#began

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

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I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. ↗

— Lance Morrow

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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

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