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Related When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one d... CHARLIE BEWLEY I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I... CHORD OVERSTREET Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. NEIL PEART I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand... CHORD OVERSTREET The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums... JANET WEISS That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better... CARLTON HILL I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high... ICE CUBE He laid off some pitches to get in some hitting counts, and when he got a pitch to hit, he was on it... MIKE SCIOSCIA After last season, I think that's when Drew really got interested in playing college sports, CHUCK ANDERSON And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that t... BEAU BRIDGES I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK. JEREMY CORBYN Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to p... PARMINDER NAGRA As a boy, I was just intrigued with the whole thing. It got me interested in things about Rochester ... RICH GARDNER I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it. CAITLYN JENNER I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. S... LYNDON JOHNSON I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are ... AARON PATZER Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in ... ANGELA DUCKWORTH I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13. KATHERYN WINNICK I got into Bob Marley, I got into reggae music. And that music just spoke to me and so it just becam... MATISYAHU MILLER I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by p... DRAKE BELL I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s... FIONA GUBELMANN My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i... TONY IOMMI I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did. THERESA MAY I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe... ED O'NEILL One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and order... EMIL ZATOPEK This is the team that took me when probably no one else was interested. Maybe there were other teams... BRETT HULL When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of... PHILIP SELWAY I was nervous before the game. Once I got into the game and started playing, I was good. JAMAR SMITH When we were very, very young, I was actually better than Cate was at swimming, and I was not very h... BRONTE CAMPBELL I don't push my drums down; I go through 'em. I use my body as a battering ram. I had some sports th... GREEN DAY I'm still a bit concerned about his stamina, his durability and getting deeper into the game. We've ... BUDDY BELL A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I cou... JANET WEISS Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people w... ADAM PEATY I'm actually going to go get a workout in, and try to build up some stamina for tomorrow. PHIL MICKELSON I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safet... AUNJANUE ELLIS When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my ey... FETTY WAP When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sport... ERIC SWALWELL I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was inter... GRANT MORRISON I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when ... LANA DEL REY I actually think it's better I started by being close to customers. That foundation early on hel... MIKE DUKE When I got into professional wrestling, I started, and I starved for two years, and I finally got so... STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that p... MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the par... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I started swimming at the age of 8, ... The reason I started swimming was because I had an ankle inj... DAVID PETERSON Obviously, going a mile and a quarter, you try to get those gallops in, which means the longer the b... NICK ZITO I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose... HERBIE HANCOCK I really got into officiating to try and get things organized. I went to the state (officials) organ... PEGGY CORRIGAN Someone said if you want to get faster at mountain biking, get into road biking to build your stamin... RON HIGHT When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then... OTIS BLACKWELL I think the sports actually help me with my schoolwork. I have such a tight schedule that I have to ... CASEY LUTHER I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in ... HALSTON SAGE I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the ... TIPPER GORE But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and... ESTELLE PARSONS A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa... RUSTY ANDERSON When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people ... FRANK BRUNO My kids love it. It was actually them that got me into it. They started coming around and picking up... ANGEL GONZALEZ I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. BRIAN ASHTON I was in grade school when Dad gave me the basics. He does metal work. I got more into the woodworki... BRONSON HOERCHLER You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very... CHARLESZETTA WADDLES You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very ... CHARLESZETTA WADDLES I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, ... MICK FOLEY I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it. YOUNG BUCK I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or t... GRETCHEN REYNOLDS I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got m... DAVID QUAMMEN I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. ... CASSADEE POPE I admire all the cross-country skiers from countries where there is no cross-country skiing. ANDRUS VEERPALU I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started... DOUGLAS BOOTH I actually started when I was 12 years old, that's when my home state of Alabama made it legal to hu... BYRON FERGUSON Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming... CHRIS KLEIN The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart C... TAYLOR HAWKINS I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o... TORI AMOS A few things conspired against me. The club (Lierse) got a new coach and I got a knee injury that si... ARCHIE THOMPSON I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the ga... MICHAEL STRAHAN It was a good race. The car was getting a little slippery at the end. I certainly didn't want to get... EDDIE HOFFMAN He was just real angry, telling me I've got to take more shots when I'm open because I might not get... ALLAN RAY Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was... JOAN ALLEN That time it was so overwhelming. It was surreal. But by the time I got out to the car, it hit me. I... AMY VILLEGAS We've got a pretty good corps of distance runners. We've got two freshmen that weren't out for cross... BARB HEITKA If I have to make a decision later, then I cross that bridge when I get to it. WILLIE EVANS I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And ... NINA DOBREV He was the one who initially got me interested in the subject. I actually have his job now, so it's ... JOSEPH TRAFTON My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started l... DOUG HARVEY When I first started at KJHK it was this exalted entity to me. It was like I had finally found somet... KYLE GARRISON I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND He just came up and started to talk to me. I got slashed on my hand and that's why I was a little bi... HENRIK LUNDQVIST I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland ... KATIE LEDECKY When I first started I only swam during the high school season, so I didn't get much out of it, ... ... CARL MILLER I have good stamina and good endurance. J. R. MARTINEZ I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most gir... CARA DELEVINGNE It got to the point where we doing so much touring and playing, and the money really wasn't coming i... FRANK WATKINS I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being o... BRUCE DICKINSON I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I go... CHARLES MCCARRY There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ... ANDREA SNYDER I think the emotions of the game got to me at first and I was too strong. But after that, I settled ... JOE ALLARIA I did film. For instruments, I played guitar, the piano, the drums -- I just basically dive into mus... BRIAN VILLORIA
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NEIL GAIMAN She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you k... NEIL GAIMAN I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things... NEIL GAIMAN It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire me... NEIL GAIMAN You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a ph... NEIL GAIMAN Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more c... NEIL GAIMAN There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place... NEIL GAIMAN In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt... NEIL GAIMAN The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, ... NEIL PASRICHA Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? NEIL GAIMAN Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi... NEIL GAIMAN Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w... NEIL GAIMAN There's none so blind as those who will not listen. NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u... NEIL GAIMAN There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. NEIL GAIMAN For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of... NEIL GAIMAN She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap... NEIL GAIMAN The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said... NEIL GAIMAN For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ... NEIL GAIMAN It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ... NEIL GAIMAN There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud. NEIL GAIMAN