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I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.


Joe Shuster
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
Paolo Bacigalupi
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.


Joe Biden
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
Kate DiCamillo
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
Al Yankovic
When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.
Warwick Davis
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I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.
David Thewlis
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The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
Charlton Heston
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I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
Donna Edwards
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I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.


Jim Lehrer
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
David Copperfield
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I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.


Roald Hoffmann
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I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.


Greta Scacchi
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My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.


Kevin McCarthy
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
Alberto Manguel
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Imelda Staunton
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I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.
Craig Ferguson
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.


Viktor Yanukovych
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I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
Jerry Della Femina