When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth
When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the people of NY-20: I wanted to be a representative for the people and shed some light on their government, so I became the first member of Congress to post my schedule, my financial disclosures and my earmark requests all online.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand
When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such a nice vibe.
‐‐ Kyla Reid
When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.
‐‐ Tara Brach
When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
‐‐ Bob Harper
When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.
‐‐ Amanda McBroom
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
‐‐ Alicia Keys
When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.
‐‐ Tyler Oakley
When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars', people were really shocked and surprised.
‐‐ Jerry Springer
When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene.
‐‐ Heidi Murkoff
When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.
‐‐ Nevil Shute
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
‐‐ Charisma Carpenter
When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.
‐‐ Alexandra Daddario
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
‐‐ Christine Lahti
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
‐‐ Mandy Moore
When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
‐‐ Edgar Winter
When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire
When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.
‐‐ John Tesh
When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'
‐‐ Judy Blume
When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.
‐‐ Rick Gonzalez
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland
When I was five I had violin lessons.
‐‐ Randy Bachman
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!
‐‐ Logan Lerman
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
‐‐ Tony Visconti
When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.
‐‐ Jencarlos Canela
When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.
‐‐ Phil Collins
When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
‐‐ Dario Argento
When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne
When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
‐‐ Debra Wilson
When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
‐‐ Chandra West
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
‐‐ Garry Marshall
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
‐‐ Robert Pattinson
When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
‐‐ Luke Evans
When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.
‐‐ Michael Fassbender
When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.
‐‐ Richard Branson
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
‐‐ Alexander Skarsgard
When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.
‐‐ Dinah Shore
When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.
‐‐ Tony Fadell
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.
‐‐ Emilia Fox
When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'
‐‐ Charlie Haden
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner
When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman
When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of 'Cinderella' or 'Sleeping Beauty' was taking place right in my own neighborhood.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
‐‐ Cy Coleman
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
‐‐ Yoko Ono
When I was four years old, some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.
‐‐ David Bolinsky
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
‐‐ Rihanna
When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.
‐‐ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes