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I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.