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I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

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

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.