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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I start where the last man left off.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.