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It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me ... ADRIEN BRODY But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).
COREY HAIM It was something I intended on doing down the track, ... Now, if I had been a player in Australia wh...
BEN GRAHAM
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i... JENNA USHKOWITZ I thought I was supposed to get back points, along with a lot of people, but the ref just didn't giv...
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I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed m... MARY ELLEN MARK Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKn...
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DONALD PLEASENCE
Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by th... CLIFF RICHARD
He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because tha... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that...
MIL MILLINGTON I kind of did that when I first got back. I got that out of my system. It was only special to me as ...
JAMES WILLIS It was nice that he was able to hit those shots because everyone else was cold against their zone. H...
BILL SAMBROOKES I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but ...
ALICIA MACHADO I guess it was just the whole point of me coming back, trying to get back in my rhythm, get back in ...
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DREW STANTON
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Acade... SALLY KELLERMAN I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest s...
DAVID R. ELLIS 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON It was one of the best performances of my career. Passing shots and lobs worked really well for us. ...
SHINOBU ASAGOE It was hard to move ahead career-wise when my children were younger. I worked part-time. When I went...
LISA ROSE Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
MITCH KAPOR It set me back a lot, but I've been working hard to get back to normal, back to my regular times. It...
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I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin... STEVE-O
I was only fond of the music up to a point. Rock and roll wasn't really my love. DAN HICKS That was a low point in Denver history.
BILL MUSGRAVE
At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet. OLIVIA WILDE After that takedown, the crowd got really loud and I felt it was my match from then on. I think that...
BRANDON LOW I finally called it quits and it's good that I felt very comfortable with my last jumps. I was moved...
MASAHIKO HARADA
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to ... JODI PICOULT [The reality was in between.] At least now I know where I stand and what my challenge is, ... Now th...
CHAD PENNINGTON
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put... EL DEBARGE
I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. ... MATT DAMON It would be more than I deserve at this point in my career, ... It was one of our goals heading into...
CARL EDWARDS 'Fukrey' was a major turning point of my career because it was post this film that I started...
ALI FAZAL
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a... ORSON SCOTT CARD It was a really low-budget film. The set was in her garage, really low budget.
BECCA GARDNER I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me...
SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all...
RICK ALLEN But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all...
RICK SAVAGE
Even though I wrestled Ric Flair very early on in my career, it was a short match, so getting to wre... SHAWN MICHAELS
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the ... E. O. WILSON
It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All ... TERRY BRADSHAW I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w... PARKER STEVENSON
Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, “I don’t think I would have made it past the audi... MARIA V. SNYDER
That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. al... ROD STEWART I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, ...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a the... RAYMOND CHANDLER I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's &...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that ...
JASON ALDEAN He set a bunch of records back in high school. I think everyone knew he was going to be good back th...
DAVID GILLILAND It was little bit too late to come back in the second set. I was missing a lot on baseline, my serve...
MARAT SAFIN
One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after... CHARLTON HESTON If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was ki...
NAOMI KLEIN At that point in my career, I didn't have an appreciation how difficult the transition is for young ...
MARK SHAPIRO I get on so well with lots of Scots, and a man who had a big influence on my career and was a great ...
JIMMY HILL
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' call... PAMELA ANDERSON
I felt pretty good about it, and of course it was the kicking off point for the rest of my career. ARNOLD PALMER I was thinking when I made that 3-pointer that they'd probably try to answer it. But I had a lot of ...
CHRISTOPHER JONES It was a decision that was certainly not easy and a decision that I hope the people who have support...
OMAR JACOBS
I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go o... PAUL AUSTER My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him ...
GG ALLIN Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety...
JON FAVREAU 'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off...
DAVID AYER You have to hit like 10 winners before you get a point because she gets every single ball back. When...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA
When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song... HUGH LAURIE That was the key point. There was everything in this match, a lot of turnarounds, but I knew how to ...
GUILLERMO CORIA I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on...
GARY GLITTER I had my sights set on another college at that point, but things have a funny way of working out. So...
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We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans... 
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to th... 
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar,... 
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. 
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I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetica... 