Sentences with phrase «first won fame»

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Swift, who won a total of three Grammy during the evening, told the audience, «As the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there: there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.»

His rise to fame and relationship with his first wife, Jane, who was a Christian, was dramatised in a 2014 film, The Theory Of Everything, in which Eddie Redmayne put in an Oscar - winning performance as the physicist battling with a devastating illness.

This win, the 39th of his eventual first - ballot Hall of Fame career, had even more significance.

The swift, Hall of Fame center was a 10 - time Cup - winner and the first player to win the Smythe.

A first - overall pick who won the Rookie of the Year when he was 20, Horner was on a Hall of Fame pace.

The Cubs can tell you something about that, as leads like this one will feel like the setup to a punch line that hasn't been told yet until Chicago manages to actually win it all for the first time since 1908 — especially when their opponent is the Giants of even - year fame.

While he said he hoped his fame as the first organ transplant recipient to win an Olympic medal would «get families talking about organ donation,» he said he never felt any pressure to win to make his ordeal worthwhile.

That night, the legendary bodybuilder Larry Scott won the first Mr. Olympia contest and opened the door of fame for all top level bodybuilders.

William «The Conqueror» Bonac won the 30th Anniversary Arnold Classic at the 2018 Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio in his first professional appearance on the famed Arnold Classic stage.

Born in Berlin in 1931, Nichols began his career as a comedian in the 1950s and first gained fame as part of the comedy duo Nichols and May with Elaine May, winning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1962.

Shaun first appeared in Nick Park's Oscar ™ - winning short A CLOSE SHAVE before finding fame as the star of his very one television series.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame coach — who wasn't even Catholic — took teams to five national championship games, winning her first three years as coach.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

He carries a storied professional racing past that includes driving a Porsche 917K to victory with Hans Herrmann at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970, giving the German company their first overall win at the famed Circuit de la Sarthe.

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The Border Collie didn't become popular until the very end of the 19th century, when they were presented at the first official sheep dog trial placed in Bala, Wales, when Old Hemp won the trial first time in 1984 and continued with his winning prestigious competitions, so we basically have this amazing dog to thank for all the popularity and fame the Border Collie has today.

After checking out a parade (a very common occurrence I was to later learn) and grabbing a roadside cup of chai, I stop at the home of famed poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize, and whose home is a great place to learn about Calcutta's cultural history.

Famed architect Balkrishna Doshi, also known as B.V. Doshi, won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize on Tuesday, making him the first... Read More

Famed for having longest par - three golf hole in the world, luxurious accommodation, the world's first baby rhino orphanage and the «big five» roaming free on its safari conservancy, the award winning Legend Golf & Safari Resort (LGSR) has helped place Limpopo on the golf tourism map.

Eegra: «First Annual Game Makin» Shindig WINNERS ANNOUNCED HOORAY» Conor O'Kane, of «Harpooned» fame, wins out.

The duo - famed for dressing alike and resembling cohabiting bank managers - won for one of their trademark stained glass - inspired psychedelic collages in the second year of the Turner's life (painter Howard Hodgkin won the first).

This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three - hundred - dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood.

With Donald Trump's announcement of his picks for his administration's economic advisors should he win the election this November, the spotlight has been put on the industry that first catapulted Trump to fame: commercial real estate...