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When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

I started my career without fans.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.