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My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.
Lecrae
Music
Me
Experience
Mother
First
Rap
Rap Music
Kind
Songs
House
She
Halfway
Hip-Hop
Different
Former
Worked
Full
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
Lee Child
Entertainment
Book
World
Desperation
Logical
Job
First
Feelings
Become
Stay
Inside
Some
Only
Driven
Wrote
Another
Felt
Without
Answer
How
Real
Very
Getting
Worked
Novelist
Actually
I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
Lee Daniels
Minority
Bros
Casting
Head
Talent
Like
Era
Lee
While
Worked
Warner
Warner Bros
Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.
Lee Hazlewood
Good
You
Whatever
Guess
Later
Strings
Those
Melody
Out
About
Records
Nobody
Know
Alright
Heard
Low
Worked
Million
Playing
For years, my Chinese family supported me, but they wanted me to have an arranged marriage, so I ran away and worked as a waitress. It was a tiny salary, but I was so happy; it was the first time I'd accomplished something.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Time
Family
Me
Happy
Marriage
First
Ran
Something
Supported
First Time
Arranged
Years
Salary
Accomplished
Waitress
Tiny
Wanted
Chinese
Worked
Away
I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.
Lee Majors
Year
Parks
Recreation
Department
Worked
Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.
Lee Marvin
Out
He
Get
Gets
Expenses
Newman
Worked
Million
Two
I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.
Lee Radziwill
People
Wonderful
Blessed
Own
Minds
Out
Find
My Own
Read
Children
Worked
Hard
Even
Harder
Two
I had worked for a lot of directors whose work I didn't respect, and as I was editing material, I was thinking about how I would have shot the scenes and what I would have done to make the scenes better. After several years of that, I got to the point that I was pretty confident I could sit in the director's chair.
Lee Unkrich
Work
Respect
Director
Editing
Better
Sit
Thinking
Several
Would
Pretty
About
Scenes
Directors
Point
Could
Had
Make
Got
How
Material
Years
Lot
Done
Confident
After
Worked
Shot
Chair
Whose
When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
Lei Jun
Pressure
Results
Were
Worked
Hard
Satisfactory
I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.
Leila Janah
Day
World
Poverty
Earning
Those
Studied
Particularly
Around
Than
Bank
Worked
Less
World Bank
Levels
There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.
Lela Loren
You
Safety
Intimate
Bizarre
Scenes
Most
Comfort
Doing
Closely
Worked
Your
Actor
Last
I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
Lena Headey
White
Lunch
Had
Him
Course
Because
Boy
Tights
Tan
His
Just
Staff
Fancied
Lovely
Worked
Served
I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.
Lena Waithe
Great
Wonderful
First
Bosses
Had
Narrative
Years
Lot
Role
Role Models
Models
Pa
Worked
Film
Her
Two
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
Lennie James
Time
Character
Films
Television
TV
TV Series
More
Than
Theater
Worked
Certainly
Series
Film
Playing
I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
Lenny Abrahamson
World
Tough
Guess
Television
Directors
Never
Industry
Worked
I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
Lenny Wilkens
Thought
Never
Had
Individually
Know
Got
Were
Them
Worked
Really
Hard
Floor
Players
Chance
Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.
Leon Panetta
Throughout
Budget
Particularly
Always
Issues
Been
Years
Regards
Worked
Hard
Washington
I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.
Leonard Mlodinow
Science
Natural
World
Law
Remember
Mind
Chemistry
Universe
Back
Our
Everything
Physical
About
Only
Always
How
Very
Curious
Loved
Far
Worked
Works
Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other scientists are doing. You have to tie concepts into everyday life, or they just won't be interesting for readers.
Leonard Mlodinow
Life
You
Writing
Everyday Life
Whatever
Think
Other
Everyday
Books
Tried
Somewhat
Concepts
Make
Tie
Readers
Makes
Always
Doing
Scientists
Personal
Just
Different
Interesting
Worked
I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on.
Leonard Nimoy
Work
Day
Reality
Thought
Black
Black And White
White
Think
Other
Appropriate
Way
Stayed
Poetry
Color
Developing
Still
Than
Did
Move
Anything
Processing
Prefer
Worked
Working
Express
Specific
I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Time
Me
Hate
Focus
Three
Devil
Relaxing
Something
Like
Idle
Years
Done
Movies
Straight
Worked
Really
Workshop
Row
Two
I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.
Leroy Chiao
Time
Meal
Meet
Spent
Out
Would
Stay
Russian
Segment
My Time
He
Well
His
Lot
Up
Very
Times
American
Worked
Working
Actually
Things
I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
Lesley Gore
You
Change
Eyes
People
World
Thought
First
Singing
Think
Change The World
Say
Wow
About
Noble
Like
Robert
Robert Kennedy
How
Discouraging
Very
Front
Then
Worked
Profession
Kennedy
Watched
Started
I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!
Lesley Gore
Man
Amazing
Live
He
Perkins
Up
Just
Worked
Shows
Live Shows
Played
Number
I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.
Lewis Black
Father
Kid
Course
Because
Where
Golf
Golf Course
Little
Worked
Across
Lived
Street
Started
Playing
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