Sentences with phrase «who got me started»

Gray, who got his start in Calgary's oil industry as a summer student in the 1950s, saw the situation as an opportunity.

There was a time when Levi, a college dropout who got his start as a stockbroker and the son of a B.C. NDP cabinet minister, seemed to have the Midas touch.

The company's ranks include numerous employees who got their start at the ride - hailing companies Uber and Lyft.

Sarandos, 52, was an ambitious college dropout from Arizona who got his start running a chain of video stores and talked his way into Netflix soon after it was formed, joining in 2000 as vice president of content.

Ric is a veteran journalist who got his start reporting from the tobacco fields of southwestern Ontario, but came to Edmonton in the early 1980s to cover politics and other matters for Alberta Report, where he rose to executive editor, before moving on to senior writing and editing positions with Maclean's Magazine in Toronto and the Globe and Mail in Vancouver.

Mike has crushed it and I'm not sure if it was Joel or I who got him started, but I'm sure he'd attest to the power of that metaphor for getting you to take bold moves.

The Rev. Fred Luter Jr., 55, a New Orleans pastor who got his start preaching on the streets of the Lower Ninth Ward, is expected to be the only candidate for office on Tuesday when Southern Baptists gather here for their annual meeting.

Sophie is a South Australian born chef who got her start working...

It honored the tri-coastal regions where Tunks found his culinary passion and became an incubator for talented, award - winning chefs who got their start working under Tunks» wing.

And it'll be good that it's Cena in there with him, both for historical purposes and the continuation of their feud that's been on ice for years, and the fact we can all trust John to be gentle with a guy who got his start in wrestling two years before I was born.

Tony Clark might yet grow into a fine Executive Director, but in the present, there is work to be done and history to be taught, and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who got his start in MLB's offices in labor negotiations, knew that and struck accordingly at the first opportunity back in 2016.

he didn't do anything at swansea it was martinez who got them started.

While the striker position was a revolving door and who started every week seemingly was a guessing game, the same wasn't said about who got the start between the sticks nearly every game for the now - two - time defending Italian champions.

A Republican who got his start in politics as a village of Tivoli trustee at age 18, Molinaro, now 42, had been widely talked about as a potential GOP challenger to Cuomo, who has said will run for a third term this fall.

The Doe Fund's George McDonald (he's a big Cuomo donor who got his start in Democratic politics working for Sen. Ted Kennedy and was wearing a Kennedy / NY pin on his suit lapel today), state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King (he ran as Andrew Cuomo's LG candidate in 2002), and Paul Francis, a former aide / campaign advisor to ex-Gov.

In addition, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is close to inking a deal with adman Jimmy Siegel, who got his start on Spitzer's 2006 campaign for governor.

A Republican who got his start in politics as a village of Tivoli trustee at age 18, Molinaro, now 42, has been widely talked about as a potential GOP challenger to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

In addition, I'm told the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is close to inking a deal with adman Jimmy Siegel, who got his start on Spitzer's 2006 campaign for governor, as the Dems continue to ramp up their political efforts in preparation for the fall fight to retain the majority.

«At some point we have to move forward, and unless someoneelse is going to get in, we have to move forward with a candidate who get start developing a good campaign operation and raise the money to be in a good position to take Cuomo down,» he added.

Yee, who got his start working on former President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, joined the Manhattan Young Democrats in 2009, where he was instrumental in creating the open seat project.

Kruger and Bruce Bender, a vice president for government relations at FCR, are longtime allies who both got their starts in Southern Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club.

That has begun to change, however, thanks to observers like MIT's Anna Frebel, who got her start in old - fashioned single - star stellar archaeology as an undergraduate in the early 2000s.

First, I learned that I'm not the only one who got started late.

Demi Lovato, who got her start on the Disney Channel and in the movie Camp Rock, is now best known for her music, with hit singles like «Heart Attack» and «Cool for the Sumer.»

I'm a journalist who got his start from a broken heart.

She's the one who got me started on paleo... I do hope someone else benefits from the information you posted!

In September, she became the first female rapper to have a number one single on the Billboard 100 chart since Lauryn Hill in 1998 a feat for any performer, let alone one who got her start via hilarious Vine and Instagram videos and a short - lived role on VH1's Love and Hip - Hop: New York.

List Rules Rock artists who got their start in the 1960s or 70s.

Kevin Bacon is good in the lead, Kathryn Erbe is okay as his wife (and I will admit that I didn't mind her brief nude scene), and I liked Illeana Douglas as the woman who gets it all started.

It's easy enough to appreciate... as a painterly near - documentary, shot and edited by a director who got his start in documentary films... or a spacious moral fable about humility and trust in following the righteous path.

Host David Steinberg interviews the show business legends, lifelong friends who got their start writing for television variety shows and became comedy motion picture directors, each with a string of classic box office blockbusters to his name.

Horowitz and Kitsis, who got their start writing various J.J....

Kaluuya, who got his start on the hit British series «Skins» and is currently filming Marvel's «Black Panther» for «Creed» director Ryan Coogler, delivers a nuanced performance that builds as the dread mounts.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

The road is onlyleading downhill until Blake meets the woman he hopes will save him, and gets aleg up from the country superstar who got started in his band.

The two, who got their start on the Nickelodeon cartoons «The Wild Thornberrys» and «The Angry Beavers», have won over enough influential people to keep rising ranks and getting to work with major talent.

John Hughes, Al Jean, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Landis, Ivan Reitman and John Belushi are just some of the famous names who got their start through something related to the once - popular humor magazine, created in 1970.

A New York City native who got his start shooting commercials, Cimino was tapped by producer - actor Clint Eastwood to make his feature directing debut on Eastwood's 1974 thriller «Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.»

Strong, who got his start as an actor, has become an accomplished writer of both films and television, scoring two Emmy Awards along the way.

That incoming group is now a fifth of the voting membership and can dramatically shift the Oscar race towards films that celebrate young, diverse film - makers — the kind of talents who get their start at Sundance.

It Came from Kuchar (Unrated) Bio-pic recounting the enduring career of twins George and Mike Kuchar, legendary, low - budget filmmakers from the Bronx who got their start in the Fifties shooting movies in the backyard with an 8 mm camera they borrowed from their Aunt.

And The Seventh Python warmly (and rather indulgently) profiles 64 - year - old Neil Innes, who got his start with the wacky Bonzo Dog Doo - Dah Band in the 60s, wrote songs for Monty Python in the 70s, and collaborated with Python's Eric Idle on the Rutles, who parodied the Beatles in the priceless 1978 TV movie The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash.

An Englishman who got his start in the advertising industry and worked for a few years in the...

The goofy guy who got his start on the sketch comedy series In Living Color is now the star of movies like Collateral, Miami Vice, and The Soloist.

Just think of all the people who got their start on In Living Color: J - Lo, Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey, to name a few.

[New York Post] • The this year's Oscar hopefuls who got their starts as child actors.

A few other Bay Area connections include ACT graduate Anika Noni Rose (best featured actress, «Raisin in the Sun»), TheatreWorks mainstay James M. Iglehart (best featured actor in a musical, «Aladdin») and Lena Hall (best featured actress in a musical, «Hedwig»), a Broadway veteran who got her start playing a bonbon in San Francisco Ballet's «Nutcracker» at age 2.

The film was written and directed by Liz W. Garcia, who got her start in the industry writing episodes of «Dawson's Creek» and «Cold Case.»

But Olsen, 22, who got her start on the same TV show («Full House») as her siblings, is the one who did it and has been reaping the rewards.

After a small role in Andrew Niccol's «In Time,» Heathcote, who got her start like so many others on the Aussie soap «Neighbours,» first came to the attention of many as a contender for the lead in «Snow White and the Huntsman.»