Starting Out Quotes

• Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

  Barbara Cook

  Starting Over, People, Needs

  "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace and Jay Kernis, www.cbsnews.com. August 09, 2017.

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• He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Squares, Cafes

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Wall, Writing

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

  Bill Nighy

  Regret, Smoking, Say Anything

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• Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

  Greer Garson

  Money, Mistake, Starting Over

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

  John Mortimer

  Voice, Panic, Lifetime

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• If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, Wonder, Wrong Direction

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Huber, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

  Chris Tucker

  Black, Good Movie, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

  A. J. Cook

  Sweet, Nice, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

  Emily Kinney

  People, Acting, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10.

  Shane Black

  Writing, Broken, Next

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• It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

  Sue Wicks

  Player, Yesterday, League

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• Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

  Kristen Stewart

  Silly, Kids, Dolls

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• If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Nashville, Years

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Apr 03, 2014

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• I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

  Carol Burnett

  Stars, Two, Dancer

  "Comedian Carol Burnett dishes". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 11, 2010.

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• I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

  Steve Buscemi

  Careers, People, Done

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• When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Firsts, Starting, Concerned

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• The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Successful, Unique, People

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• Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

  Beth Ditto

  Play, Knowing, Listening

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• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Old Habits

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

  Kirk Hammett

  Temptation, Gains, Firsts

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• I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.

  Norm MacDonald

  Night, Would Be, Guests

  Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2010.

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• I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

  Helen Mirren

  Ignorant, Arrogant, London

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• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, Years, People

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• You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.

  Chris Pratt

  Thoughtful, Lines, Planning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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