About a year after he first picked up a broom in that studio, he gets his first big break.

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Much has changed since the day that song was penned, including the very way that kid would have gotten his first big break.

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It was the final episode in a tempestuous partnership with Mancini first having given Balotelli his big break as a raw, but talented 16-year-old at Inter Milan.

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He jokes that his big break came with his first few Myron Bolitar novels, a mystery series starring a Jewish sports agent in New Jersey who solves crimes on the side.

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His big break came at the age of 24 when he earned his first million dollars by selling Hip-hop ring-tones to mobile phone subscribers in the United Kingdom.

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His big break came in the early 1990s when Yusuff Ali timed the opening of his first LuLu supermarket in Abu Dhabi just when the Gulf War was breaking out.

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