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Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.