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I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
‐‐ John Boehner

I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.
‐‐ Paulo Costanzo

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.
‐‐ Glenn Tipton

I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
‐‐ Don McCullin

I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.
‐‐ Robert Glasper

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
‐‐ Edgar Winter

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.
‐‐ Eleanor Mondale

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
‐‐ Allison Williams

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
‐‐ Danger Mouse

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.
‐‐ Rodney Atkins

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.
‐‐ Stark Sands

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
‐‐ Vincente Minnelli

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.
‐‐ Matt Ridley

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

I started out wanting to coach football.
‐‐ Lee Majors

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
‐‐ Layne Staley

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.
‐‐ Linden Ashby

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
‐‐ Tananarive Due

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
‐‐ Carlos Alazraqui

I started out with machine code and assembly language.
‐‐ Charles Petzold

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
‐‐ Michael Davis

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
‐‐ James Brolin

I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
‐‐ Mike White

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.
‐‐ Frank Silva

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.
‐‐ John Mackey

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
‐‐ Banksy

I started painting when I was in high school.
‐‐ James Best

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.
‐‐ Kenny Baker

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
‐‐ Missi Pyle

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.
‐‐ Theophilus London

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
‐‐ Zola Jesus

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
‐‐ Bill Cunningham

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.
‐‐ Jacqueline Emerson

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
‐‐ Charlie Puth

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.
‐‐ John Stamos

I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
‐‐ Ted Ligety