Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.
I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.
