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It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

I was extremely aggressive from the start.

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

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

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.