All Quotes

I start nearly every day with a workout.
‐‐ Jesse Metcalfe

I start off my morning with an Acai berry smoothie. I blend the Acai berries with kefir, blueberries, protein powder and peanut butter. I like this first thing in the morning because it's light on my stomach.
‐‐ Charity Shea

I start out giving characters archetypes and parameters. Once I know the basics and have a rudimentary model, it's easier to carve unique curves and edges. It's quite easy to guess how a character is going to react if you know their background, and at a certain point, you realize you understand them personally.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.
‐‐ Daniel Johns

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.
‐‐ Sally Phillips

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.
‐‐ Anthony Warlow

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.
‐‐ David Ortiz

I start where the last man left off.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
‐‐ Kami Garcia

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
‐‐ Louis L'Amour

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
‐‐ James Gray

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.
‐‐ Sharon Draper

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
‐‐ Barry Schwartz

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.
‐‐ Susan Choi

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.
‐‐ James McNerney

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?'
‐‐ Ken Follett

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
‐‐ Max Winkler

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
‐‐ Ralph Nader

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
‐‐ Donald E. Westlake

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.
‐‐ Midge Ure

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.
‐‐ Neel Mukherjee

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
‐‐ Don Winslow

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.
‐‐ Francine Rivers

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.
‐‐ Anita Shreve

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

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.
‐‐ Joe Montana

I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.
‐‐ Sarah Mlynowski

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss

I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
‐‐ Jacqueline Carey

I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.
‐‐ Graham Moore

I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.
‐‐ James Iha

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
‐‐ Gary Sinise

I started a theater company when I was 17.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.
‐‐ Holly Madison

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.
‐‐ George Foreman