First of all, Greece won’t go down. We’re talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action,...

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don’t think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean,...

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that’s when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to...

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

if you begin, you win.

Suppose it’s your last day on earth. Have you done what all you wanted to do, you always dreamt of? If answer is NO, your time starts now.

If you’re not connected emotionally to a story, then you’re dead. You’re really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I didn’t start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I’ll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

I’m ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that’s the aim with Tottenham – to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

Be confident and courageous when you are about to make a start. Courage is key!

What should be standing in the shoes of passion, and be walking on the plans of action is sitting in the ink on the papper. Why? Because of the fear to start.

Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those...

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I’m just ready to start.

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn’t start pursuing acting until I was 17.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, ‘Oh, he’s hitting on me.’ Maybe he’s just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

If you start studying history closer, you’ll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people – to convince the people that they’re under attack in some way so that...

A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or...

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn’t understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable – say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls – I wouldn’t go there. An ‘idea,’ especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be...

‘Homeland’ really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what’s kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their...

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days...

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn’t start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved...

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

Getting our military back on stable footing won’t happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

Every big castle was once started with a single block; despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it’s time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

The End is not only an End,This is the Beginning of a new Start.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man’s gig. It’s emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and...

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat – in honor of my father – when I’m impatient. It’s very charming.

I can’t even be around children. It’s a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

I met some fans who said, ‘Please start Twittering!’ They even walked me through it, but I’m terrible at it. I’m so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I’m...

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that’s what I really loved about ‘King Kong.’

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: ‘OK, if you didn’t have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?’ That’s kind of how I’m starting to think.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some...

That’s the thing: once it’s in their hands, it’s not my book anymore, it’s theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how...

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.

Money isn’t everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

I’m not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I’ve just decided to be non-political and very, very...