I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.
I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.
I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
