Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing bolder, it tore through my skin to lay flat against my outer edge. The glowing energy began to solidify against my flesh; it lengthened to mold itsel...
Lewis had said that there is no creativity in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality. I agreed. But it was only an idea. And then it took on flesh. I began to see the world more like a cook than a writer. There...
What do you know? This is where it all began,” he said. “Began?” “This is exactly where I was when I wanted to kiss you,” he whispered, his lips brushing along my neck causing me to melt under his touch. “So bad.” “Except this time th...
The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, swam in their seats. Then the serious screaming and moa...
During the crash and burn, I began to burn from cranial crown to flat sole, for meaning and understanding. Every concept, psychological perceptions with hardened pathways, everything that registered as inherited from the communal was starting to diss...
She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combinati...
And (Tirian) called out "Aslan! Aslan! Aslan! Come and help us now." But the darkness and the cold and the quietness went on just the same. "Let me be killed," cried the King. "I ask nothing for myself. But come and save all Narnia." And still there ...
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
I began to enjoy myself: being apoplectic's quite invigorating.
I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.
