Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn't start or would never end.
It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.
The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, “Who am I? and “Who are you?
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
It's alright! From the very beginning, I chose to take the most tough way. Consequences are meant to be. There's no way to change a thing.
Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.
Love begins with a smile Love ends with a tear I thought we're lovers forever All we had just pain and fears
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
