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HANKUS NETSKY I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until...
MAIKA MONROE I knew him because he used to teach me when I first started (boxing).
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HANKUS NETSKY All of a sudden, instead of 100 or 200 people in the audience we were playing for 1,000 to 2,000 peo...
HANKUS NETSKY People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I k...
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HANKUS NETSKY It seems like she grew up speaking Yiddish. It's really part of her life, like if she did not do thi...
HANKUS NETSKY
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I w... YANI TSENG A nurse asked me how far along I was, and when I told her, she said I was looking big for someone wh...
HEATHER TSILIMOS I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them,...
MICHAEL PENA When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to...
ZHANG JINDONG
Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late ... RON PERLMAN
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I h... JIM HARRISON
I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a litt... KEVIN MCCARTHY I was willing to take a chance if they were willing to take a chance on me.
BRIAN BICKFORD
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY
When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would b... BRIAN GRAZER I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfri...
JASON REITMAN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX
When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfrien... LUIS SUAREZ I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o...
OTTO PREMINGER
When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented... WENDY KOPP I started acting professionally at age 19.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old...
JOE ADAMS I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of ...
TOM WALSH My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight...
BIRDY My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
VALENTINO GARAVANI My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA When the company first got started, we were in my mom and dad's house, in 1973, and the office was i...
DAVID JAMES
When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dr... RAINI RODRIGUEZ
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the c... KATY PERRY When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to ...
BEN MARCUS We all started somewhere. When I started teaching at the university level, I didn't want to teach fr...
GERALD VEASLEY When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that's when I really started to shine an...
PAYAL KADAKIA Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken b...
CHEECH MARIN My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
TAYLOR CALDWELL I dedicate this semester to Brittany. The moment when it started to hit me was when I sat in my car,...
ERIC WISE I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties...
RAOUL PECK
I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap. AARON NEVILLE
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and s... CANDACE BUSHNELL
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to... BILLY JOEL
When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What mak... LINDSEY STIRLING I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and w...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY I started growing it in eighth grade because somebody told me to. After I cut it, my mom was stunned...
JAMES LARSON
I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto... CHRIS ROCK 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I starte...
FANTASIA BARRINO Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit r...
GARY NUMAN I just started being more aggressive in the second half. The point guards were finding me and I was ...
BRANDON RUSH My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first sh...
JASON REITMAN I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, to...
GEORGE BEST
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all... VAN MORRISON
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my... KEVIN SPACEY
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge... KURT RUSSELL He was the kind of principal who always knew your name. He was always willing to do more than just t...
CHARLENE MCGRIFF When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so exc...
CARLY CRAIG
Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by th... CLIFF RICHARD When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER
From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life st... ALICIA SILVERSTONE
That was my greatest achievement because I was just a 19-year-old boy who thought dreams could never... GEORGE FOREMAN
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St.... TADASHI SHOJI Every night I was in the hospital, my family read it to me. My Aunt June started crying when she hea...
JUSTIN WERNKE
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to...
DAVID JAY My fascination with ancient Rome started as a kid back in Texas when my father turned me on to Rober...
PETER WELLER It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to ...
DAVE HOLLAND When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forge...
HATTIE MCDANIEL I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO
I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no ... DIERKS BENTLEY I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my...
PORTIA DE ROSSI I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a... LANCE GROSS Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. C...
STEPHEN COLLETTI For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and ...
ADAM SILVERA I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,
DAVID GOWER My costumes are the same measurements they were when I was 19, 20 years old. I eat pizza and ice cre...
CHARO
Everyone here has always treated me like thier daughter. It doesn't matter who it is, and it was eve... SHANNON MILLER Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every ra...
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends...
DARREN ROBINSON My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN With everything else that's happened to me, it was a pretty dumb injury. We were celebrating in the ...
ADRIAN PETERSON
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ... EDEN HAZARD
When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the ti... ZOE KAZAN He never indicated to us that he was willing to teach the class. He is one of the few people in Sout...
DAVID MATTHEWS
When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and deje... KANGANA RANAUT
I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I ... JOHAN CRUYFF
I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when ... EMERIL LAGASSE
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I h... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
I thought that was normal. I thought you were born knowing what you wanted to do, ... So I couldn't ... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always... GEORGE SEATON My goal when I started was to play arenas with just my accordion.
CORN MO It was imperative when I started my training to have a teacher who would really look after whatever ...
BRYN TERFEL I started by myself. I wish I had someone to help me when I got started. Having someone who knows ho...
BRIAN MEYERS I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.
REBBECCA RAY
