Starting Quotes - Page 14

• The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Long Walks

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• The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Meals, Agents, Soup

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• I think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more of the mythology has crept in, and the characters are starting to bloom.

  David Giuntoli

  Character, Thinking, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, New York, Cities

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• Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

  Andrew Shue

  America, People, Effort

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• Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

  Ron Kaufman

  Strong, Today, Tomorrow

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• Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

  Andrew Strauss

  Balls, Starting Point

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• August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

  Henry Rollins

  School, August, Heat And Humidity

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• There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

  Niger Innis

  Compelling Reason, Land, America

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• Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

  Ricky Gervais

  Ordinary Extraordinary, Honest, Ordinary

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• I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

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• I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  People, Want, Flip

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

  Albert Brooks

  New Year, Years, Preparation

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• [After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.

  Dennis Hopper

  Couple, Japan, Years

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• Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.

  Eddie Cibrian

  Thinking, Down And, Way

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• We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.

  Andy Kaufman

  Keys, Community, Together

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• The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

  Alex Abreu

  Ideas, Way, Messages

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Ipods, Perfect

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Well, it's sort of funny to try and get that balance between just accepting the reality of my friend [co-star Satya Bhabha] flying in from the ceiling of the theatre and like starting to do a dance with demon hipster chicks. It's like, so how do we react when he throws fireballs? Are we surprised? Does this happen a lot?

  Alison Pill

  Stars, Hipster, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

  Planningtorock

  Classical Music, Concerts, Young

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

  Jean Nouvel

  Memories, Empathy, Vision

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• When I was nine or 10, I had jumped off of a bunk bed and shattered and dislocated my shoulder. That was on the same arm as the cast was on, which I didn't really put together until I was really starting to feel a little uncomfortable in my shoulder area, and then I was like, "Oh, this cast is on that arm. That's what that is about."

  Ashley Rickards

  Together, Bed, Arms

  "Ashley Rickards Exclusive Interview AWKWARD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

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• On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Good Night, Focus, Mind

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• The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen.

  Doug Stanhope

  Night, People, Bars

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• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  Eugene Mirman

  Night, Apples, Knowing

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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