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I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#atheist #became #because #being #comfortable

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#artist #before #came #cd #chicks

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. ↗

— John Grisham

#after #around #been #fiction #five

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#earn #full #getting #got #had

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#act #acting #always #applied #became

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that. ↗

— John Hume

#bit #difference #difficulties #grateful #i

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded. ↗

— Donny Most

#belief #founded #had #i #i always

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#commercials #did #i #lot #out

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i