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I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

We will not know unless we begin.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.