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I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary.
Jeff Greene
Down
Market
Securities
Scary
Got
Were
Huge
Accumulate
Them
Really
Things
Started
Position
Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.
Jeff Hardy
Personality
Cake
First
Warrior
Later
Way
Topped
Carried
Ring
Wrestling
Physicality
He
Weird
Combination
Shawn
Himself
Came
Ultimate
Sting
Wanted
Craziness
Then
Coolness
Early
Started
My family has been in the wrestling business for over 70 years. I'm a third-generation wrestling promoter, and years ago, when I fist started, there was a wrestling audience in the United States in 22 regions.
Jeff Jarrett
Family
Business
States
Has-Been
Promoter
Wrestling
Over
Audience
Been
Years
Years Ago
Fist
Regions
United
United States
Started
My grandmother started as a ticket-taker and basically became the CFO of my dad's company. It was a very important first impression for me - I've always looked on the business with more eyes than just as a wrestler.
Jeff Jarrett
Me
Business
Eyes
First
Important
Wrestler
More
First Impression
Looked
Became
Always
Impression
Very
Than
Just
Grandmother
Company
Dad
Started
Basically
Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'
Jeff Jordan
Breakfast
Air
Airbnb
Bed
Started
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.
Jeff Kinney
School
College
Validating
Draw
Pencil
Drawings
Cartooning
Attention
Until
Got
Were
Lot
Huge
Very
Middle
Middle School
Sketches
Start
Started
I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.
Jeff Lemire
Video Games
Able
Never
Maintain
Know
Because
Again
Video
Games
Ever
Play
Started
Career
When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.
Jeff Nichols
Me
Son
Remember
Sick
Saw
Bit
Broke
Scene
Devastated
Him
Encounters
Up
Close
Heartbreaking
Get
Screaming
Being
Little
Little Bit
Richard
Started
There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
Jeffrey Donovan
School
Year
High
High School
Junior
Junior Year
Where
Anything
Theater
Started
Program
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Gay
You
Marriage
People
Fate
First
Think
Gay Marriage
Our
Way
Marriages
About
Determines
Having
Potent
Remains
Idea
New
Heads
Like
Terms
Well
Lot
York
Just
New York
Deciding
Used
Actions
Shows
Function
Now
Right
Started
Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Love
History
Entertainment
Business
People
Remember
Impossible
Brilliant
Somewhere
First
Everyone
Later
Entertainment Business
Exactly
Exactly What
Someone
Something
Fired
Studio
Between
Days
Most
Said
Got
Doing
Years
Improbable
Afraid
The History Of
Eight
Successful
Disney
Successful People
Who
Started
Two
When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
First
Young
Those
About
Guy
Crush
Over
Days
Fell
Learned
Because
Were
Years
Lot
Jack
Subsequent
Behind
Young Guy
Japan
Japanese
Sent
Gonna
Us
Reason
Companies
Why
Started
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
Jeffrey Tambor
Other
Strike
Unlike
Way
Classes
Taking
Gentlemanly
Began
Privately
Anything
Loved
Them
Acting
Used
Acting Classes
Helping
Each
Started
Treated
Set
I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.
Jeffrey Wright
Fall
Pool
Kid
Hunger
Broke
Hunger Games
Out
Kind
About
Football
Until
Surfing
Years
Years Ago
Leg
North
Shore
Skateboard
Working
Used
Games
Riding
Play
Play Football
Four
Started
I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.
Jeffrey Wright
Year
Sideways
Kind
Junior
Junior Year
After
Acting
Amherst
Flop
Started
Career
When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.
Jeffrey Wright
Creativity
World
Money
Made
Diminish
Would
More
Make
Off
Impression
Artist
Wanted
Capacity
Actor
Thing
Started
Last
By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.
Jen Kirkman
Time
Club
Scene
Had
Doing
Died
Club Scene
Started
By The Time
I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
Jen Lancaster
Life
Writing
Own
Out
Running
My Own
Material
Began
Fiction
Started
I think my performance in 'What's Love Got to Do With It' was powerful. I was so unafraid and confident. You know, it was the first mother of black Hollywood. I was Tina Turner's mama. That's what started it all. I had fallen in love right before that movie, and I had absolutely no fear in me.
Jenifer Lewis
Love
Me
You
Fear
Mother
Black
No Fear
First
Before
Think
Unafraid
Absolutely
Had
Performance
Powerful
Know
Got
Fallen
Mama
Tina
Confident
Movie
Hollywood
Turner
Right
Started
I started writing when I was 4.
Jenna Blum
Writing
Started
When I started out in this business, dance was not at the height it is now. It was almost like, you're either a dancer or an actress.
Jenna Dewan
You
Business
Dance
Dancer
Out
Almost
Like
Either
Height
Now
Actress
Started
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.
Jenni Rivera
Work
Music
Time
Mother
Haters
Three
Single
Closed
Doors
Music Industry
Typical
Could
Divorced
Feel
Industry
Single Mother
Prove
Labels
Model
Closed Doors
Artist
Done
Getting
Size
Decided
Your
Many
Started
The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.
Jennifer Coolidge
Comedy
Doors
Minute
Opened
Doing
The Doors
Started
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
Jennifer Egan
Time
Come
Ideas
Know
Question
Intellectual
Get
Where
Place
Really
Start
Started
Need
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.
Jennifer Egan
Work
Me
You
Culture
Think
Changing
Our
Way
Fuse
Seemed
Abstract
Idea
New
Look
How
How Much
Rocking
Question
York
Going
New York
Fiction
Interesting
Much
Illinois
Lives
Image
Inner
Started
In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.
Jennifer Egan
Book
Writing
Thought
Before
Few
Other
Way
Write
Written
Still
Squad
Just
Wanted
Stories
Stall
Realizing
Even
Started
Starting
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