All Quotes

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
‐‐ Morrissey

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
‐‐ Brother Lawrence

I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.
‐‐ Mike Pence

I began to pay attention to Scripture and meet people who walked the walk, and little by little, I guess you could call me a born again Christian. 1978 is when I found my walk with the Lord.
‐‐ Tony Orlando

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.
‐‐ Max Landis

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
‐‐ James Green Somerville

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
‐‐ Galen Rowell

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

I began to realize that, in spite of great achievements in wealth and military prowess, the great powers of Europe have not yet succeeded in providing the greatest happiness of the vast majority of the people; and that the reformers in these European countries were working hard for a new social revolution.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.
‐‐ Joseph Prince

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
‐‐ James Gray

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
‐‐ Andrew Taylor Still

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
‐‐ Roberto Cavalli

I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.
‐‐ Craig Brewer

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
‐‐ Jane Alexander

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
‐‐ Camille Pissarro

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
‐‐ Aaliyah

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
‐‐ Maurice Jarre

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
‐‐ Paul Engle

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
‐‐ Evan Hunter

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
‐‐ Bella Abzug

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.
‐‐ Samantha Barks

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
‐‐ Caleb Landry Jones

I began with track and field because this is what I know.
‐‐ Sergei Bubka

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since; I've never stopped.
‐‐ Leonard Nimoy

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
‐‐ David R. Brower

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.
‐‐ David Ignatius

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
‐‐ Christopher Darden

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes

I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur Waley's translations and Whitman and Robinson Jeffers, who have been lifelong influences on me. My father read Keats to me, and then he read more Keats while I was lying on the sofa struggling with asthma.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
‐‐ Kent Haruf

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'
‐‐ Linn Ullmann