The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.
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My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was '... LAURA BENANTI Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL I'm going to go out and do a little cowboyin'. You know what that is? Cowboying is getting in a moto... ROBERT BLAKE I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' g... STEVE JOBS Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL If you want a home with three bedrooms, and one to two baths and a one-car garage, that will work. T... BOB NIEMAN I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. GLENN CLOSE There's an old chimney up there and I think the wind blew that off the old gym. GLENN DAVIS I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ... EMMELINE PANKHURST Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL I was at the Academy of Country Music Awards and my first record had just come out. Buck Owens walke... KENNY CHESNEY I love performing more than anything and having people hear my music. I know I've had to give some s... BRITNEY SPEARS If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you wou... LYNN GOOD I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me s... DR. DRE There was probably two or three inches of water in my garage until I was able to get sandbags up aga... JEFF POLLARD They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of... MERYL STREEP That one hit to left field got him. He gave up one, but that's two games in a row he's come out and ... ROBBIE BENNETT The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramopho... MARVIN AMMORI I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... DR. DRE My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my pa... KING KRULE We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out. JAY MCSHANN I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I had to do a history project with a friend who was in the choir and we decided to meet up in the mu... ANTONIO WITHERSPOON [1. Replace your garage door with one labeled] impact-resistant. ... after Charley, home after home ... LESLIE CHAPMAN She had this old tin bathtub that you can carry around, that they used to use before indoor plumbing... JOYCE JACKSON Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from ... RAF SIMONS I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But ... LEN GOODMAN If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a g... WALTER MOSSBERG When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. SALLY RAND One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all the... VALERIE JUNE I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this... AISHA TYLER We hit the ball real well the first two innings and that gave us a huge edge. It took the wind out o... BILL TUSSEY Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight o... ALAN GORRIE He would literally come every day --I had a day off and weekends and stuff -- and pick me up early i... JOSH LUCAS A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know w... CHARLIE DANIELS The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th... ALAN LEE I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my g... JULIA ROBERTS Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up. ALAN NOBLE You declared it, which I did. I can never ever remember having somebody give me a record with a $50 ... JOE SMITH It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar... KAREN MARIE MONING I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/... RAYMOND OCHOA I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up w... DUSTIN LYNCH Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone... ROMY MADLEY CROFT My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came ou... HASIL ADKINS I used to dress up in my mom's old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and m... HEATHER GRAHAM It's made my life easier this year. The first three years I had to suffer because they were up and d... JEFF RULAND A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice ... LISA LOEB When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't ... CHARLEY PRIDE I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th... OCTAVIA SPENCER At the time, they were playing soccer and baseball. Upon returning from one such event, I noticed a ... CLYDE PADGETT III Yeah, that was one crazy year. Basically my whole philosophy starting out -- because the question ca... HOWIE DAY The second home run I thought it was a pop-up. I guess the wind gave me a little help. BRYSON BENDALL The second home run I thought it was a pop-up. I guess the wind gave me a little help. BRYSON BENDALL I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older. JOHNNY VAN ZANT I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'... KEVIN FRAZIER I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style ... EMMYLOU HARRIS I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to... DAVID SUCHET He was old-school, old-time hockey. He showed up to play every night. JODY GAGE I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did e... CRYSTAL BOWERSOX When I did suit back up and put the Superlatives together, I had a lot of trouble in my mind followi... MARTY STUART I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record th... EMINEM I blew into L.A. streaking down the freeway, the song "L.A. Woman" blasting out of the car speakers,... JIM CHERRY (Chad and I) grew up making movies with my home camera. I got ambitious in high school and made this... GREGG BISHOP Everything has it's own time and place,
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You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari... MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ... MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm... MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f... MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not... MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I... MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho... MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ... MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab... MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ... MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'... MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i... MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot... MICHAEL PATERNITI