I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles
I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.
‐‐ Jerry Yang
I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.
‐‐ Peter Krause
I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.
‐‐ Jai Courtney
I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg
I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old.
‐‐ Tora Berger
I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio
I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
‐‐ Coolio
I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
‐‐ Zac Posen
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
‐‐ Aarti Sequeira
I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa
I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse
I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!
‐‐ Leila Aboulela
I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.
‐‐ Joel Siegel
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland
I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.
‐‐ Emily Procter
I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.
‐‐ Jose Andres
I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.
‐‐ Harley Viera-Newton
I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.
‐‐ Caroline Sunshine
I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli
I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.
‐‐ Kyle Abraham
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'
‐‐ Stanley Donen
I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.
‐‐ Alyson Stoner
I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.
‐‐ Jacob Artist
I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.
‐‐ Sutton Foster
I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia
I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
‐‐ Daphne Zuniga
I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
‐‐ Rachel Nichols
I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.
‐‐ Tony Fadell
I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers
I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.
‐‐ Shai Agassi
I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.
‐‐ Joshua Bell
I started directing on 'The Wire.'
‐‐ Anthony Hemingway
I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.
‐‐ Spike Jonze
I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'
‐‐ Kurtis Blow
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
‐‐ Donald Glover
I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.
‐‐ Jimmy Kimmel
I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.
‐‐ Robert Pattinson
I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan
I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
‐‐ Lynda Barry
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
‐‐ Robin Williams
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
‐‐ H. Jon Benjamin
I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks
I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.
‐‐ Dominique McElligott
I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
‐‐ Daniel Breaker