#began

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#began #century #grandiose #idea #inspiration

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#bands #began #choirs #church #clarinet

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view. ↗

— Glenn Beck

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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. ↗

— Martha Beck

#began #fell #fix #helping #helping people

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. ↗

— Boris Becker

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I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. ↗

— Michael Bergin

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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#born #by the time #character #clothes #dressed

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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