Starting Quotes

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with ‘The Fighter,’ there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

The coolest thing, too, is that people that have never even seen ‘One Tree Hill’ tell me, ‘I love your music.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, do you watch the show?’ And they say ‘No.’ And to me that’s even cooler because that means I’m actually starting to get country fans.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I’m starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There’s a family dynamic in making a television show that you don’t get on a movie, where you’re a hired gun for a few months.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That’s why ‘average is over.’

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

I was never a joiner. I tried – I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago… I guess I wasn’t a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I’m still here – but I’m only a binge socialite.

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

It’s all about starting momentum, hitting the ground running, and starting out hot.

When you are a starting Real Madrid player, you have to think big. Think of the Ballon d’Or, FIFA‘s World XI.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did ‘Celebrity Apprentice‘ with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

I don’t have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I’m one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.

I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I have the fattest face.’ Now I look at those pictures and I think, ‘So much collagen!’

I’ve made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It’s wonderful. What I’ve always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I’m just starting to get that, and it’s really lovely.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you’re not good at guitar.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early – I’ve been singing since I was four.

The first ‘Monsters, Inc.’ represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it’s the sound of death approaching. Hoovering’s OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he’s still the person I show pages to.

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it’s so incestuous that it’s starting to kill itself.

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It’s like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o’clock in the morning, including Christmas.

I write plays, and I have a musical that’s starting to get produced now. That’s what I would love to do, but it’s so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I’m in movies.

I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the ’70s, in all kinds of styles. I worked with all kinds of people when I was just starting out: I was incredibly lucky.