I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn’t want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to...

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over...

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don’t watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a...

We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn’t want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but...

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis – when you get to certain parts of Memphis – are more liberal for sure. But I...

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

My father’s from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she’s actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight ,and then moved to Australia with my mother and...

I didn’t write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn’t write or read horror or fantasy, other than children’s fantasy, until I was in my teens.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I...

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can...

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I...

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you’re creating it, and it’s not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in...

If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

Our economy isn’t going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

I will stay in the car until the last minute that I’m going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.

There isn’t any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

It wasn’t until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings – and we will never...

I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater...

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day – the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And...

I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn’t want a child-star model, so I didn’t get into modeling until I was 14.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it’s changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the...

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of...

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I’m a writer-rewriter. I can’t move on until I feel like it’s presentable.

Well, that was certainly – to me, until we could film in Charles’ room, I didn’t even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first...

The reality of Katrina didn’t really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully...

I’ve never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

Machismo requires Latin blood. I’d say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

All writing is the same: It’s just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That’s what I do.