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I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.