At home, I’m lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it’s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they’re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you’re in trouble. Just do what you love. That’s all I want to do.
I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I’m usually one of the first out there on the dance floor.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn’t find my way into the fictional world… When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
I fell in love with Nawaz on-screen after watching ‘Gangs of Wasseypur.’ So my love story starts with him from there. I was quite nervous to act alongside him. He is an excellent actor.
Home is where one starts from.
I was fortunate to be born when I was. There’s been a massive rise in British cycling since I joined the junior programme when I was 17. It all started in 2004 when Chris Hoy won gold for the 1 km. time trial in Athens; when one person starts doing well, they take everyone with them.
The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president’s options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
It doesn’t matter where one starts from; it doesn’t matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference.
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
It starts with a single sound. If there’s something in that sound, then it’s worth continuing.
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.
When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth… that’s an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem.
It’s good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it’s all good.
We’re not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We’re living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it’s about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.
Who’s to say where funny stops and ‘too far’ starts?
Everything that can be associated to ideas, inventions, copyrights, and patents is part of the IP world – at least, that’s my definition. That all starts with people. Education is key.
The centerpiece of ‘Law and Order’ is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There’s a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.
A typical day in my writing life starts with looking at pictures of real estate online for at least 20 minutes. If I happen to be actually in the market for a house, I do this for 40 minutes. Then I walk my dog, come back home, and tell myself I can look at real estate for another five minutes.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you’re born and continues until the end.
Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
I’m a songwriter; that’s where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I’ll play music for my fans as long as they’ll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry – a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language – and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.
Everything I make starts very personally.
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage – an Irish grandparent, say – but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
I don’t like plots. I don’t know what a plot means. I can’t stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning – you know, ‘beginning, middle and end.’
For me, it’s sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It’s about who owns what, who gets what? So what’s the point?
It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
‘James and the Giant Peach’ magnificently starts out Dahl’s career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.
You’ll be offered the ‘lead’ in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, ‘a fabulous part’ – a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren’t many of those.
But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it’s less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, ‘I know what I like doing and that’s what I’m going to do.’
Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we’ve also got to focus on many, many people – for them, life starts with a good job.
Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn’t taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that’s loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.
Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there’s no place better to enjoy some frothy caffeine than at the Bulgari Hotel.
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.
The marathon always starts after 30K. That’s where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it’s possible to have pain even in the finger.
My physical preparation for a series starts at least 10, 15 days before it begins, but mentally around a month before I start visualising things as to which bowling attack I will be facing, the conditions I will encounter and other things.
The electoral system is not where change starts – it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up – but it is where change can be stopped.
There’s just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, ‘That’s a great song! Who is it by?’
The appetite starts with the eye.
I fell asleep during ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ I fell asleep during ‘The Hunger Games,’ all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I’m asleep!
I’ve never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
My character in ‘Running With Scissors’ is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
When you’re doing a medieval show like ‘Pillars,’ it starts off a bit like a school play. You’re all in funny costumes; you’ve had your coffee, and you say, ‘Good morning’. Then you go on set and, if you’ve got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That’s when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn’t feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
