In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone...

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the...

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Virtually all of Africa’s civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the ’70s.

This is a great time for the ‘guerilla marketer.’ The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and a yellow page ad to get started are gone.

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved...

In primary school I was terrible. I don’t think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me...

At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that’s what I really chased.

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director...

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn’t take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered… Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to...

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

I like to make people laugh. That’s for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of...

And I said – Styx – as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say – this is where so much...

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started ‘Wine Library TV.’ They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers...

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what’s...

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

I didn’t even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can’t forget where you started and came from.

I’m a DJ. I get the party started.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.

I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That’s stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans...

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that’s what really started me off.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, ‘Why do you work? If I were you, I’d just go and lie on...

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late ’60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn’t a great crime reader to begin with.

I’m probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and...

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

When we started the show, ‘Dallas’ was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR’s home town.

Since I started in motor racing I’ve worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

I think international is a place that, actually, The Huffington Post and AOL have started to make moves in.

I think that ‘Mr. Show’ was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter...