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If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

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

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.