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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. ↗

— Mos Def

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. ↗

— Rita Dove

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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. ↗

— John Eaton

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I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. ↗

— Robin Trower

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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. ↗

— Duke Ellington

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Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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