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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance -
I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
Edie Falco
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Ian Hart -
I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
Taron Egerton -
When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
Sam Graves -
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader -
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
Young Jeezy -
I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
Daniel Boulud
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
Jack Whitehall -
What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
Mae Jemison -
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Oscar Isaac -
Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
Kaley Cuoco -
I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
Aaron Schock -
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Florence King
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I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
Odette Annable -
When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
Hailee Steinfeld
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G -
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw -
I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
J. B. Smoove -
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress