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I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

I started in this business on soap operas.

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.