Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.
Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.
Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.
A ... and so it is... Beauty fades away but while you have it, use it well, wear it well. It is a treasure to be spent quickly before the magic spell is broken...
Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
I always think, look at how people were before they were pregnant. If you were a toned, healthy, energetic person, most likely you will be like that again.
