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I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

— Craig Roberts

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What…

— Trent Reznor

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

— Shawn Amos

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

— Tom Stoppard

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have…

— Gerhard Richter

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an…

— Langhorne Slim

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure…

— Will C. Barnes

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the…

— Anonymous

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came…

— Frankie Valli

After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other…

— Octavian Paler

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems…

— Seth Shostak

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,…

— Jonathan Raymond

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in…

— Stephen Kinzer

The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within…

— Geraldine Brooks

I've been in this game a long time, I've been knocked out before, I've had ups and downs.

— Jeremy Stephens

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're…

— Colin Trevorrow

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

— Steve Swallow

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.

— Michael Novak

If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be…

— Ben Horowitz

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

— Mikis Theodorakis

It's pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

— Rick Ross

If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.

— Paul Stamets

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

— Terry Riley

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

— Gillian Jacobs

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not…

— Paul Dano

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.

— Joel Edgerton

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just…

— Terrell Suggs

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport…

— Henry Chadwick

It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before…

— Michel Martelly

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

— Chris Owen

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

— Edward Ball

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people…

— Mike Myers

A bridegroom is a man who agrees to marriage before marriage disagrees with him.

— Vikrant Parsai

I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given…

— Julie Ann Emery

I have to really enjoy someone's personality, not just their looks, before I'll kiss them.

— Megan Fox

At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and…

— Hassan Rouhani

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you…

— Lamar Alexander

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

— Sophie Aldred