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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

College Coltrane Influence Jazz
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I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

About Ahead Always Anticipate
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
Am Capture Get Going
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Comic ComicStrips Drawing Funny
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Leaning Started Sunlight Toward
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Ball Ball Player Dad He
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All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

Always Archery Back Black
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Ancient Been Day Grade
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
Anthropology Society works People put
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Become Comedy Doing Had
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

Bleak Days Doing Some
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When I started music, I did not know my songs would become evergreen.

Started music Songs Evergreen
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I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

Actually Because Doing Ethiopia
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When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Started Watch Films Movies
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In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Before Insanity Interested Late
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I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

Am Aspect Celebrity Cooking
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I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Am Another Begun Engaged
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

About Eight Playing Started
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When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

Became California Earth Friends
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

Became Believed Cause Couple
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When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

Club Corner Field Grass
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Different Directing Narrative Piece
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I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I'm extra cautious because no one knows what they're doing half the time. You don't know what this guy is going to do or that one.

Around Because Bit Cautious
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I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

About Being Deciding DNA
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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

About Based Film Film School
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Animal Consider Fall Farm
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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Being Could Out Pretending
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I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.

Stopped focusing People Different Treating
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One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

Started playing League Friendly Dominate
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I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Social disease Go out Every night Stay home
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I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Just glad Return Innocence Beauty
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I started this mindset change thinking approach was to give young people the opportunity to self belief in thier abilities to become solution providers.

Mindset change Thinking approach To give Young people
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I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Stopped hating Just being Whole life Defensive person
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If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

Giving people They like I'll turn Into one
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I stopped fighting to meet public expectations of me. I stopped fighting for my right with stupid people. I left such fight for those who have nothing else to fight for.And I started fighting for my vision , my dreams, my ideas and my destiny.

Stopped fighting Public expectations My right My vision
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The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful.Some fights are not worth your time .

The day Gave up Small fights Started
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I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Stressed out The time Thought winning Was important
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When I started music, all I knew was I wanted to sing. I just wanted my voice to be heard. But now, music is so much more for me, its more than just making my voice heard. Its more about inspiring, elevating, uplifting, influencing, encouraging and telling different beautiful stories.

Started music I wanted To sing About inspiring
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Slowing my life down changed my perspective. I stopped existing in other peoples expectations and I started LIVING in the moment and having gratitude for everything that life presents, good and bad.

Slowing My life Down change My perspective
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done

Writing Poem Think World
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God, as I start my second term as President of the African Development Bank, I humble myself before you. I ask that you will grant me wisdom and that Africa will thrive and prosper. Make Africa shine.

God I start Second term Humble myself
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It wasn't until I started reading ... that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Reading Happy Life Like
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Satoshi started a fire in cyberspace. While the fearful run from it and fools dance around it, the faithful feed the flame, and dream of a world bathed in the warm glow of cyberlight.

Satoshi Cyberspace Fearful The flame
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