All Quotes

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.
‐‐ Kumail Nanjiani

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
‐‐ Agnes Obel

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
‐‐ Herb Kelleher

When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
‐‐ Jim Hodges

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
‐‐ Allan Sloan

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.
‐‐ James Frey

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
‐‐ Jeaniene Frost

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
‐‐ James Franco

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
‐‐ Michael Foreman

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
‐‐ Ben Marcus

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.
‐‐ Alan Moore

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
‐‐ John C. Hawkes

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
‐‐ Nicola Cornick

When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.
‐‐ Novala Takemoto

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
‐‐ John Banville

When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'
‐‐ Matthew Reilly

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
‐‐ Otis Blackwell

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
‐‐ Lynn Flewelling

When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.
‐‐ Kiesza

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
‐‐ Thomas Mars

When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
‐‐ Richard House

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
‐‐ Max Brooks

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
‐‐ Piers Anthony

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
‐‐ David Steinberg

When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.
‐‐ Mary Berry

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
‐‐ Van Morrison

When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.
‐‐ Ernie Els

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
‐‐ Abbie Cornish

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.
‐‐ Geoffrey Zakarian

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.
‐‐ George Foreman

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.
‐‐ Carmelo Anthony

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.
‐‐ Ray Lewis

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.
‐‐ Terrell Owens

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree