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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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Personal Development
"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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Personal Development
"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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Personal Development
"In my beginning is my end."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."
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"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."
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"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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"I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality."
Nothing
"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies."
Character
"If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes."
Beginning
"The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments."
Cause
"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
Art
"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do."
Choice
"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
Character
"I write because I can't imagine not writing."
Writing
"I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom."
Writing
"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day."
Writing
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