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  • Albert Einstein When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jeanette Winterson When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
    Source: The Passion (2007) 154
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Billy Beane When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Billy Campbell When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Byron Howard When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Ben Chaplin When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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  • Blair Redford When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
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  • Camille Guaty When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
    Camille Guaty
     
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Adam Sandler When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Ben E. King When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Bubba Watson When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Hader When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Brad Wenstrup When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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