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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

It is expensive to start from scratch though.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.