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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
"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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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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Personal Development
"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."
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"So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research."
History
"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female."
Dream
"Life should be embraced like a lover."
Life
"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
Dream
"Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel."
Potential
"I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important."
Writing
"Life is not a dress rehearsal."
Life
"At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet."
Creativity
"I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland."
Beginning
"I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along."
Writing
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