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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

~Caleb Landry Jones

Topics: Angeles Began Brothers Changed Country Earned Exorcism Last Left Life Like Los Los Angeles Men Moved Movies My Life No Country Old Old Men Roles Small Successful Texas

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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Action Began Call Christianity Discipline Farmers Fishermen Great Kind Lure Poor Religion Rigor Shepherds Simplicity

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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: American Assertive Began Both British Canada Encounter English Immigrants Intellectual Maintain North North American Plain Pragmatic Protestant Romanticism Scottish Style Tradition

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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: About Began How People Should

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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

~Camille Pissarro

Topics: Age Around Began Forty Know Only Sensations Understand Vaguely Wanted

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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

~Candice Millard

Topics: Adventure Amazon Began Book Courage Descent Doubt Exploration Extraordinary First River Roosevelt Story Tale Tells Theodore Thought Which Work

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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Bedtime Began Brothers Came Children Classic Down Every Fairy Fairy Tales Fast Gentle Kids Knows Like Lines Pace Pages Paragraphs Parent Praise Read Reading Slow Spark Stories Tales Through Too Used Whole Would

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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

~Carlos Slim

Topics: Began Investments Make Maybe Very Well Years Young

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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

~Carlos Slim

Topics: Began Investments Make Maybe Very Years Young

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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

~Carlton Cuse

Topics: Accepted Began Comments End Ended Ending Every Feed Fifteen Finale Get Going Knew Lost Loved Negative Positive Possible Stand Still Story Ten Toward Twitter Universally Wanted Way Working

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