All Quotes

I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
‐‐ Hannah Mills

I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
‐‐ Sam Kinison

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.
‐‐ Rick Scott

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.
‐‐ Yani Tseng

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.
‐‐ Kay Granger

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
‐‐ Ron White

I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story.
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.
‐‐ Ron Conway

I started Shutterstock out of my own need. I'd previously created a few software companies, and each time, I struggled to find affordable images to use on my websites.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.
‐‐ Kimberly Caldwell

I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'
‐‐ Rain Phoenix

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
‐‐ Emmy Rossum

I started singing because I come from Wales.
‐‐ Bryn Terfel

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.
‐‐ Jidenna

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.
‐‐ Andrae Crouch

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.
‐‐ Imelda May

I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.
‐‐ David Crosby

I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
‐‐ Rachel Tucker

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
‐‐ Georgia Holt

I started singing the second I could utter sound.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'
‐‐ Tory Lanez

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

I started singing when I started talking.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.
‐‐ Bellamy Young

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
‐‐ K. D. Lang

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.
‐‐ Shani Davis

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.
‐‐ Sarah Hughes

I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around.
‐‐ Tony Hawk

I started skating when I was six years old.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
‐‐ Vanessa Mae

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

I started slow, and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I started small with commercials and print.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.
‐‐ Jennifer Ehle

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.
‐‐ Janis Ian

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.
‐‐ Jill Greenberg

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
‐‐ Ed Gamble