Bad Beginnings - Celebrities and how they succeeded in life

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Across
  1. 5. Oprah Winfrey's mother was working as a housemaid in ... Mississippi, somewhere in the countryside.
  2. 6. Hawking came down with ... His lungs became red and swollen.
  3. 8. Jay Z attended high school, but he never ... A high school diploma was not something he needed to start his career in the music industry.
  4. 11. He is the main source for ... details about his life.
  5. 13. Despite all the hardships, his mother did her best to ... for the family.
  6. 15. Stephen Hawking received 12 ... degrees.
  7. 16. Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Hawking and Jay Z have one thing in common. They all had to overcome .... during their lives to succeed.
  8. 18. Disney was a high school ... at sixteen.
  9. 20. Hawking avoided emotional ... by taking new interest in his studies and his research.
  10. 21. Gun crime and drug-dealing were certainly both ... , typical, very common in the housing estate where he was raised.
  11. 22. Jay Z, for instance, was born on the wrong side of the ...
Down
  1. 1. By the mid-170s his speech became .... Only his family could understand him.
  2. 2. Walt Disney and Jay Z never achieved ... level education.
  3. 3. Stephen Hawking ... upon his career as a researcher in cosmology.
  4. 4. Jay Z had an ... start in life because he was raised in a poor neighbourhood of Brooklyn. His early life showed signs that he won't be successful in life.
  5. 7. Roc-A-Fella Records was his own record ... he started with a couple of his friends.
  6. 9. Soon his career ... off and he could build a massive business empire.
  7. 10. Jay Z lived in a publicly owned .... estate.
  8. 12. The disease he was diagnosed with is called ALS, which is an abbreviation for ... Lateral Sclerosis. This disease causes loss of muscle control and it gets worse over time.
  9. 14. An incision was made into his trachea through the neck to assist breathing.
  10. 17. Now, Jay Z is one of the most successful ... in the music industry.
  11. 19. These celebrities weren't born with a ... spoon in their mouth.