In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.
My favourite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.
The mind starts to do things that you didn’t even realize it could do. I suppose it’s the manipulation. I suppose it’s the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
I wrote ‘Black Deutschland’ very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.
All serious daring starts from within.
Drama starts where logic ends.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent – substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.
I can’t know entirely what’s at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it’s something very serious.
The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that’s happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they’re in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By the time they’re in college, they’ve had it a lot of their life.
There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you’ve got to step up to the plate when the need arises.
Seven innings, three starts in a row, that’s an improvement for me, and that’s what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.
It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I’m there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, ‘Okay, the world’s not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?’
I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you’re no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.
Well, I write a lot of poetry – that’s where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me – love, loss, heartbreak – all of that good stuff!
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what’s interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It’ll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It’s about what goes on before the movie starts.
All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That’s why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.
I thought I would be a dramatic actor – everyone starts that way.
I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren’t working and work through them to a new place of change.
Catman – what I really like about him is he’s a really grounded character in terms of – he’s an excellent tracker. We’re giving him a set of new skills for ‘Secret Six’ as it starts again anew. But he’s very sexy, very dangerous, unpredictable.
I love new cities, and if I haven’t travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
There’s a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
When you gossip, it’s self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it’s in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.
Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that ‘many of us have a road that reaches back into our past’. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 – as he subtitles his book, the ‘Highway to the Sun’.
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn’t begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.
Trump starts out by saying, ‘We need to build walls; we need to do this.’ He’s very bombastic in what he’s saying and his approach to the world.
I personally don’t need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that’s when you really see what the movie is.
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
The Internet isn’t just itself a revolution – it sometimes starts them, too.
You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I’m the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.
One thing that happens when you’re pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there’s a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It’s really like basting a turkey with body butter.
The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we’ll be in a really great place. We’re not at that place.
Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In ‘The Hat’, Hedgie starts getting teased about his hat, and he just pretends that everything is okay. That’s the advice that my mother gave me – not to get mad and pretend that everything is okay. And it worked.
With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.
There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media – and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
It starts with your diet and then to your exercise… you have to make the right decisions as a consumer and learn about carbs and proteins as well as watching your portion control, and from there you have to stay active as much as possible.
When I dress up in costume, it always starts with the wig for me. Big wigs and big headpieces are so fun, and they give you confidence and make you feel powerful.
