Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
— Heather Matarazzo
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
— Itzhak Perlman
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I have sleepless nights before press days.
— Amanda Burton
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Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten…
— J. J. Abrams
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The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
— Carol P. Christ
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I…
— Daniel Baldwin
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more…
— Stan Musial
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I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First…
— Shimon Peres
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I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer…
— Ariel Sharon
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Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
— Khaled Mashal
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Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other…
— Wallace Stegner
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know…
— Wendell Berry
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Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing…
— Wendell Berry
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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken.…
— Joe Abercrombie
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader…
— Richard Adams
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
— Dorothea Lange
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a…
— George W. Bush
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THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE…
— Jenny Holzer
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Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in…
— John Baldessari
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I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.
— Ed Koch
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I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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