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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN ARC![]()
From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.
HERMANN HESSE![]()
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my...
FRANKIE VALLI My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement.
BEA ARTHUR I had a tough time getting help for myself because I was afraid to leave my children who needed me.
BRENDA JOHNSON It was annoying to me the first time I ever heard it. Mind you, I had to go perform that all the tim...
LINDA PERRY Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so d...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI It was really weird when I heard my voice coming out of a fish.
ALEXANDER GOULD I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai...
PATRICK STEWART![]()
GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except...
TUPAC SHAKUR The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was n...
CAROL GILLIGAN![]()
When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.
EMILY PROCTER![]()
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I w...
BEN BARNES The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER I was so scared. I was very afraid. He pulled my hair and forced me and locked me in the bathroom.
ERIKA CRUZ![]()
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punche...
CHRIS BROWN I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING![]()
I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified wh...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l...
ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEATRICE ARTHUR It was a great honor to be selected. My coach (George Braun) told me I was the first player picked f...
JOE MANNING![]()
When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tab...
JAMES E. FAUST![]()
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he...
CHARLIE PUTH Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholici...
JOAN ARK Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholici...
JOAN VAN ARK![]()
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festiva...
TAKESHI KITANO![]()
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have a...
KIRSTEN DUNST![]()
My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this sil...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri...
LEOS CARAX![]()
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . ....
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of ...
ADAM RAPP Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I firs...
AUSTIN CARLILE![]()
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive...
ANGELA BASSETT I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing tha...
ALEXANDER CHEE I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably sp...
JOHNNY MATHIS Dr. Adkins was so understanding and a great help to me and where God was taking me. He was trying to...
BISHOP MARCELL WRIGHT JR One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. S...
TAYLOR MOMSEN![]()
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I h...
SCOTT WEILAND Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the v...
AARON WEINSTEIN 'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the ...
AARON WEINSTEIN So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ...
JAMES EARL JONES![]()
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right betwee...
KATY MIXON![]()
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th...
ANDREA YATES My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surr...
LAURA OSNES I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR![]()
I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. Sh...
KENNETH LONERGAN Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Com...
CHARLES SIMEON![]()
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my...
DAVID HAREWOOD When I heard my name called I was just so psyched. I'd heard they were one of the teams interested i...
BLAKE WAGNER When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my ...
MARSHA NORMAN![]()
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK![]()
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to ...
JOHN WOOLMAN I still do work on my cars, but not nearly as much as I did last year, ... Last year I was almost do...
JOSH WISE![]()
My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was...
BILLIE LOURD If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my...
PETER WELCH![]()
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his calle...
BENNY GREEN![]()
When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song...
HUGH LAURIE![]()
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that...
HENNY YOUNGMAN Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that mad...
MELANIE FIONA I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' - 126th Street and Normandy, Sou...
F. GARY GRAY When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever...
LEWIS BLACK I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL![]()
I was baptized in the eighth grade, but I didn't really understand what it meant. Then it was in col...
BARRY SANDERS You like me?” I repeat, because, well, I want to be really, really sure that I heard him right. Th...
CARRIE JONES![]()
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN![]()
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony or...
KURT MASUR![]()
Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS![]()
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
NANCY PELOSI![]()
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that H...
CHARLIE "TREMENDOUS" JONES![]()
She said she was in the clinic and heard a voice, ... I said, 'Yo, that was me.'
NICK CANNON![]()
Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and d...
ANTON CHEKHOV I was never so scared in my life .... I was in tears. At one time I didn't know if they were going t...
BECKY GARLAND In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was w...
ORAL ROBERTS From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students....
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN They were the first ones to offer me a contract. I just wanted to hear from other teams. It was my d...
FELIX HERNANDEZ![]()
When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very...
AMY PURDY I first participated in the Dakar Rally 18 years ago. Racing cars was my interest and I was lucky to...
HIROSHI MASUOKA![]()
As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Nigh...
HELMUT KOHL![]()
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
ROSA PARKS![]()
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f...
INDIRA GANDHI In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and woul...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI![]()
In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I hear...
DANA CARVEY![]()
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God ...
AVERY BROOKS I was pretty surprised when I heard about this honor. There were a lot of good freshmen in the leagu...
ALEX MCGUIRE I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.
CASSADEE POPE I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH![]()
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER![]()
I was very much afraid that by coming forward it was going to affect my career. That's what I was wo...
MONTEL WILLIAMS
JOAN ARC
From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all. HERMANN HESSE
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. INDIRA GANDHI I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my...
FRANKIE VALLI My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement.
BEA ARTHUR I had a tough time getting help for myself because I was afraid to leave my children who needed me.
BRENDA JOHNSON It was annoying to me the first time I ever heard it. Mind you, I had to go perform that all the tim...
LINDA PERRY Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so d...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI It was really weird when I heard my voice coming out of a fish.
ALEXANDER GOULD I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai...
PATRICK STEWART
GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except... TUPAC SHAKUR The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was n...
CAROL GILLIGAN
When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me. EMILY PROCTER
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I w... BEN BARNES The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER I was so scared. I was very afraid. He pulled my hair and forced me and locked me in the bathroom.
ERIKA CRUZ
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punche... CHRIS BROWN I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING
I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified wh... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l...
ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEATRICE ARTHUR It was a great honor to be selected. My coach (George Braun) told me I was the first player picked f...
JOE MANNING
When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tab... JAMES E. FAUST
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he... CHARLIE PUTH Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholici...
JOAN ARK Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholici...
JOAN VAN ARK
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festiva...
TAKESHI KITANO
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have a... KIRSTEN DUNST
My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this sil... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri...
LEOS CARAX
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . .... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of ...
ADAM RAPP Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I firs...
AUSTIN CARLILE
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive... ANGELA BASSETT I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing tha...
ALEXANDER CHEE I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably sp...
JOHNNY MATHIS Dr. Adkins was so understanding and a great help to me and where God was taking me. He was trying to...
BISHOP MARCELL WRIGHT JR One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. S...
TAYLOR MOMSEN
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I h... SCOTT WEILAND Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the v...
AARON WEINSTEIN 'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the ...
AARON WEINSTEIN So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ...
JAMES EARL JONES
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right betwee... KATY MIXON
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... ... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th...
ANDREA YATES My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surr...
LAURA OSNES I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR
I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. Sh... KENNETH LONERGAN Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Com...
CHARLES SIMEON
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my... DAVID HAREWOOD When I heard my name called I was just so psyched. I'd heard they were one of the teams interested i...
BLAKE WAGNER When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my ...
MARSHA NORMAN
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away... CHUCK PALAHNIUK
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to ... JOHN WOOLMAN I still do work on my cars, but not nearly as much as I did last year, ... Last year I was almost do...
JOSH WISE
My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was... BILLIE LOURD If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my...
PETER WELCH
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his calle... BENNY GREEN
When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song... HUGH LAURIE
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that... HENNY YOUNGMAN Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that mad...
MELANIE FIONA I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' - 126th Street and Normandy, Sou...
F. GARY GRAY When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever...
LEWIS BLACK I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
I was baptized in the eighth grade, but I didn't really understand what it meant. Then it was in col... BARRY SANDERS You like me?” I repeat, because, well, I want to be really, really sure that I heard him right. Th...
CARRIE JONES
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8... AMY ROBACH And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony or...
KURT MASUR
Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo... NANCY PELOSI
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M... ELLEN BURSTYN Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that H...
CHARLIE "TREMENDOUS" JONES
She said she was in the clinic and heard a voice, ... I said, 'Yo, that was me.' NICK CANNON
Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and d... ANTON CHEKHOV I was never so scared in my life .... I was in tears. At one time I didn't know if they were going t...
BECKY GARLAND In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was w...
ORAL ROBERTS From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students....
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN They were the first ones to offer me a contract. I just wanted to hear from other teams. It was my d...
FELIX HERNANDEZ
When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very... AMY PURDY I first participated in the Dakar Rally 18 years ago. Racing cars was my interest and I was lucky to...
HIROSHI MASUOKA
As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Nigh... HELMUT KOHL
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau... ROSA PARKS
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f... INDIRA GANDHI In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and woul...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI
In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I hear... DANA CARVEY
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God ... AVERY BROOKS I was pretty surprised when I heard about this honor. There were a lot of good freshmen in the leagu...
ALEX MCGUIRE I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.
CASSADEE POPE I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e... DAVID ROCKEFELLER
I was very much afraid that by coming forward it was going to affect my career. That's what I was wo... MONTEL WILLIAMS
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som... 
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and... 
My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, ... 
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it fro... 
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be. 
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. 
I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. 
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death inte... 
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, ... 
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, t... 
Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r... 
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is go... 
I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w... 
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti... 
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad ... 
When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys... 
I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w... 
Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. 
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y... 
Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to... 
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... 
A heart filled with anger has no room for love. 
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t... 
Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ... 
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ... 
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. 
The Four Rules of Life:
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you... 
Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything. And though we would give a... 
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off? 
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] sp... 
No woman has an abortion for fun. 
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go th... 
The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords ... 
I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. T... 
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman. 
We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do. 
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's ... 
Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of... 