In 2002, she gave up her symbols of the American dream, selling her home and car.
Grace Kelly was 26 when she gave up acting to become Princess Grace of Monaco.
As a single mother, in her forties, she gave up men for a while.
She gave up working on it, scholars believe, when the story started to strike a bit too close to home.
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She gave up the well paid "boring" job in her hometown of Berkeley, California, for a full-time job with The Idea Village.
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And though she gave up swimming, she never gave up her active lifestyle, running, cycling and playing tennis at a pace most 20-year-olds couldn't maintain.
As Burton became more successful, she gave up her career to travel to Switzerland and then America for her husband to pursue his film career.
Kael wrote quickly and at length, regularly pulling all-nighters into her Tuesday deadlines with the help of cigarettes and bourbon (till she gave up both).
In addition to leaving her law job, she gave up an apartment overlooking the Hudson and sank all of her saving into launching the startup.
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Mrs Coulter was so traumatised by the attack that she gave up her home where she had lived for several years to move in with her daughter.
Bim got involved in running Playhouse, a pre-school started by her sister in Delhi, but that was always a part-time activity which she gave up only last year.
Then she gave up, and took the fertility drug Clomid.
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She gave up her housecleaning work and eventually became bedridden.
Following two weeks in the Abbeycare residential alcohol treatment centre in Ayrshire in 2005, she gave up alcohol completely and now works as an addiction support worker for Abbeycare.
She replaced a part of the income she gave up after leaving her job as a chartered accountant in a finance company, without losing any of the time with her family.
The little girl became so exhausted just unwrapping gifts that she actually gave up.
She also gave up collecting airline miles completely, switching her credit card to cash-back rewards.
One woman was arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after she gave herself up to officers.
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She had majored in psychology and won a research fellowship at Berkeley, though she gave it up when her boyfriend felt overshadowed.
Suarez said she spent hours trying to persuade the agent to open the door and pay her, but she finally gave up around 10 a.m.
In the end, no money was left and the truck stop was an albatross for my sister, who faced impossible odds before she eventually gave up.
She then gave up her posts in both the MKO's military wing - the NLA - and the MKO proper, leaving leadership of the latter to her husband.
Ms Slaughter used to be a senior official in the State Department, a job she recently gave up in order to spend more time with her children and return to academia.
And despite her desire to keep her coverage, despite her fears that she would get sick and lose the home that her parents built -- she finally surrendered, she finally gave up her health insurance.
It was my stepmother, Janey Hovenden, who really had the hardest time when my father was suffering from ALS. For three years, she juggled work, my dad and me with virtually no breaks, but she never gave up.
That said, she has failed to live up to the billing she gave herself in the build-up to the Games.
"Cheered by her crew as she swam toward the side of her escort boat, Voyager, for a feed this morning, she gave the thumbs up" and asked how the crew was doing, according to her blog.
At the end of the discussion last night, she reached up and gave her father a kiss.
Ms. Linkfield, who also confesses she has a text-message alert that whistles ("I was getting dirty looks" for that, she says), gave up on the line's Quiet Commute cars.
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