I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out before the Democrats make it mandatory.
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.
If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.
When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
The creative road is a tough one to follow. There are many bumps and detours we hit before arriving at the end of our journey
