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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.