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

"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."

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

"We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite."

"The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution."

"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."

"Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along."
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"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."

"Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination."

"I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late."

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well."

"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."

"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."

"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."

"It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them."
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