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Beginning Quotes


"I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more."


"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant."


"The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out."


"I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in."


"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."


"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."


"I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot."


"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."


"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."


"I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired."


"Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability."


"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."


"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."


"I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way."


"I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up."


"At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard."


"Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between."


"We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second."


"But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals."


"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday."


"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."


"But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually."


"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."


"What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on."


"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."


"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning."


"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers."


"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
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