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Beginning Quotes


"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."


"After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect."


"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."


"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"


"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."


"Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite."



"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"


"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."


"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."


"Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."


"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."


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


"We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place."


"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."


"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."


"We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation."


"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."


"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."


"The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture."


"I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning."


"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."


"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."


"Good seasons start with good beginnings."


"So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us."


"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."


"I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe."


"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed."


"Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning."


"The journey has been incredible from its beginning."


"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."


"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"


"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."


"I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation."


"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."


"He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend."
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