Before I Start Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are… — Richard Branson
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice… — Alton Brown
Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable -… — Artur Schnabel
Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want… — Elliott Smith
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. — Artur Schnabel
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the… — Michelangelo
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made.… — Bruce Nauman
I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure, before… — Jack Handey
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. — Robert Breault
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want… — Vincent Van Gogh
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing,… — Alice Munro
I want to know my whole story works before I start working. — Tom Schulman
And I'll know my song well before I start singing — Bob Dylan
Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the… — R L Stine
Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to… — Eric Stoltz
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. — Carol Ann Duffy
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. — Chris Cleave
I operate according to a definite, unerring law...I know the outcome before I start. — Roger McDonald
You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you. — Carlos Santana
I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being… — Stephen Sommers

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