been
Up
Up And Down
Loved
Little
Ever
Started
I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn't pay? And I answered the questions.
Janet Reno
Me
Song
Money
Pay
Kids
Rap
Collected
About
He
Knew
Support
County
Wrote
She
Answered
Questions
Child
Child Support
Happens
Asking
Wastes
Started
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
Janet Reno
Hope
Crime
Will
Building
Earnest
Our
Terms
Partnerships
Reduce
Continue
America
Efforts
Across
Communities
Started
Violence
Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'
Janet Varney
Life
People
Writing
School
My Life
Parents
Lawyer
Changed
Meet
High
Constantly
Stayed
High School
Only
Both
Both My Parents
Through
He
School Teachers
Like
Became
Were
Where
Your
Teachers
Reason
Dad
Started
Beloved
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
Jared Leto
Change
Director
Young
Too
Way
Those
Kids
Russian
Cage
Annoying
Learn
Lines
Trying
Young Actor
Dismay
Much
Nic
Who
Actor
Eager
Started
I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.
Jared Polis
Government
Best
Myself
Business
Tough
Way
Several
Out
Stay
Guy
Small
Small Business
Small Businesses
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Know
Conclusion
Came
Oftentimes
Little
Businesses
Thing
Started
Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.
Jarvis Cocker
People
Feelings
Band
Distance
Saw
Way
Able
Some
Part
Safe
Due
Interact
Being
Social
Why
Started
Shyness
I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.
Jason Aaron
First
Reading
Back
Thor
First Appearance
Read
Issues
Goal
Appearance
Row
Started
Started Reading
I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'
Jason Bateman
Comedy
Thought
First
Drama
Dramatic
Later
Niro
Out
Find
Some
More
Like
Robert
Robert De Niro
De Niro
Sort
Dustin Hoffman
Going
Maybe
Wanted
Al
Actor
Al Pacino
Started
Career
I started out producing theatre in New York.
Jason Blum
Theatre
Out
New
York
New York
Producing
Started
Halloween was definitely the biggest holiday when I was a kid. We started making our Halloween costumes in August. Me and my mom. My mom was a single mom; it was just her and I.
Jason Blum
Mom
Me
Halloween
Single
Our
Kid
Definitely
Costumes
Single Mom
Making
August
Just
Biggest
Holiday
Her
Started
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13.
Jason Derulo
Music
Good
Dance
Recording
Types
Kinds
Recording Studio
Studied
Studio
Around
Got
Grades
Hitting
Good Grades
Started
Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.
Jason Fried
Job
Shoes
Out
One Thing
Entrepreneurs
Tennis
Since
Like
Another
Got
Been
Sales
Began
Selling
Pro
Shop
Many
Ever
Thing
Started
I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.
Jason Henderson
Book
Monsters
Bookshelf
Kids
Kindergarten
Got
Movie
Alan
Started
Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I'm not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.
Jason Isbell
World
Small
Outside
Never
Had
Touring
Small Town
Town
Person
Anymore
Right
Started
I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.
Jason Kidd
Day
Home
Mind
Thinking
Changing
Back
Later
Tell
Staying
About
Nets
More
Had
Comfortable
Felt
Got
Coming
Go
Wanted
San
Process
San Antonio
Little
Them
Jersey
Started
I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.
Jason Mewes
Mom
Me
Everyone
About
Bought
Hound
Town
Call
Got
Psyched
Movie
Movie Star
Little
Video
Gonna
Then
Really
Little Town
Shown
Star
Her
Started
My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online. I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.
Jason Mraz
Website
Music
Time
Me
You
People
Listening
Internet
First
Everywhere
Would
Online
Directly
Could
Tour
Had
Putting
Because
Audience
Always
Were
Began
Send
Whole
Started
Career
By The Time
I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.
Jason Schwartzman
Me
Band
Back
Would
Find
Know
Just
Where
Anyone
Agent
Even
Started
Playing
I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.
Jason Wu
Fashion
Before
Something
Liked
Fell
Toy
Years
Just
Worked
Really
Fashion Designer
Designer
Started
Career
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.
Jasper Carrott
Comedy
Big
Club
Circuit
Draw
Folk
Develop
Singer
Became
Blossomed
Skills
Resident
Started
Career
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