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Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

I started in this business on soap operas.

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.