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I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out. Billy Porter

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. Billy Preston

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years. Billy Sherwood

Time Down Took Bit Some Had Studio Almost Years Tape Whenever In-Between Little Little Bit Working Producing Actually Four Started

I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here. Bindi Irwin

Life Day Me Crazy Every Day Old Three Living Every Took Say Spent Kids Pretty Entire About Entire Life Come Until Years Get Just Which Realize Many Lived Actually Here Zoo

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me. Bipasha Basu

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When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit. Bipasha Basu

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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. Black Elk

Nation Took Earth Hoop Thrust Red Stick Center Bright

I'm stoked because no one's really even seen Bo yet. It took me half the season to get used to not having a guitar wrapped around my neck. So I'm anxious for the fans to see what Bo's really about. Bo Bice

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age. Bo Derek

Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack. Bob Beauprez

Cigarettes Took Pledge Broke Signed Obama Per Percent He Days His Office Legislation Tax After Pack Cents Raising

In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks. Bob Beckel

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If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings. Bob Corker

Achieve Savings Took Rather Hikes Ceiling Debt Debt Ceiling Multiple

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story. Bob Newhart

Work Silence Long Seen Doubt Took Benny Tell Would Take He Comedian Without Jack Jack Benny Bravest Afraid Story Ever

As a child, I saw how the industry's sweet-talkers operate. For years, they tried to make my father feel like he was the best actor in the whole world. My father never took them seriously. I, too, imbibed that trait from him. Bobby Deol

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. Boman Irani

Family Me Business Theatre Try Nothing Gave Took Everything Potato Advertisement Obvious Came Lot Friends Selling Family Business Did Just Happened Movies Chips Then Shot Should Planned Flow Suggested Career

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know. Bonnie Raitt

Love Guitar Three Else Took Guitar Lessons Kind Folk Bored Something Something Else Tend Piano Never Head Over Freer Reach Know Always How Hear Get Same Grasp Lessons Chords Play

You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - and it took hundreds of people to make it happen - I can say that. Boots Riley

You Yourself People Made Took Hundreds Hundreds Of People Say Someone Make Make It Happen Get Done Movie Happen Much Speaking Who

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing. Brad Pitt

Good Me You Woman People Looking Took Hiding Some Kissing Outside Pick Idea Like House Arms Around Very Celebrity Decade Get Going Nose Where Shot Your Even Suddenly Thing

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level. Bradley Wiggins

Best World Guitarist Bass Bass Player Bassist Took Way Kind Favourite John Favourites All-Time Fact Could Lead He Another Been In Fact The Who Mean Who Even Level Player

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back. Brandon Flowers

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I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day. Brandon Uranowitz

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I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised. Brendan Coyle

Job Took Has-Been Dream Becoming Been Realised Gamble Actor

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