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I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I…

— Catherine Tate

I was LeBron James before LeBron James.

— Scottie Pippen

Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.

— Shikhar Dhawan

'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and…

— Bailey Chase

I've had the interim belt before and that little interim specification bothers me.

— Carlos Condit

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

— Robert Shaw

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects.…

— Jennifer Armintrout

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've…

— Ben Shahn

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

— Lauren Oliver

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna…

— Mark Ronson

Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and…

— Vint Cerf

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

— Jeff Bridges

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something…

— Tony Gilroy

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football,…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

— Paul Coffey

I'm not one of those guys who has to drop ten pounds in the week before a contest.

— Dorian Yates

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end…

— Joss Whedon

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the…

— Sean Berdy

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty…

— Robert Webb

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty,…

— Brianna Brown

I was doing space girl outfits way before Katy Perry or Gaga!

— Kate Pierson

I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that…

— Alex Turner

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to…

— Shane Filan

I've been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year…

— The Weeknd

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals.…

— Paul Conroy

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

— Les Aspin

As sportsmen, we know often the mind gives up before the body.

— Mayank Agarwal

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his…

— Michael Douglas

I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I…

— Christine Lagarde

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got…

— Adam Beach

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until…

— John Irving

I have this prominent feature on my face - I don't know if you've noticed - but, well, they're my lips. They…

— Chloe Bridges

Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.

— Rafael dos Anjos

I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.

— Steve Forbert

I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. It took me…

— Marco Chiudinelli

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it;…

— Brenda Laurel

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding…

— Sophie Marceau

You know, I'm a former federal prosecutor. Before ICE was ICE, I did a lot of cases with Customs Enforcement.

— Lori Lightfoot