"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

Beginning, End

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"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

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"In my beginning is my end."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

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"Everything started as nothing."

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

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"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

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"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing."

Men

"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."

Father

"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money."

Money

"Love is the reason you were born."

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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."

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"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."

Time

"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."

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"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."

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"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."

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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"

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