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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.