All Quotes

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
‐‐ Dick Schaap

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
‐‐ David Del Tredici

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
‐‐ Robert Adams

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
‐‐ Ian Ziering

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.
‐‐ Min Kao

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.
‐‐ John Larroquette

I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron.
‐‐ Christine Ebersole

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
‐‐ Ivor Novello

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
‐‐ Jidenna

I began my thesis research at Harvard by working with a team in the laboratory of William N. Lipscomb, a Nobel chemistry Laureate, in 1976, on the structure of carboxypeptidase A. I did postdoctoral studies with David Blow at the MRC lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge studying chymotrypsin.
‐‐ Thomas A. Steitz

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
‐‐ Lois McMaster Bujold

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
‐‐ Ben Okri

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
‐‐ John Francis

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
‐‐ Jonathan Winters

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
‐‐ Harold Feinstein

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.
‐‐ Tom Curren

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.
‐‐ Tracy Austin

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
‐‐ Fidel Castro

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
‐‐ Ken Venturi

I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
‐‐ Michelangelo Antonioni

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
‐‐ Galen Rowell

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.
‐‐ Carmen Agra Deedy

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
‐‐ Jack Irons

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
‐‐ Shelby Foote

I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport.
‐‐ Emanuel Steward

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
‐‐ Gretchen Mol

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
‐‐ Joe Strummer

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.
‐‐ Robert Crais

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
‐‐ Mos Def

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
‐‐ Ken Burns

I began to get calls from constituents, 'Do you think you can ever get on transportation?' So when there was a vacancy created, I worked very hard to get there.
‐‐ Chuck Fleischmann