My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.
Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.
You should make a new bucket whilst you still have the old one.
Don't throw away your old shoes until you have a new pair.
An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.
Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.
