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• Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Started
  • Turn Back

• When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

  

  Riaad Moosa
  • Talking
  • Around
  • Influenced

• When I started, I had that naïve mentality that you shouldn't have to dress celebrities if your product is good. But when you're an emerging brand and you don't have millions for advertising and marketing, it's a good vehicle to penetrate the demographic that doesn't read GQ - or Interview. But if they see Milo Ventimiglia in one of my leather jackets in Us Weekly, that's a new audience for me.

  

  Simon Spurr
  • Audience
  • Advertising
  • Started

• I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Started
  • Pulled

• I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again.

  

  Dan Stuart
  • People
  • Found
  • Ended

• Then I started feeling better. There were all these things I could do.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Things
  • Started

• But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Long
  • Started
  • Unfound

• Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.

  

  Mohammad bin Salman
  • Government
  • Because
  • Failed

• I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit adolescence around 14, I sorta liked girls, so drums became more of a passion, and I started playing in bands.

  

  Mitchell Joachim
  • Passion
  • Around
  • Became

• I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

  

  Richard Serra
  • Working
  • Started

• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Started
  • Messages
  • Defenders

• When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of 'Cats.' And I was, like, absolutely silent - which for a 3-year-old never happens - and I turned to her and said, 'I need to do this.' That's when I started my performer journey.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Production
  • Touring
  • Performer

• I wisely started with a map.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Started
  • Map

• I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Started
  • Worked
  • Nashville

• I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Thinking
  • Distance
  • Leaving

• I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

  

  Rila Fukushima
  • Interested
  • Modeling
  • Videos

• When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of a 'Kelly Clarkson circa 2008,' kind of big-brassy, guitar-pop, rock song. I was like, 'I can do this. I can make pop songs.' It was bad.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Records
  • Started
  • Produced

• I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • People
  • Started

• I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up your reputation. It was a slow process.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Reputation
  • Started
  • Comics

• I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Feel
  • Scared
  • Started

• I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

  

  Mike Binder
  • Done
  • Career
  • Anger

• Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Look
  • Films
  • Actress

• I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Interested
  • Started
  • Dancer

• In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

  

  Ray Liotta
  • Started
  • Shakespeare
  • Musicals

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