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"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."

"From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity."

"We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning."

"My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning."

"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

"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."

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
Explore more quotes by Richard Price

"I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly."

"The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments."

"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies."

"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."

"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."

"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."

"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."

"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."

"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."
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