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SELENA GOMEZ When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG I controlled the whole match. It was a good match to end my career on. JACK MERITT I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w... PATRICK DUFFY When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the pr... GEORGE TAKEI My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to... KIRK DOUGLAS My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave ... RON MOODY They key was getting the first takedown against him. It was a great way to cap off my career because... CHAD VALLONE My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 o... DANIEL BRUHL I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting... IKE BARINHOLTZ My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm ve... OONA CHAPLIN But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happene... VANESSA FERLITO I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened. MAIDIE NORMAN At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-kno... SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT I was sadder for the actors than I was for me because when you do good work in this industry, you ge... JOEL SCHUMACHER It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b... RICHARD GERE Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was... EDEN SHER When he went to UK it was a hard adjustment for him. It was hard for him to go from star to freshman... LACEY SIMS I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw... JANE MARCH I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and cam... FRANK ABAGNALE I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the sc... RAY LIOTTA First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to a... EDMUND WHITE The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'O... SANDRA OH I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a goo... DOROTHY MOORE When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the w... EMILY BERRINGTON I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as pe... RON MOODY I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went... IMELDA STAUNTON I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun... CHARLES SOULE Even though I wrestled Ric Flair very early on in my career, it was a short match, so getting to wre... SHAWN MICHAELS With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next j... WILLIAM SHATNER I notice how well or badly a guy treats a waiter, or whether he's kind to some people and not to... SARAH WYNTER It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. DOLLY PARTON 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso... MICHAEL KORYTA I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... DAISY RIDLEY I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the Play... REGGIE BUSH When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was... PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside ... JAMES NESBITT I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business Sc... FRANK QUATTRONE 'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really bi... MISTY COPELAND I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe... CAROLL SPINNEY My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... PRINCE I was a little aggressive. My New Jersey rudeness came out a little. I just had the worst cotton-mou... CHRIS KENNY I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it wo... JENNIFER GARNER If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and tol... PHIL NIEKRO I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometime... SAM WATERSTON When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a ... AL YANKOVIC Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Holl... JON FAVREAU When I met him I saw a well-mannered kid with raw basketball ability who at the same time was strugg... JACK RINGEL My whole family came out to watch me after being with him last night and told me to win it for him. ... KATIE DALY My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story t... JUAN PABLO DI PACE I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all... REBEL WILSON The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my dicti... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ It was a great feeling (to sit out) because I didn't feel good at all, ... I was telling Coach when ... ALLEN IVERSON That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typec... BERT LAHR When I go see him, I talk to him through a glass window, and it's hard to talk to somebody like that... CLINTON SOLOMON It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my c... ADRIAN TOMINE So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to... JON CROSBY I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I lo... KEIR GILCHRIST I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE It was good for him to go up there because Florida has two submariners and he throws it as well. So ... JEFF LAING In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a w... CHINUA ACHEBE When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,... TODRICK HALL When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I us... MARK HAMILL He had a heck of game. He's the first kid I've told I was going to take out for not shooting. Today ... GARY CASTINE He was upset because he thought I was going there and I did give him my word on that. AARON HERNANDEZ When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my bod... ALEXANDRE PATO When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It wa... RAINE MAIDA I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be ... LEO VARADKAR I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond... PATRICK STEWART I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out... DOUG HARVEY Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Acade... SALLY KELLERMAN I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career . . . he gave ... DENIS ISTOMIN I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career . . . he gav... DENIS ISTOMIN I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career. ... He gave m... DENIS ISTOMIN I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career
he gave me ... DENIS ISTOMIN I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career ... he gave me... DENIS ISTOMIN I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had ... KAREN JOY FOWLER
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HAYEK ...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that... F.A. HAYEK It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and unders... F.A. HAYEK Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservatio... F.A. HAYEK The mind cannot foresee its own advance. F.A. HAYEK Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in fin... F.A. HAYEK ...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we indivi... F.A. HAYEK The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought diff... F.A. HAYEK Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, ... F.A. HAYEK Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of a higher entity called soc... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history h... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guara... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason r... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK Our alternative is either to stick to a moral tradition which we haven FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK There are no better terms available to describe The difference between the approach of the natural a... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the se... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it als... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ... FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsc... FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, ... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, ... FRIEDRICH A. 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