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BEVERLEY MITCHELL I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.
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TAMRA DAVIS When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Ande...
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COCO MARTIN I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in invest...
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As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. Whe...
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I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the co...
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BILL GOLD It's not what one does for a living but what one does while living that matters in the end.
JAIME CONTRERAS
CHARLENE TILTON Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Bu...
CHRIS BUCK
I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who ... BILL MUMY My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportat...
K. ERIC DREXLER
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I w... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox.
DAVE ANNABLE Michael and I met through music. We were fixed up on a blind date. . . . I was teaching in New York,...
DEBORAH CHARNESS When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, ...
DAVID MILCH I grew up in Largo and started working at 12 at my father's theater (the Largo Theatre), two blocks ...
GEORGE GLOVER
We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was -... CHRIS HADFIELD My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astr...
NAYVADIUS CASH Jason and I had worked together in the past ... and we ended up working together again at the Arsena...
JUSTIN RAMSEY Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the eq...
COLIN ANGLE Byron came to grad school at the tender age of 43, and had some desire to become a professor and eve...
GEOFF BUMP I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
EMILY ROSSUM I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
EMMY ROSSUM
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,... LAURA DERN
I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I co... AVRIL LAVIGNE
In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space... PETER DIAMANDIS
I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an i... PALMER LUCKEY It is fun to work in the school and I love working with the kids.
JEAN HONL To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working to...
MAURICE YOUNG I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
CHELSEA CAIN
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [Th... ISAAC ASIMOV I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taki...
DAVID ANTIN I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we a...
OMAR DORSEY Teens need a space of their own. So I started working towards putting something together but I didn'...
DENA CREWS My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Ala...
DANA STABENOW
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect... CHRISTA MCAULIFFE When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertatio... JANE MCGONIGAL I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college...
LES BAXTER All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows ho...
ALEX SPANOS I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
NANCY MCKEON I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was worki...
ALBERT GUBAY Working at the high school and dealing with many of the local parents, hopefully, we can take back t...
DEAN WILLIAMS So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ...
PATRICK J. ADAMS I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciti...
AMANDA BURTON Bruno Rossi was a giant at MIT, and as an MIT professor, I am humbled to receive an award named in h...
DEEPTO CHAKRABARTY When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ...
FRANZ WRIGHT I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera ...
ROBERT ASHLEY
Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of th... ARI GRAYNOR My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metrop...
DOUGLASS NORTH
Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was ... ANDREW SHUE
When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chi... PETER DIAMANDIS
My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public char... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I started working as a driver for R and B Distributors. I never finished at Sandburg, but I ended up...
JIM CAHILL I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that j...
MARTHA SHERRILL
Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close fri... NOAH BAUMBACH
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I was in the room with a great actress who had no experience with Cherry?s performance ... and we ju...
DOUG HUGHES
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and thi... PETER MAYLE the opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.
JULIE PAYETTE We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do to...
GUY BURGESS
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundarie... DAVID MACKAY Our goal was to compete with a working robot. We were already victorious when we got there, and we e...
LUIS GUTIERREZ So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started wo...
BILLY SHERWOOD
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, profe... CHRIS NOTH My payroll record says I started in 1952, when I was 12. But I was working in the business before th...
GARY MACHABEE The key to that game was that we started communicating. We got caught up in the atmosphere and it wa...
BRIAN BYRD
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... JOHN WAYNE I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.
BOB CORKER
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo... GEORGE BURNS But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three ye...
ROBERT JAY LIFTON I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gav...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN There's a lot of smaller vendors doing real cutting-edge things and they've become pretty good at wo...
ANNE MANES There's a lot of smaller vendors doing real cutting-edge things and they've become pretty good at wo...
ANNE THOMAS MANES
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut pro... MAE JEMISON
Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has b... MARGHERITA MISSONI
I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill. BEVERLEY MITCHELL I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.
BEVERLY MITCHELL
I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, eithe... GREGORY H. JOHNSON
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas... BETH HENLEY The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the k...
COLIN ANGLE Kellie's got a lot of energy and has a very good people-presence where she's able to work with and m...
DARRELL JACKSON For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him...
KEIR DULLEA
I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Pri... JILL SCOTT Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a sale...
HERB RITTS
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on m... MARLO THOMAS I started off working in the kennels and was assistant lure driver but the bloke who was the driver ...
JIM BAUER I can't imagine anyone working harder. And it was a blast for me. Just working with good players eve...
ANTHONY MUNOZ
In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City... TAMRA DAVIS When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Ande...
IAN GOMEZ I'm just really excited to be working with people who work together for the betterment of a communit...
LORETTA MAYS When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an ent...
WOLF BLITZER When I was working abroad, there was a time when I almost gave up because of my problem with my work...
COCO MARTIN I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in invest...
CAROL ROTH I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being...
DAVID EINHORN He has started work on cleaning up the property. I haven't been out there in a week, but (Underfer) ...
BOB GREEN
As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. Whe... MIRANDA KERR Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films ...
JEFF BRIDGES If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just sta...
DAN WELLS
I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like ... JAMES PATTERSON
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the co... HERMAN CAIN People working in films are somewhat like gypsies: we move from set to set and spent weeks, sometime...
DULQUER SALMAAN We need to have a whole system (of parks) working together instead of a patchwork of individual park...
DWIGHT JOHNSON The Air Force was confused about what it wanted me to be when I grew up. I applied for an ROTC schol...
BRIAN CASTNER I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that...
BILL GOLD It's not what one does for a living but what one does while living that matters in the end.
JAIME CONTRERAS
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