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I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.