Beginning Quotes
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What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.
Lois Lowry -
He is just beginning to get his feet wet. But he definitely will strike you. He's not afraid of anything.
Bret Bielema
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You can't start the next chapter of your life
Michael McMillian -
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus -
There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.
Nicholas Evans -
I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.
Andrew Hollander -
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
Rich Cohen -
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran
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The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
Karen Russell -
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.
Eric Jacobson -
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana -
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.
Jordan Gavaris -
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I've always moved back and forth between the genres. I don't really recognise that there's a significant difference between them in some senses.
George R. R. Martin
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I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.
Jose Andres -
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Twyla Tharp -
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Seneca the Younger -
All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.
Nouriel Roubini -
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
Sigmund Freud -
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
Wallace Stegner
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Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.
Edward J. Flanagan -
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?
Rick Yancey -
Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
Cathy Guisewite -
In my beginning is my end....there were Dragons when I was a boy.
Cressida Cowell