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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
Abbi Jacobson
School
Comedy
Getting
Middle
Middle School
Interested
Really
Started
I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
Abbi Jacobson
College
Visual
Citizens
Visual Arts
New
Up
Ended
York
Going
Upright
Graduated
Moved
Arts
New York
Wanted
After
Interested
Realized
Really
Brigade
Started
I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.
Abbi Jacobson
Funny
School
Circle
Think
Typical
Bit
Definitely
More
Part
Perform
Am
Friends
Middle
Where
Middle School
Little
Social
Little Bit
Route
Thing
Started
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
Abigail Washburn
Future
God
Time
You
Hurt
Parents
First
Past
Pain
Record
Record Deal
Gut
Miraculously
Feel
Like
Know
Fell
Period
Deal
Nashville
Go
Child
Banjo
China
Your
Your Child
Connect
Started
Playing
When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.
Ace Young
Water
Old
Fire
Big
Ran
Out
Backyard
Brother
Pouring
Lighting
Were
Years
Cup
Started
Creek
Pulling
I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
Action Bronson
Work
Day
Me
Man
End Of The Day
Will
Criticism
Analyze
Way
One-Way
Finish
Take
Nobody
Piece
Make
Another
Because
Always
End
Times
Going
Listen
Want
Decisions
Persuade
Persuaded
Started
I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.
Action Bronson
Say
Would
Rapping
Because
Doin
Were
Friends
Started
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
Adam Beach
Time
Good
Me
Man
Culture
Abandonment
Parents
Good Time
Feelings
Young
Medicine
Indian
Embrace
Had
He
Also
Because
Vulnerable
Caught
Tradition
Loss
Sixteen
After
Really
Acting
Interpret
Started
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
Adam Beach
Goal
Movie
Wanted
Acting
Initially
Started
I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.
Adam Cole
Training
School
High
High School
Wrestling
Combat
Academy
South
Trained
Senior
Started
Zone
Philadelphia
I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming the absolute best pro wrestling that I could be.
Adam Cole
Best
Myself
First
Everything
Wrestling
Absolute
Could
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Put
Said
Always
Becoming
Pro
Gonna
Started
In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual 'Highlander' club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down.
Adam F. Goldberg
Best
Game
People
School
Made
Few
Club
Down
Other
High
Administration
Geeks
High School
David
Had
Obsessed
Soon
Became
Began
Friends
Hitting
Movie
Mike
Each
Actual
Swords
Shut
Started
Playing
Disruptive
Two
I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
Adam Garcia
Okay
About
Knew
Feet
Doing
Were
Years
Tapping
After
Then
Started
Two
AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The San Jose Mercury News'. We digital journalism pioneers communicated obsessively by AIM, and as a newbie, I recall being amazed that the whole newsroom was 'chatting' this way.
Adam Lashinsky
News
Remember
Digital
Aim
Earnest
Way
Joined
Chatting
Remember When
Mercury
Journalism
Amazed
Pioneers
Being
San
Newsroom
Using
Whole
Recall
Started
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
Adam Michnik
Work
War
Myself
Day
Own
Consider
Though
My Own
Countries
Sure
Iraq
Links
Did
Mourning
Flags
Against
Lower
Even
Started
Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees.
Adam Neumann
Me
Business
Before
Clothes
Baby
Guide
Out
Mentor
Had
Knees
Put
Contacts
Idea
Protect
How
Real
Just
Clothing
Worked
Pads
Company
Garment
Things
Started
When I started at Baruch in January 2002, I was almost 23 years old. I'd previously spent five years as an officer the Israeli Navy. I did what I thought you were supposed to do at that age - a little studying and a lot of trying to have fun.
Adam Neumann
You
Age
Have Fun
Old
Thought
Spent
Almost
Studying
Supposed
Israeli
Were
Years
Lot
Five
Officer
Trying
Did
Little
January
Fun
Navy
Started
Finishing what you started is important.
Adam Neumann
You
Important
Finishing
Started
'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.
Adam Pally
Life
Buy
Me
You
People
Word
Husband
Stupid
Big
Same Thing
Living
Think
Other
See
Factor
Lead
True
Altar
Because
Hear
Lot
Left
Friends
Same
Just
Want
Which
Hollywood
Rooms
Means
Her
Thing
Started
Basically
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'
Adam Rapp
Fight
Think
Playwright
Bad
Direct
Something
Compromising
Directors
Had
Putting
Like
Concepts
Well
Learn
Sort
How
Were
Huge
Intend
Going
Experiences
Against
Should
Play
Early
Started
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.
Adam Rapp
First
Think
Too
Once
Backs
Composition
Directing
More
Put
Stuff
Got
Lot
Very
Did
Afraid
Theater
Interested
Them
Far
Turned
Film
Actor
Away
Things
Started
To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
Adam Richman
Work
Love
Game
Training
Monotony
Ninety
Running
Minutes
Rather
Gym
Part
Combat
Looked
Became
Than
Soccer
Workouts
Chore
Started
Playing
I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.
Adam Rippon
Music
Time
Together
Dance
First
Active
Rink
Magic
Like
Felt
First Time
Always
Came
Wanted
Loved
Skating
Really
Things
Started
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Adam Sandler
Family
Character
Me
School
Wife
Hero
Lose
Kids
Stay
Brother
He
Feels
New
Like
Because
New Hampshire
His
Hampshire
Up
Friends
Children
Want
Wants
Them
Much
Chooses
Works
Grow
Grow Up
Started
Two
I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.
Adam Schlesinger
Myself
Character
Beatles
Think
Kid
Characters
Mustard
About
Inventing
Directly
Rita
Write
Beatles Songs
Songs
Like
Names
Also
Because
Rocky
Maxwell
Want
Loved
Lovely
Mean
Initially
Started
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
Adam Schlesinger
Music
Family
Parents
Classical
About
Both
Piano
Piano Lessons
Taking
Instruments
Always
Were
Lot
Conductor
Grandfather
Grandparents
Lessons
Professor
Play
Actually
Started
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