All Quotes

I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.
‐‐ Taylor Dayne

I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

I started working out with my mom in 4th grade. She used to take me to the track.
‐‐ Jessie Pavelka

I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.
‐‐ Bob Corker

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
‐‐ Emmy Rossum

I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.
‐‐ Rick Danko

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.
‐‐ Ariel Garten

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
‐‐ Dan DeCarlo

I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
‐‐ Randy Couture

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!
‐‐ Estelle

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
‐‐ Jonah Hill

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.
‐‐ Francois Gautier

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
‐‐ Alice Walker

I started writing as soon as I started reading.
‐‐ Michael Koryta

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
‐‐ Laurence Yep

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.
‐‐ Katori Hall

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'
‐‐ Kirsten Vangsness

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.
‐‐ Ntozake Shange

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
‐‐ Monica Ali

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
‐‐ Amy Hempel

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
‐‐ Natsuo Kirino

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.
‐‐ Tim Blake Nelson

I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had had several successful revue songs on Broadway.
‐‐ Sheldon Harnick

I started writing more with my voice in mind.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.
‐‐ Tori Kelly

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
‐‐ Lorde

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
‐‐ Steven Michael Quezada

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.
‐‐ Bonnie McKee

I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.
‐‐ David Sedaris