I didn’t go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn’t pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn’t even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts...

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.

Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It’s when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It’s just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other,...

I don’t think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don’t know what’s going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I’m like, ‘Really? I came to grad school; I’m going to do the ‘Respect for Acting’?’ And I realized the...

The drawing of a ‘Pipeline Wave’ started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My ‘Pipeline Wave’ drawing later became the start of my ‘Waterworks Collection’ for gallery prints.

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn’t see. It’s amazing. It’s a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. ‘Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!’...

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone’s got lovely teeth, so you don’t want to smile. Everyone’s ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what’s going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep...

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you...

I didn’t start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

I think an artist’s true worth comes through an inter-generational thing – when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

Friends are only friends when the fights don’t matter because you understand each other better in the end.

I watched ‘E.T.’ when I was a kid every day. Well, not all of it every day; I’d pause it and start over again. But I’ve watched ‘E.T.’ about 400 times in my life.

I’m one of 3; I have a 16-year-old sister and an 11-year-old brother. We’re all very close. We’re an interesting family, and we moved a lot when I was younger. I feel like we are...

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which...

And we all end up where we started

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people’s attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

If we want to get beyond this whole I’m-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they’re going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

‘Miracle at St. Anna.’ I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, ‘You start this film off and you end this film....

I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.

When I start working on a batch of tunes – like roughly 10 solid tunes – I always know there’ll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time...

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium,...

People start talking about you and spreading false information, and it can really affect your spirit. So faith is very important to me.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do...

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to...

When you start working on a series, it’s almost too much work. It’s like a movie a week.

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

It’s really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that’s much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started.

I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

And that’s one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don’t try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from...

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, ‘Okay, this is the...

Got an idea to start”, “Thinking to start” and “Making a commitment to start” is one aspect of life.Actually “Starting” what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.

We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the “where” and “how”; not much of how we started...

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I’m doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut...

With Saturday morning cartoons, you’ve got to start at 6 A.M., right?

We’ve found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs...

We’ll go on the river. He looked at the old railroad tracks. Or we’ll go that way. Or we’ll walk on the highways now, and we’ll have time to put things into ourselves. And some...

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, ‘What would make this service better for you?’ As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it’s done...

When you get to know me, I don’t despair – I just get up, clean up, and start again.