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When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Love
College
Year
Took
Classes
Some
Fell
Freshman
Freshman Year
Again
Acting
Acting Classes
Found
I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.
Mary Beard
You
Science
School
Made
Drop
Took
Latin
Fuss
Had
Like
French
Boy
German
Greek
Whether
Which
Much
Meant
Choose
Who
Prep
Mum
Start
Early
Started
I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.
Mary Ellen Mark
Love
Time
People
Remember
Walk
Thought
First
Took
Out
Photographing
Never
Contact
Pictures
Another
First Time
Making
Question
Forever
Shoot
Just
Want
Them
Downtown
Street
Started
Philadelphia
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
Mary J. Blige
Life
Love
Government
Myself
Me
You
Love Me
Responsibility
My Life
Feeling
Sorry
Owes
Every
Else
Took
City
Something
More
Mentality
Part
Parties
Gotta
Came
Than
Stopped
Anybody
Anybody Else
Pity
Loves
Breakthrough
Inner
Inner City
I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
MaryJanice Davidson
Great
Me
Book
Wonderful
Suits
Car
Black
Men
Doors
Nice
Every
Took
Back
Book Tour
Once
Signing
Brought
Driven
Tour
Hotel
Opened
Came
Were
Waited
Where
When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, 'What can women do in boxing?' I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can't women? And I became a world champion before my marriage.
Mary Kom
Me
Marriage
Women
Champion
People
World
Challenge
Men
Before
Took
Laughed
Became
Boxing
Said
World Champion
Why
Started
I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
Mary Kom
Parents
Took
Out
Financially
Sheer
Boxing
Up
Interest
Help
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Mary Wesley
Mother
Country
Took
Local
Our
France
Pretty
Never
Knew
Well
Learn
Because
West
Italy
Children
Us
Really
Languages
Keen
Travels
Awful
One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
Masi Oka
Emotions
Took
Touch
More
Learn
Up
Get
Human
Human Emotions
Acting
Reasons
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.
Matisyahu
Faith
Writing
First
Year
Took
Everything
Once
Musical
Way
Evident
Kids
Kind
Married
Religious
About
Had
Excitement
Course
Became
Within
Got
Off
Very
Happened
Newly
Found
Started
Career
I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.
Matt Cameron
Teacher
Good
Try
Practice
Rudimentary
Took
Guess
Taking
Stuff
Sound
Still
Lot
Trying
Which
Really
Lessons
Play
Enjoyed
Early
When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.
Matt Czuchry
Saying
Me
Three
Own
Spell
Took
Considering
Months
Kindergarten
My Own
Name
Like
Also
Terrible
Learn
How
Much
Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.
Matt Czuchry
Me
History
Together
Science
Events
Political
Made
College
Lawyer
Year
Took
Kind
One Thing
Horribly
Direction
Pursue
Rethink
New
New Direction
Came
Political Science
Did
Senior
Senior Year
Being
Confluence
Double
Acting
Planning
Thing
Career
There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
Matt Gallagher
War
Time
Took
Back
Back Up
Pen
Evidence
Carried
All-Time
Classics
Joseph
Takes
Catch-22
Over
Genre
Tim
Lot
Western
Up
Decade
Quiet
Front
Fiction
Many
Assertion
Things
Maria
We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.
Matt Groening
People
Took
Air
TV
TV Show
Simpsons
Almost
Does
Doing
Go
Been
Years
Off
Did
Same
Just
Movie
The Simpsons
Which
Movies
Us
Show
Why
Ever
Four
Start
Second
Imagine
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
Matt Haig
Me
Confidence
Clever
Took
Super
Some
About
Having
Could
Write
Look
Without
Pass
Least
Test
Get
Just
Wanted
Realise
I caught a break and took an entry-level job with the Houston Texans when I was 28.
Matt LaFleur
Job
Took
Houston
Caught
Texans
Break
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.
Matt Lucas
Me
Gay
Man
Party
Met
Nice
Took
Out
Wing
Scene
Taking
Couple
Couple Of Years Ago
Revelation
His
Years
Years Ago
Very
Clubs
Convert
Who
Started
Recent
As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.
Matt Skiba
Music
You
Three
Took
Kid
Those
Scales
Gives
Percussion
Piano
Piano Lessons
Like
Sing
Learned
Because
Rock
How
Rock Music
Years
Did
Duran
Any
Interest
Cool
Lessons
Things
Basics
When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush.
Matt Skiba
Took
Part
Re-Election
Rock
George
George W
George W. Bush
Up
Against
Bush
So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'
Matt Stone
You
Awesome
Think
Conservatives
Took
Our
Liberals
Say
Deliberate
Taken
Lot
Very
Same
Where
Stand
Show
Even
Shows
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
Matthew Desmond
Time
Battle
Writing
Losing
Living
Teeming
Took
Our
Kids
Cities
About
Slums
He
Wrote
Because
Without
Were
Won
Heat
Tuberculosis
Jacob
Dying
Toes
Homes
Philadelphia
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
Matthew McConaughey
Time
Great
Woman
Father
Thought
Took
Right Time
Would
Would-Be
Make
Always
Just
Wanted
Happen
Right
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
Matthew Modine
You
Discipline
Took
Release
Find
Photographs
Someone
Take
Just
Portrait
Image
Shutter
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
Matthew Moy
Love
Culture
School
Language
Took
Though
High
High School
Fell
Just
Chinese
Japanese
I went to 'Godspell' when I was 10 - my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw. That was it for me.
Maura Tierney
Me
Mother
First
Took
Saw
Ever
Play
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