#began

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

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I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it. ↗

— Bob Iger

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Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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I began with track and field because this is what I know. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

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The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head. ↗

— John Byng

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I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. ↗

— Ty Cobb

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